Section 47 — Parental Leave and Employment Protection Act 1987: Failure to accept employment

47 Failure to accept employment If an employee who has taken parental leave fails, without reasonable excuse, to take up, on the date specified by the employer or within 7 days thereafter, any position substantially similar to the position ordinarily held by the employee before taking parental leave that is offered to the employee by the employee's employer during the period of 26 weeks beginning with the day after the date on which the period of parental leave ends, that employee's employment shall be deemed to have been at an end as from the day on which the period of parental leave began. Compare: 1980 No 162 s 21