Section 18 applies to employees who return to work on the expiry of protective leave and are offered suitable alternative work, as the resumption of the work which they carried out before their protective leave is not practicable. In such a case, the terms or conditions of the alternative work shall not be less favourable to the employee than those of her contract of employment immediately before protective leave. Employees in this position are also entitled to any improvement in the terms or conditions of the employment to which she or he would have been entitled if she or he had not been absent on protective leave. This section gives effect to the 2002 Gender Equal Treatment Directive. The remaining sections in the Bill deal with technical amendments to the 1994 Act.