Seanad debates
Wednesday, 2 June 2004
Adoptive Leave Bill 2004: Committee Stage (Resumed).
11:00 am
Joanna Tuffy (Labour)
I move amendment No. 11:
In page 12, to delete lines 27 and 28 and substitute "accordance with that section.'.".
We tabled this amendment because there appears to be a strange anomaly in the section which prohibits dismissal of an employee on adoptive leave in circumstances where the purported notice of dismissal expires after the employee's absence. However, it does not expressly deal with the situation where the notice of dismissal expires during the employee's absence. We feel that this ambiguity could best be taken care of by deleting the condition that the notice has to expire after the absence. I would like to hear the Minister of State's response.
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