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No. 39 of 1998Parental Leave Bill 1998
Public bill · Government · Presented
The Parental Leave Bill 1998 would give eligible working parents up to 14 weeks’ unpaid leave per child to care for children, with limited paid emergency leave for urgent family illness or injury. It would protect employees’ jobs and workplace rights, set rules for requesting and postponing leave, and provide complaints, compensation and enforcement procedures.
Formal long title
Bill entitled an Act to implement Council Directive 96/34/EC of 3 June 1996 on the framework agreement on parental leave concluded by UNICE, CEEP and the ETUC, for that purpose to amend certain enactments and to provide for related matters
Last updated 20 November 2019
Sponsor
- Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform Primary
Progress
- First StageSeanad
- Second StageSeanad
- Committee StageSeanad
- Report StageSeanad
- Fifth StageSeanad
- Second StageDáil
- Committee StageDáil
- Report StageDáil
- Fifth StageDáil Enacted
- EnactedEnacted
Debates
- Parental Leave Bill, 1998 [ Seanad Bill amended by Dáil ] : Report and Final Stages. Seanad
- Private Members' Business. - Parental Leave Bill, 1998 [ Seanad ] : Report and Final Stages. Dáil
- Parental Leave Bill, 1998 [Seanad]: Committee Stage. SELECT COMMITTEE ON JUSTICE, EQUALITY AND WOMEN’S RIGHTS
- Parental Leave Bill, 1998 [ Seanad ] : Report of Select Committee. Dáil
- Parental Leave Bill, 1998 [ Seanad ]: Second Stage. Dáil
- Parental Leave Bill, 1998 [ Seanad ]: Second Stage (Resumed). Dáil
- Private Members' Business. - Parental Leave Bill, 1998 [ Seanad ]: Second Stage (Resumed). Dáil
- Private Members' Business. - Parental Leave Bill, 1998 [ Seanad ]: Referral to Select Committee. Dáil
- Parental Leave Bill, 1998: Committee and Remaining Stages. Seanad
- Parental Leave Bill, 1998: Order for Second Stage. Seanad
- Parental Leave Bill, 1998: Second Stage. Seanad