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Ireland: Employer Maternity Leave Policy Precedent (Irish statutory minimum) covering OML/AML, pay, antenatal time off, health and safety, breastfeeding, return, flexible working, pregnancy loss

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General

This Precedent is a comprehensive maternity policy, appropriate for inclusion in a staff handbook or to operate as a stand-alone policy. It sets out the minimum leave entitlements required by the Maternity Protection Act, 1994 (Ireland), the Maternity Protection (Amendment) Act, 2004 (as amended) (Ireland), the Adoptive Leave Acts 1995 (Ireland) and 2005 (Ireland) and the Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2023 (Ireland). When creating and applying this policy, employers should remain alert to discrimination considerations.

Maternity leave

Core entitlements include the option to take up to one year’s leave, irrespective of the employee’s length of service. This comprises up to 26 weeks’ ordinary maternity leave (OML) and up to 16 weeks’ additional maternity leave (AML). A compulsory two-week maternity leave period applies, during which the employee may not carry out any work. Maternity leave rights arise only for individuals employed under a contract of employment.

Maternity pay

Where the employee satisfies the qualifying criteria for social welfare maternity benefit (from the Department of Social Protection), up to 26 weeks of the leave can be paid. The employer may, at its discretion, supplement the difference between the social welfare benefit...

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