New Zealand Acts

PARENTAL LEAVE AND EMPLOYMENT PROTECTION ACT 1987 - SECT 38

38 Employer's notice in relation to return to work and preference for appointment

Within 21 days after the beginning of an employee's parental leave, the employer of the employee shall give to the employee written notice stating—

a) the date on which the employee's parental leave will end; and

b) either—

i) where the employer is able to keep the employee's position open until the end of the employee's parental leave, the date on which, if the employee decides to return to work at the end of the parental leave, the employee will be required to return to work, being the date of the next working day after the date on which the employee's parental leave ends; or

ii) in any other case, the period of 26 weeks during which the employer will give the employee preference over other applicants for any position which is vacant and which is substantially similar to the position held by the employee at the beginning of the employee's parental leave; and

c) where paragraph (b)(i) applies, the employee's obligations under section 39 ; and

d) the employee's rights under section 45 .

Note: 1980 No 162 s 17