S.C.E.
NOTICES OF AMENDMENTS
given up to and including
Thursday 11th February 1999
Mr Ian McCartney
That, during proceedings on the Employment Relations Bill, the Committee do meet, with effect from Tuesday 23rd February, on Tuesdays at half-past Ten o'clock and half-past Four o'clock and on Thursdays at half-past Two o'clock, except that the Committee shall not meet on Thursday 11th March.
STANDING COMMITTEE E
EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS BILL
NOTE
The Amendments have been arranged in accordance with the Order to be proposed by Mr Ian McCartney.
Mr Ian McCartney
To move, That the Bill be considered in the following order: Clauses 8 to 10, Schedule 3, Clauses 11 to 15, Clauses 17 to 26, Schedule 4, Clause 1, Schedule 1, Clause 2, Schedule 2, Clauses 3 to 7, Clause 16, Clauses 27 to 35, Schedule 5, Clauses 36 to 38, new Clauses, new Schedules.
Mr David Chidgey
Mr Brian Cotter
2
Schedule 3, page 53, line 6, leave out from first 'to' to end of line 35, and insert 'leave from his or her employment for urgent family reasons, owing to the injury or illness of any of the persons listed in subsection (3) below, provided that entitlement to time off for such domestic incidents is limited to circumstances where the immediate presence of the employee, at the place where the ill or injured person is situated, is indispensable.
(2) During an absence in order to deal with a domestic incident an employee is to be regarded as being in the employment of the employer, and retains all of his or her employment rights.
(3) The persons referred to above in subsection (1) are—
(a) a child or adoptive child of the employee;
(b) the spouse of the employee, or a person with whom the employee is living as husband or wife;
(c) a person in relation to whom the employee is in loco parentis;
(d) a brother or sister of the employee.
(4) As soon as reasonably practicable after his or her return to work after an absence to deal with a domestic incident, an employee must confirm to his or her employer that he or she has taken the leave.
(5) An employee may not be absent to deal with a domestic incident for more than 3 days in any 12 consecutive months, or 5 days in any 36 consecutive months.
(6) For the purpose of subsection (5), absence for part of a day is to be counted as one day's leave entitlement.'.
Mr Tim Boswell
Mr Tim Collins
1
Page 1, line 6, leave out Clause 1.
