Maternity Protection of Employees Act, 1981
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Notification of intention to return to work. |
22.—(1) Entitlement to return to work in accordance with section 20 or to be offered suitable alternative employment under section 21 shall be subject to an employee who has been absent from work while on maternity leave or additional maternity leave in accordance with this Act having, not later than four weeks before the date on which she expects to return to work, notified in writing (or caused to be so notified) her employer or, where she is aware of a change of ownership of the undertaking concerned, the successor, of her intention to return to work and of the date on which she expects to return to work. | |
(2) A notification under subsection (1) shall subsequently be confirmed in writing not earlier than four weeks and not later than two weeks before the date on which the employee concerned expects to return to work. |