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Protection of employees from penalisation
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22. (1) An employer shall not penalise, or threaten penalisation of, an employee for proposing to exercise or having exercised his or her entitlement to paternity leave.
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(2) For the purposes of this section, penalisation of an employee includes—
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(a) dismissal, or the threat of dismissal, of the employee,
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(b) unfair treatment of the employee, including selection for redundancy, and
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(c) an unfavourable change in the terms or conditions of employment of the employee.
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(3) If a penalisation of an employee, in contravention of subsection (1), constitutes a dismissal of the employee, as referred to in subsection (2)(a), the employee may institute proceedings under the Act of 1977 in respect of that dismissal.
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