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This is a draft item of legislation. This draft has since been made as a UK Statutory Instrument: The Carer’s Leave Regulations 2024 No. 251
9.—(1) An employee who takes carer’s leave is, during any period of that leave—
(a)entitled to the benefit of all the terms and conditions of employment which would have applied if the employee had not been absent, and
(b)bound by any obligations arising under those terms and conditions of employment which would have applied, subject to the exception in section 80K(1)(b) of the 1996 Act.
(2) In paragraph (1)(a) “terms and conditions” has the meaning given to it by section 80K(3) of the 1996 Act and accordingly does not include terms and conditions about remuneration.
(3) For the purposes of section 80K of the 1996 Act, only sums payable to an employee by way of wages or salary are to be treated as remuneration.
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