PART IV PROVISIONS APPLICABLE IN RELATION TO MORE THAN ONE KIND OF ABSENCE
F1Incidents of the right to return18A
1
An employee’s right to return under regulation 18(1) or (2) is a right to return—
F2a
with her seniority, pension rights and similar rights as they would have been if she had not been absent, and
b
on terms and conditions not less favourable than those which would have applied if she had not been absent.
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In the case of accrual of rights under an employment-related benefit scheme within the meaning given by Schedule 5 to the Social Security Act 1989, nothing in paragraph (1)(a) concerning the treatment of additional maternity leave shall be taken to impose a requirement which exceeds the requirements of paragraphs 5 and 6 of that Schedule.
3
The provisions F4in paragraph (1) for an employee to be treated as if she had not been absent refer to her absence—
a
if her return is from an isolated period of statutory leave, since the beginning of that period;
b
if her return is from consecutive periods of statutory leave, since the beginning of the first such period.