WRC finds that employee was wrongly denied force majeure leave after she stayed at home to care for child with chickenpox

Section 13(1) of the Parental Leave Act, 1998 defines force majeure leave as follows:

‘an employee shall be entitled to leave with pay from his or her employment, to be known and referred to in this Act as ‘force majeure leave’, where, for urgent family reasons, owing to an injury to or the illness of a person specified in subsection (2), the immediate presence of the employee at the place where the person is, whether at his or her home or elsewhere, is indispensable.’