S.L. 452.111 Art. 6Rights.

(1) When an employee is on adoption leave, the employee shall be deemed to have been in the employment of the employer and during any such absence he shall be entitled to all rights and benefits which may accrue to other employees of the same class or category of employment at the same place of work, including the right to apply for promotion opportunities at his place of work.

(2) During the leave referred to in the previous sub-article, the employee shall have no right to any bonus or allowance related to performance or production.

(3) The employee shall, on the termination of the adoption leave to which he is entitled under the provisions of this order, be entitled to resume work in the post he occupied on the commencement of the adoption leave, or in an analogous post if at the time when he becomes so entitled the post he formerly occupied is no longer available.

(4) An employee who intends to or avails himself of adoption leave in terms of this order shall not be dismissed by the employer by reason of the intention or availing himself of such adoption leave.

(5) When an employee intends to avail himself of adoption leave in terms of this order during his probationary period, the probationary period shall be suspended on the day of the start of the adoption leave and shall resume when the employee returns to work after the adoption leave.