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STAND-INS FOR PARENTAL LEAVE CAN BE HIRED ON SHORT-TERM CONTRACTS
In an interpretation of the Gender Equality in Employment Law (GEEL), issued on 12 April 2002, the Council of Labor Affairs (CLA) stated that where an employee to whom the Labor Standards Law (LSL) applies requests unpaid parental leave under the GEEL, and the em-ployer engages substitute personnel to perform that employee's original duties, then under Arti-cle 9 of the LSL and Article 6 of the LSL En-forcement Rules, the employer may enter into fixed-term contracts with such personnel, be-cause the nature of the substitute personnel's work is to deputize for the absent employee during the period of the parental leave.