The Employment Rights (Northern Ireland) Order 1996

Contractual rights to return

117.—(1) An employee who has both the right to return to work conferred by Article 111 and another right to return to work after absence because of pregnancy or childbirth (under a contract of employment or otherwise) may not exercise the two rights separately but may, in returning to work, take advantage of whichever right is, in any particular respect, the more favourable.

(2) Articles 111 and 113 to 116, and the provisions of the following Parts of this Order relating to the right conferred by Article 111 (other than Article 172(2)), apply, subject to any modifications necessary to give effect to any more favourable contractual terms, to the exercise of the composite right described in paragraph (1) as they apply to the exercise of the right conferred by Article 111.