Legal Notice 62 of 2020 came into force on the 13th March, 2020, amending the Minimum Special Leave Entitlement Regulations to provide for the following definition of quarantine leave:
“quarantine leave” means leave to be granted to the employee without loss of wages in such cases where the employee is legally obliged to abide by a quarantine order confining the employee to a certain area or to certain premises as determined by the Superintendent of Public Health under the Public Health Act or by any public authority under any other law;”.
The Legal Notice further provides that “every employee shall on employment, be entitled to be granted by his employer quarantine leave for any period of quarantine as may be determined by the Superintendent of Public Health or by any other public authority.”