S.L. 331.7 Art. 11AEntitlement.

In accordance with the provisions of the Adoption Leave

National Standard Order, an employee on adoption leave shall be entitled to the first fourteen weeks of adoption leave with full wages but if the employee chooses to avail himself of any additional adoption leave beyond the fourteen weeks, the employer shall not be obliged to pay any wages for those weeks of adoption leave which go beyond the aforementioned fourteen weeks, without prejudice to any relevant benefit in respect of any period of adoption leave which goes beyond fourteen weeks in terms of the Social Security Act to which the employee may be entitled if he chooses to avail himself of adoption leave beyond the paid fourteen weeks.