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Parental Leave and Employment Protection Act 1987

Interpretation

2AC: Multiple employments of teachers

You could also call this:

“Teachers with multiple school jobs: How parental leave works for you”

If you’re a teacher working in more than one State school or integrated school within a 12-month period (or 6-month period), this law treats all those jobs as one job when figuring out your parental leave rights and benefits. This applies whether you work at these schools at the same time or one after the other.

The law defines some important terms for you to know:

A “board” is a group set up to run a school, as described in the Education and Training Act 2020.

An “integrated school” is the same as a “State integrated school” in the Education and Training Act 2020.

“State school” and “teacher” are defined the same way as in the Education and Training Act 2020.

This rule is more important than another rule called “section 2A” when it comes to parental leave for teachers.

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2ACMultiple employments of teachers

  1. For the purposes of determining the entitlement of a teacher to rights and benefits in respect of parental leave, if, during a 12-month period (or 6-month period as the case may be), the teacher is employed by more than 1 board to work in more than 1 State school or integrated school (whether concurrently or consecutively), those employments must be treated as 1 employment.

  2. In subsection (1),—

    board means a board constituted under subpart 5 of Part 3 of the Education and Training Act 2020

      integrated school has the same meaning as State integrated school in section 10(1) of the Education and Training Act 2020

        State school and teacher have the same meanings as in section 10(1) of the Education and Training Act 2020.

        1. This section overrides section 2A.

        Notes
        • Section 2AC: inserted, on , by section 8 of the Parental Leave and Employment Protection Amendment Act 2004 (2004 No 89).
        • Section 2AC heading: amended, on , by section 46 of the Parental Leave and Employment Protection (Paid Parental Leave for Self-Employed Persons) Amendment Act 2006 (2006 No 20).
        • Section 2AC(1): amended, on , by section 668 of the Education and Training Act 2020 (2020 No 38).
        • Section 2AC(1): amended, on , by section 9 of the Parental Leave and Employment Protection Amendment Act 2016 (2016 No 8).
        • Section 2AC(2): replaced, on , by section 668 of the Education and Training Act 2020 (2020 No 38).