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Parental Leave and Employment Protection Act 1987

COVID-19 response workers

30JE: COVID-19 response work day is not keeping-in-touch day

You could also call this:

“Working during COVID-19 doesn't count as a normal work day during parental leave”

When you do COVID-19 response work for a day, it doesn’t count as a keeping-in-touch day. This means if you’re on parental leave and you do some work related to the COVID-19 response, it won’t affect your parental leave arrangement in the same way a regular keeping-in-touch day would.

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Part 3B COVID-19 response workers

30JECOVID-19 response work day is not keeping-in-touch day

  1. A day of COVID-19 response work is not a keeping-in-touch day.

Notes
  • Section 30JE: inserted, on , by section 3 of the COVID-19 Response (Further Management Measures) Legislation Act 2020 (2020 No 13).