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Parental Leave and Employment Protection Act 1987

COVID-19 response workers - Parental leave payments

30JF: Application for parental leave payments after period of COVID-19 response work

You could also call this:

“How to ask for parental leave payments after doing COVID-19 work”

This section explains how you can get parental leave payments if you have done some COVID-19 response work. If you haven’t received all your parental leave payments yet, you can apply for more after you finish your COVID-19 work.

You can get these payments if you’ve already applied for parental leave payments, then temporarily went back to work for COVID-19 response, and now you want to apply for more payments.

Your temporary return to work for COVID-19 response should not be longer than 12 weeks, and it should be one continuous period. However, a Labour Inspector can decide if a longer time or more than one period is okay.

When you’re ready to go back on parental leave after your COVID-19 work, you can apply to the department for more parental leave payments. In your application, you need to tell them when you’re going back on parental leave (or when you’ve already gone back). You also need to confirm that you’re a COVID-19 response worker, that you’re applying because of COVID-19 response work, and that you haven’t received all your parental leave payments yet.

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Part 3B COVID-19 response workers
Parental leave payments

30JFApplication for parental leave payments after period of COVID-19 response work

  1. This section applies to a COVID-19 response worker who has not yet received all the parental leave payments to which the worker is entitled under—

  2. section 71D; and
    1. section 71J (as that section applies to a COVID-19 response worker in accordance with section 30JK); and
      1. section 71L (as that section applies to a COVID-19 response worker in accordance with section 30JI).

        1. The worker is entitled to parental leave payments if—

        2. the worker has applied for parental leave payments under section 71I; and
          1. the worker temporarily returns to work for COVID-19 response work; and
            1. the worker applies for payment in accordance with subsection (5).

              1. The temporary return—

              2. may not be for longer than 12 weeks (unless a Labour Inspector determines that a longer period is reasonable under section 30JS); and
                1. must be in 1 continuous period (unless a Labour Inspector determines that more than 1 period is reasonable under section 30JS).

                  1. The worker may apply to the department for parental leave payments to be paid for the period for which the worker resumes parental leave after finishing COVID-19 response work.

                  2. The application must include—

                  3. the date on which the worker will resume (or has resumed) parental leave; and
                    1. confirmation that the worker—
                      1. is a COVID-19 response worker; and
                        1. is applying in relation to COVID-19 response work; and
                          1. has not yet received all the parental leave payments referred to in subsection (1).

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