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Parental Leave and Employment Protection Act 1987

COVID-19 response workers - Parental leave payments

30JG: COVID-19 response worker must notify temporary return to work if receiving payment

You could also call this:

“Tell the government if you do COVID-19 work while getting parental payments”

If you are a COVID-19 response worker and you are getting parental leave payments or preterm baby payments, you need to tell the department if you go back to work for a short time to do COVID-19 response work. You don’t have to use the usual way of telling them about going back to work. Instead, you can let them know at the same time as you ask for your payments to start again after you finish your temporary work. This rule is different from the usual rule about telling the department when you go back to work.

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Part 3B COVID-19 response workers
Parental leave payments

30JGCOVID-19 response worker must notify temporary return to work if receiving payment

  1. A COVID-19 response worker must notify the department under this section and not under section 71U(1) if, during the period for which the worker is receiving a parental leave payment or preterm baby payment, the worker temporarily returns to work for COVID-19 response work.

  2. The worker may notify at the same time as the worker applies under section 30JF for payments to resume after the temporary return to work.

  3. This section overrides the obligation in section 71U(1) for the worker to notify the department of the worker’s return to work.

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