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Parental Leave and Employment Protection Act 1987

COVID-19 response workers - Parental leave payments

30JH: No payments in relation to period of COVID-19 response work

You could also call this:

“No parental leave money while doing COVID-19 work”

If you are a COVID-19 response worker, you cannot receive parental leave payments or preterm baby payments for the time you are doing COVID-19 response work. The government department in charge will not give you these payments for that period.

If you have already received any of these payments for the time you were doing COVID-19 response work, you will need to pay them back. The government can recover this money from you because it is considered an overpayment.

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Part 3B COVID-19 response workers
Parental leave payments

30JHNo payments in relation to period of COVID-19 response work

  1. The department must not pay parental leave payments or preterm baby payments to a COVID-19 response worker in relation to the period of COVID-19 response work.

  2. Any payments received by the worker in respect of that period are recoverable under section 71X as an overpayment.

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