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Parental Leave and Employment Protection Act 1987

COVID-19 response workers - Parental leave payments

30JJ: Primary carer leave need not be for 1 continuous period

You could also call this:

“You can take your primary carer leave in parts if you're a COVID-19 worker”

You don’t have to take all your primary carer leave at once if you’re a COVID-19 response worker. You can split it up into different periods. However, the total time you take for all these periods can’t be more than the maximum time allowed in section 9. When the law talks about a ‘period of leave’, it now means ‘periods’ for COVID-19 response workers.

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Part 3B COVID-19 response workers
Parental leave payments

30JJPrimary carer leave need not be for 1 continuous period

  1. The requirement in section 9 that primary carer leave be taken in 1 continuous period does not apply to a COVID-19 response worker and instead there may be more than 1 period of primary carer leave.

  2. However, the periods must not together exceed the maximum period allowed under section 9.

  3. This Act applies accordingly so that references to a period of leave must be read as references to periods.

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