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Parental Leave and Employment Protection Act 1987

COVID-19 response workers - Parental leave payments

30JK: Payment need not relate to 1 continuous period

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“COVID-19 workers can split their parental leave payments into different chunks”

If you are a COVID-19 response worker, you can get parental leave payments in more than one period. This is different from the usual rule that says payments must be for one continuous period. However, the total time you get paid for cannot be longer than the maximum time allowed by the law. When the law talks about ‘a period’ for payments, it now means ‘periods’ for COVID-19 response workers.

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Part 3B COVID-19 response workers
Parental leave payments

30JKPayment need not relate to 1 continuous period

  1. The requirement in sections 71DA(2) and 71J that payment be made for 1 continuous period does not apply to a COVID-19 response worker and instead there may be more than 1 period.

  2. However, the periods must not together exceed the maximum period for which payments are payable under section 71DA(2) or 71J.

  3. This Act applies accordingly so that references to a period during which payments are payable must be read as references to periods.

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