Parental Leave and Employment Protection Act 1987

COVID-19 response workers - Preterm baby payments

30JM: Preterm baby payments

You could also call this:

“Special rules for COVID-19 workers getting early baby payments”

If you are a COVID-19 response worker and you’re entitled to a preterm baby payment, this section applies to you. If you temporarily go back to work for COVID-19 response work, you won’t get preterm baby payments for the time you’re working. If you got any payments for that time, you’ll have to pay them back.

But don’t worry, if you stop working before the end of your preterm baby payment period, your payments will start again when you go back on parental leave. These payments will keep going until what would have been the end of the 36th week of your pregnancy if your baby hadn’t been born early.

Remember, this only applies to COVID-19 response workers. If you’re not a COVID-19 response worker, different rules might apply to you.

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Part 3B COVID-19 response workers
Preterm baby payments

30JMPreterm baby payments

  1. This section applies (and section 71DA(5A)(a)(i) does not) to a COVID-19 response worker who is entitled to a preterm baby payment under section 71DA.

  2. If the worker temporarily returns to work for COVID-19 response work, the department must not pay preterm baby payments to the worker in relation to the period of COVID-19 response work.

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

  4. However, if the return to work finishes before the end of the preterm baby payment period, the worker’s preterm baby payments—

  5. resume on the date on which the worker resumes parental leave; and
    1. continue until the end of what would have been the 36th week of pregnancy had the child not been born prematurely.
      Notes
      • Section 30JM: inserted, on , by section 3 of the COVID-19 Response (Further Management Measures) Legislation Act 2020 (2020 No 13).