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Parental Leave and Employment Protection Act 1987

COVID-19 response workers - Remuneration and holiday pay for COVID-19 response workers

30JN: Remuneration and holiday pay for COVID-19 response workers

You could also call this:

“COVID-19 response work: pay and holidays for parental leave workers”

If you are a COVID-19 response worker and you temporarily go back to work to help with the COVID-19 response, this doesn’t count as returning to work under section 42(2)(c) of the law.

When it comes to your holiday pay, if you do any COVID-19 response work, a special rule applies. The amount of holiday pay you get for the time you spent doing COVID-19 response work will be calculated using section 21(2) of the Holidays Act 2003.

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Part 3B COVID-19 response workers
Remuneration and holiday pay for COVID-19 response workers

30JNRemuneration and holiday pay for COVID-19 response workers

  1. A temporary return to work by a COVID-19 response worker for COVID-19 response work is not a return to work for the purposes of section 42(2)(c).

  2. Section 21(2) of the Holidays Act 2003 must be used to calculate an employee’s holiday pay entitlements in respect of any portion of annual holidays that relates to a period of COVID-19 response work.

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