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Parental Leave and Employment Protection Act 1987

COVID-19 response workers - Subsequent children

30JP: Subsequent parental leave payments

You could also call this:

“Special rules for COVID-19 workers getting more baby money”

If you’re a COVID-19 response worker, you can get parental leave payments for a new baby even if you’ve had them before. You just need to wait 6 months after the time you would have finished getting payments for your last baby. This is different from the usual rule that says you can’t get payments again within 6 months of actually getting them last time.

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Part 3B COVID-19 response workers
Subsequent children

30JPSubsequent parental leave payments

  1. Section 71F(a) does not apply to a COVID-19 response worker if a period of 6 months has elapsed after the end of the period for which the worker would have received a parental leave payment (but for the COVID-19 response work).

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