All Topics

• What are your employees’ parental leave entitlements?
  Parental leave is an employee’s entitlement to time off work to care for a child.

• Paid parental leave entitlements
  Your employees may be entitled to paid parental leave through a number ways.

• What is the PPL scheme?
  The Federal Government’s PPL scheme provides employees with payment for leave for up to 18 weeks at the national minimum wage rate.

• How is PPL paid?
  If your employee is eligible for PPL, you will receive funding from the Federal Government to make the leave payments.

• Checklist: Is your employee eligible for the PPL scheme?
  To be eligible for the scheme, an employee must meet all the following criteria.

• How does PPL affect other payments for families?
  PPL affects an employee’s eligibility to receive other family payments in a number of ways.

• Are PPL entitlements transferable?
  If a primary carer returns to work before receiving all of their PPL entitlements, they may be able to transfer the unused entitlements to another eligible primary carer, e.g. the father of the child if the primary carer is the...

• Does PPL affect other parental leave entitlements?
  PPL is separate to any existing paid parental leave obligations you have, and to any paid annual or long service leave obligations in other employment instruments.

• What is the DAPP scheme?
  While PPL is payment for the primary carer of the child, DAPP is payment for the parent who is not the primary carer or the birth mother.

• Entitlements upon return to work from unpaid parental leave
  After a period of parental leave, an employee is entitled to return to the same job they had before they went on leave.

loading more topics

load more