Australia Paid Parental Leave Amendment New Legislation Enacted Authors: Naomi Seddon, Shareholder, and Xi (Grace) Yang, Of Counsel – Littler Australia has amended its Paid Parental Leave law in order to make the leave more accessible, flexible, and gender neutral. Effective July 1, 2023, employees will be able to combine the 18 weeks of paid parental leave to which they are entitled with the two weeks available for Dad and Partner Pay. Parents who are single at the time of their claim can access the full 20 weeks. Partnered employees can claim a maximum of 20 weeks’ pay between them, with two weeks per claimant reserved on a “use it or lose it” basis. In addition, under the amended law, the primary claimant of parental leave pay is not required to be the birth parent. This will allow families to decide who will claim first and how they will share the entitlement.
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