Bill
Fair Work Amendment (Improving Unpaid Parental Leave for Parents of Stillborn Babies and Other Measures) Bill 2020
passed, as at 2020-11-26. Industrial Relations portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Industrial Relations
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2020-09-03
- second reading — 2020-09-03
- second reading — 2020-11-09
- second reading — 2020-11-09
- third reading — 2020-11-09
- introduced — 2020-11-09
- second reading — 2020-11-09
- second reading — 2020-11-12
- second reading — 2020-11-12
- third reading — 2020-11-12
- passed — 2020-11-12
- royal assent — 2020-11-26
Divisions
No divisions recorded. Most questions are decided on the voices; this does not establish that a bill was unopposed.
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2020-09-03.
The bill would give parents who experience stillbirth or the death of a child within 24 months the same unpaid parental leave rights as parents of live babies.
It would stop employers from forcing parents on leave back to work or cancelling planned leave after a stillbirth or infant death, and allow parents to take compassionate leave in those circumstances.
Parents of premature or hospitalised newborns could pause their unpaid parental leave while the baby is in hospital, and all parents could use up to 30 days of their 12-month leave entitlement flexibly within two years of the child's birth.
- Gives parents of stillborn children the same unpaid parental leave entitlements as parents of live babies.
- Removes an employer's power to recall a parent on leave or cancel planned leave after a stillbirth or infant death.
- Allows employees on unpaid parental leave to take compassionate leave after a stillbirth or child's death.
- Lets parents of premature or hospitalised babies agree with their employer to pause unpaid parental leave while the child is hospitalised.
- Permits parents to take up to 30 days of their 12-month unpaid parental leave flexibly, including on single days, within two years of the child's birth or placement.
New parent employees who experience stillbirth, the death of a child within 24 months of life, premature birth, or birth-related hospitalisation of a newborn, and all parents using unpaid parental leave.
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