Bill
Fair Work Amendment (Baby Priya’s) Bill 2025
passed, as at 2025-11-06. Employment and Workplace Relations portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Employment and Workplace Relations
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2025-10-09
- second reading — 2025-10-09
- second reading — 2025-10-28
- other — 2025-10-29
- second reading — 2025-10-29
- second reading — 2025-10-29
- other — 2025-10-29
- third reading — 2025-10-29
- introduced — 2025-11-03
- second reading — 2025-11-03
- second reading — 2025-11-03
- second reading — 2025-11-03
- committee — 2025-11-03
- third reading — 2025-11-03
- passed — 2025-11-03
- royal assent — 2025-11-06
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 2025-10-09.
The bill would change the Fair Work Act 2009 to implement a government promise that employers cannot end paid parental leave they fund when a worker's baby is stillborn or passes away.
It would add a rule that, unless both sides explicitly agree otherwise, such leave cannot be withdrawn in those circumstances, covering surrogacy and adoption cases as well.
The bill would not force employers to offer this leave if they do not already, and the explanatory memorandum does not specify a start date or any figures.
- The bill would amend the Fair Work Act 2009 to introduce the new principle.
- It would prevent cancellation of employer-funded paid parental leave due to stillbirth or death, unless agreed otherwise.
- It would extend clarity to surrogacy and adoption arrangements.
- It would not create new obligations for employers without existing leave provisions.
Parents whose child is stillborn or dies, and employers who provide paid parental leave.
Sources
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