Paid Parental Leave and Other Legislation Amendment (Dad and Partner Pay and Other Measures) Act 2012 (109 of 2012)

Schedule 2   Other amendments

Part 2   Amendments commencing the day after Royal Assent

Paid Parental Leave Act 2010

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Note 1: Performance of work on keeping in touch days is also dealt with, for the purposes of unpaid parental leave, in section 79A of the Fair Work Act 2009.

Note 2: The employer will be obliged, under the relevant contract of employment or industrial instrument, to pay the employee for performing work on a keeping in touch day.

Note 3: Section 344 of the Fair Work Act 2009 prohibits the exertion of undue influence or undue pressure on the person in relation to a decision by the person whether to consent to performing work on keeping in touch days: see subsection 79A(3) of that Act.

Note 4: That section, and section 343 of that Act, contain other prohibitions on coercion and undue influence or pressure.