The Paid Parental Leave Amendment Bill 2014 on Mon 2.6.2014, passed the House of Reps without amendment and now moves to the Senate.
It proposes to ease administrative burdens on business by amending the Paid Parental Leave legislation to remove the requirement for employers to provide Government funded parental leave pay to their eligible long-term employees. From 1 July 2014, employees will be paid directly by the Department of Human Services, unless an employer opts in to provide parental leave pay to its employees and an employee agrees for their employer to pay them. These amendments were originally contained in the Social Services and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2013 (which received Royal Assent on 31 March 2014) but the Government removed them from that Bill after Opposition amendments in the Senate had made changes to the amendments.
[LTN105, 3/6/14]