Coronavirus Economic Response Package Omnibus (Measures No. 2) Act 2020 (38 of 2020)

Schedule 2   Payment Acts consequential amendments

Part 2   Paid Parental Leave

Paid Parental Leave Act 2010

21   After section 35A

Insert:

35B Hours of qualifying work on a day in a jobkeeper payment period

(1) For the purposes of step 5 of the method statement in section 32, if a person performs qualifying work on a day because the day is in a jobkeeper payment period for the person, the person is taken to have performed on that day the number of hours of work determined in accordance with the PPL rules.

(2) Subsection (1) has effect:

(a) even if the person also performs qualifying work on that day because of paragraph 34(1)(a), (b), (c) or (d); and

(b) despite section 35A.