Paid Parental Leave Act 2010

A person performs qualifying work on a day if at least one of the following applies on the day:

the person performs at least one hour of paid work;

the person takes a period of paid leave of at least one hour;

the day is a flexible PPL day for a previous child of the person and parental leave pay was payable to the person on that day;

the day is in a jobkeeper payment period for the person;

the day is in a COVID‑19 Australian Government payment period for the person.

For the purposes of paragraph (1)(b), the PPL rules may prescribe what is, or is not, taken to be paid leave.

A jobkeeper payment period for a person is a period for which:

an employer of the person is entitled to one or more jobkeeper payments for the person; or

the person themselves is entitled to one or more jobkeeper payments.

A jobkeeper payment is a payment that:

is payable by the Commonwealth in accordance with rules made under the Coronavirus Economic Response Package (Payments and Benefits) Act 2020; and

is known as jobkeeper payment.

A COVID‑19 Australian Government payment period for a person is a period for which the person is entitled to a COVID‑19 Australian Government payment.

A COVID‑19 Australian Government payment is:

a payment or grant of financial assistance covered by item 492 of the table in Part 4 of Schedule 1AB to the Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Regulations 1997; or

a payment or grant of financial assistance by the Commonwealth that is prescribed by the PPL rules for the purposes of this paragraph.