How the scheme works

If you’re an employer, we’ll pay you under the Paid Parental Leave scheme so you can support your employee while they care for a newborn or recently adopted child.

It’s up to your employee to apply for Parental Leave Pay through us and work out their leave arrangements with you.

As an employer, if your employee wants to apply for Parental Leave Pay, you’ll need to register for the Paid Parental Leave scheme.

Once your employee has lodged a Parental Leave Pay claim with us, we’ll work out if they’re eligible. We’ll tell you if you have to provide Parental Leave Pay to your employee. You don’t need to pay your employee Parental Leave Pay until you get the payment from us.

Page last updated: 4 May 2026.
QC 48886