You can choose to provide Parental Leave Pay to:
- long term employees
- eligible employees including those who you haven't employed for at least 12 months
- employees who will get less than 8 weeks of Parental Leave Pay.
You and your employee must agree for this to happen.
You can nominate an opt in date and provide Parental Leave Pay to eligible employees who submit a claim from that date.
Your employee can submit their claim for Parental Leave Pay up to 3 months in advance. For you to provide Parental Leave Pay to an eligible employee, you must opt in before the employee’s claim is submitted.
To be ready to provide Parental Leave Pay, you will need to register online.
If you’ve registered online, you may have already opted in to provide Parental Leave Pay as part of this process.
To opt-in, or update this choice, follow these steps:
- Access Business Hub through PRODA
- Select Organisation profile
- Select an Organisation Service Account
- Select Opt in to provide Parental Leave Pay
- Select the type of employees you want to provide Parental Leave Pay to
- Tell us the total number of employees your business has.