• Table of Contents
• Foreword
• 1. Australia’s Paid Parental Leave scheme at a glance
• 2. Why Australia needs a Paid Parental Leave scheme
• 3. What Paid Parental Leave will achieve
• 4. Key outcomes of the Productivity Commission inquiry
• 5. Paid Parental Leave eligibility
• 6. The financial benefits for new parents
• 7. Claiming Paid Parental Leave
• 8. The role of employers
• 9. Interaction with existing leave entitlements
• 10. Implementation
• 11. Government changes to the Productivity Commission’s scheme
• 12. Review and evaluation
• 13. Further information
• Appendix

Australia’s Paid Parental Leave Scheme

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10. Implementation

The PPL scheme will be available to parents for births and adoptions that occur on or after 1 January 2011.

Parents will be able to lodge PPL claims from 1 October 2010, so employees can make leave and pay arrangements with their employers before they start leave prior to the expected birth or adoption from 1 January 2011.

Development and implementation of the scheme will begin immediately. Further consultation, in particular with business organisations, employers and unions, will occur during the second half of 2009.

It is expected that legislation for the scheme will be introduced to Parliament in 2010.

The information in this booklet outlines the Government’s policy for a Paid Parental Leave scheme, noting that details will be finalised over the coming year as part of the consultation process. Full information for parents, employers and the community about how the scheme will operate, including guidelines for the program, will be available from July 2010.

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