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Q: Do both parents need to complete 12 months continuous service to be eligible for Shared Paid Parental Leave?

Answer:

To be eligible for Shared Parental Leave you must:
-Be part of an employee couple (an employee couple is defined as two employees that are either the spouse or de facto partner of the other); and
-Both be on a fixed-term or continuing contracts of employment (this provision does not apply to casuals); and
-Have both been employed by the University for a continuous period of no less than one year.

Clause 4.4 Parental Leave of the Enterprise Agreement sets out the eligibility criteria for this entitlement. This can be found at the following link:

http://www.adelaide.edu.au/hr/conditions/ea/parental_leave/

This record last updated Tuesday, 1 May 2012 by Sasha MacGillivray