Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2020A00105:clause:2_72a:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2020A00105
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 2 cl 72A (pt 2/2)
Character Range: 19573–21007

if the employee is to take unpaid parental leave under another provision of this Division, the leave must be taken before the employee takes the flexible unpaid parental leave.

Members of employee couples
 (9) A member of an employee couple (the first employee) may take flexible unpaid parental leave on the same day as the other member of the couple (the other employee) is taking unpaid parental leave only if the total of all periods of unpaid parental leave the first employee takes at the same time as the other employee is no longer than 8 weeks.
Note: The unpaid parental leave making up the first employee's total could be leave the first employee has taken under section 72 (including concurrent leave) or flexible unpaid parental leave.

Multiple births
 (10) An employee is not entitled to take flexible unpaid parental leave in relation to a child if:
 (a) the child and another child:
 (i) are born during the same multiple birth; or
 (ii) are both placed with the employee for adoption and have the same day of placement; and
 (b) the employee takes flexible unpaid parental leave in relation to the other child.

Interaction with sections 71 and 72
 (11) Flexible unpaid parental leave taken by an employee is an exception to the rules in sections 71 and 72 about:
 (a) taking the employee's unpaid parental leave in a single continuous period; and
 (b) when the employee's period of unpaid parental leave must start.