Jim Chalmers (Rankin, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary to the Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Hansard source

I refer the parliamentary secretary to his earlier response about paid parental leave, and again I quote The Canberra Times article:

The key Department of the Prime and Cabinet says it simply does not know what to do about its workforce's paid parental leave entitlements in the wake of the bombshell announcement in May's budget.

Until there is an agreed position across the public service, which was singled out and accused of "double-dipping" in an attempt to sell the policy, everything is up in the air.

Can he respond to this assertion in the article? Can the parliamentary secretary confirm that his colleagues in the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet have absolutely no idea how to implement the government's policy on paid parental leave?

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