If you’re self-employed and an employee

If you’ve been self-employed and an employee, you cannot combine these hours to meet the work requirements for parental leave payments. You must meet the work requirements either as an employee or self-employed person.

For example, if you’ve worked for an average of 5 hours a week as an employee and 5 hours a week as a self-employed person, you will not qualify for parental leave payments.

If you’ve worked for an average of 10 hours a week as an employee and 10 hours a week as a self-employed person, you will qualify for parental leave payments as both a self-employed person and an employee. You can combine both incomes to work out how much your weekly payment will be. Your payment will be capped at the maximum amount.