COVID-19 Leave Support Scheme

The COVID-19 Leave Support Scheme is available for employers, including self-employed people, to help pay their employees who need to self-isolate and can't work from home.

This means your employees:

can't come into work because they are in one of the affected groups and have been told to self-isolate, and
can't work from home.

The COVID-19 Leave Support scheme is paid at the rate of $600 a week for each full-time worker and $359 a week for part-time employees retained.

Find out who can get the Leave Support Scheme

Anyone who is unwell should call Healthline on 0800 611 116 or talk to their doctor or health provider. Employers should encourage their employees to do this if they're unwell.

We also have the Short-Term Absence Payment available to employers. You cannot get more than one COVID-19 payment for the same employee at the same time from us.