Hi Madi5,

I don't know for sure, but I think it would depend on your contract or award. My contract says I can't work anywhere else without getting my employer's permission first, and I think the same would probably apply if I was on maternity leave. Yours might be different though...

Are you able to discuss it with your employer? They might be refusing because the person who's taken over your position while you're on leave has a contract and they don't want to break it early, but that might mean they'd be okay with you working somewhere else until you were planning to go back originally.

Hope that made sense! Good luck with it, whatever happens.