Commonwealth Repealed Acts

This legislation has been repealed.

WORKPLACE RELATIONS ACT 1996 - SECT 249

             (1)  This section applies to an employee if, at a particular time, the employee:

                     (a)  is employed by an employer; and

                     (b)  for a continuous period of at least 12 months immediately before the time, has been in continuous service with the employer.

             (2)  The employee is not entitled to take paid carer's leave from his or her employment with the employer at the time if, during the period of 12 months ending at the time, the employee has already taken a total amount of paid carer's leave from that employment of 1 / 26 of the nominal hours worked by the employee for the employer during that period.

Example:    An employee whose nominal hours worked for an employer each week were 38 hours during a 12 month period of continuous service with the employer would not be entitled to take any paid carer's leave from his or her employment with the employer if the employee had, during the period, already taken 76 hours paid carer's leave (which amounted to 10 days paid carer's leave for that employee) from that employment.