New South Wales Consolidated Acts

INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS ACT 1996 - SECT 57

57 Length of service for eligibility

(1) An employee is entitled to parental leave only if the employee has had at least 12 months of continuous service with the employer.

(2) Continuous service is service under one or more unbroken contracts of employment, including--

(a) any period of authorised leave or absence, and

(b) any period of part-time work.

(3) However, in the case of a casual employee--

(a) the employee is entitled to parental leave only if the employee has had at least 12 months of continuous service with the employer as a regular casual employee (or partly as a regular casual employee and partly as a full-time or part-time employee), and

(b) continuous service is work for an employer on an unbroken regular and systematic basis (including any period of authorised leave or absence).

Note : Under Part 8 of this Chapter a period of service in the business of a former employer counts as service with a new employer to whom the business concerned has been transferred.