Queensland Consolidated Acts

INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS ACT 2016 - SECT 61

61 Entitlement to surrogacy leave

(1) An employee who is an intended parent under a surrogacy arrangement is entitled to—

(a) a total 8 weeks unpaid short surrogacy leave; or

(b) an unbroken period of up to 52 weeks unpaid long surrogacy leave.

(2) The employee’s short surrogacy leave—

(a) if the employee’s spouse is taking long surrogacy leave—may be taken concurrently with the employee’s spouse’s long surrogacy leave; and

(b) may be taken in an unbroken period or broken periods; and

(c) if the employee takes short surrogacy leave other than immediately after the employee’s surrogate child starts residing with the employee—must be for a minimum 2-week period.