Queensland Consolidated Acts

INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS ACT 2016 - SECT 63

63 Employee notice—intention of pregnant employee to take birth-related leave

(1) This section applies if a pregnant employee wants to take birth-related leave.

(2) The employee must give the employer—

(a) at least 10 weeks written notice of intention to take the leave; and

(b) at least 4 weeks written notice of the dates on which the employee wants to start and end the leave.

(3) The employee must, before starting the leave, give the employer—

(a) if required by the employer—sufficient evidence to satisfy a reasonable person that the employee is pregnant and the expected date of birth; and

(b) a statutory declaration by the employee stating the period of any parental leave sought by the employee’s spouse.

(4) Without limiting subsection (3) (a) , the employer may require the evidence to be a health practitioner’s certificate confirming the matters mentioned in that subsection.