Queensland Consolidated Acts

INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS ACT 2016 - SECT 71

71 Employer to advise about parental leave entitlements

(1) Subsection (2) applies to an employer on becoming aware—

(a) an employee or an employee’s spouse is pregnant; or

(b) an employee is adopting a child; or

(c) an employee is an intended parent under a surrogacy arrangement; or

(d) an employee is a cultural parent who is applying for a cultural recognition order.

(2) The employer must inform the employee of—

(a) the employee’s parental leave entitlement under this division; and

(b) the employee’s obligations to notify the employer of any matter under this division.

(3) An employer can not rely on an employee’s failure to give a notice or other document required by this division unless the employer establishes that subsection (2) has been complied with.