Annual leave
This sets out your employee's entitlement to annual leave in your employment contract.
Annual leave clause
You are entitled to 4 weeks of paid annual leave each year, based on your ordinary hours of work per week.
We will provide any applicable annual leave loading entitlements in accordance with your award.
Annual leave accumulates during the year. Any unused annual leave will roll over from year to year.
Parental leave
Your employee may be entitled to 12 months of unpaid parental leave after working for you for a year.
Parental leave clause
After you have been working for us for 12 months or more, you are entitled to take unpaid parental leave from your position for 12 months.
You may also:
- request up to an extra 12 months of unpaid leave
- be entitled to Parental Leave Pay from the Australian Government, administered by Services Australia.
Additional parental leave
You can choose whether to provide additional paid leave (on top of the above parental leave) as an incentive.
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Include Additional parental leave
In addition to the above parental leave, we will provide you with [number] week(s) paid parental leave.
Personal/carer's leave
This sets out your employee's entitlement to personal and carer's leave in your employment contract. Casual employees are entitled to unpaid carer’s leave.
Personal/carer's leave clause
You are entitled to 10 days paid personal/carer's leave (pro-rata for part-time employees) per year based on your ordinary hours of work. This is calculated as 1/26 of your ordinary hours of work in a year.
You can take personal/carer's leave when you can't work because you are sick or injured. You can also use it to care for a member of your immediate family or household who requires care or support because of:
- personal injury
- personal illness
- an unexpected emergency.
Your personal/carer's leave accrues throughout the year and from year to year. You must give us notice as soon as possible to take personal/carer's leave. We may also require evidence (such as a medical certificate).
You are also entitled to 2 days unpaid carer's leave (in accordance with the National Employment Standards). This is available each time an immediate family member or household member needs your care or support. You can only take unpaid carer's leave if you do not have any paid carer's leave left.
Compassionate leave
This sets out compassionate leave entitlements in your employment contract.
Compassionate leave clause
You are entitled to 2 days paid compassionate leave (in accordance with the National Employment Standards) each time:
- a member of your immediate family or household dies, or has a life threatening illness or injury
- a child is stillborn, that would have been a member of your immediate family or household if born alive
- you or your current spouse or de facto partner has a miscarriage.
Public holidays
This sets out the work and pay rules for public holidays in your employment contract.
Public holiday clause
You have a right to be absent from work on a public holiday.
We may ask you to work on a public holiday. You may refuse our request to work if:
- your refusal is reasonable, or
- our request is unreasonable according to the Fair Work Act 2009.
If you work on a public holiday, you are entitled to any additional entitlements under your award, such as public holiday penalty rates.
If you do not work on a public holiday, and it falls on a day you would normally work, you are entitled to be paid your base rate of pay.
Long service leave
This sets out the work and pay rules for public holidays in your employment contract.
Long service leave clause
This provides an overview of long service leave in your employment contract.
Long service leave rules differ between states and territories, as well as between industries, so specific details are not provided here.