Permanent amendments have now been made to Long Service Leave Legislation in NSW to provide greater flexibility for employers and employees. The amendments will:
- Enable an employer and a worker to agree to the employee taking long service, either in advance or accrued of periods not less than 1 day;
- Provide workers who do not have fixed hours, with the means to calculate how many hours constitutes 1 day’s work;
- Shorten the period of employer notice for proposed leave to less than 1 month if this is agreed to by the worker; and
- Provide that employers keep long service records for 6 years.
Contract cleaners also now have reduced waiting periods for access to long service to 10 weeks, instead of 20 weeks under the Portable Long Service Leave provisions.
Would you like to know more? Contact Signature Law on 4861 2345.
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