Leave entitlements

The NSW Industrial Relations Act 1996 includes provisions relating to leave entitlements such as parental leave, sick leave, personal and carer’s leave and bereavement leave.

As a guide most employees (except some casual employees) are entitled to:

The NSW Annual Holidays Act 1944 allows full-time and part-time employees in New South Wales to have four weeks paid leave per year. However, leave loading is an entitlement payable under most NSW awards or enterprise agreements.

Usually a provision of awards, a minimum of five days sick leave each year, which can be used when the employee is too ill to work or when it is necessary to look after ill family members.

Under the NSW Industrial Relations Act 1996, parental leave, which is usually unpaid leave available when an employee becomes a parent or adopts a child.

The NSW Long Service Leave Act 1955 provides that full-time, part-time and casual workers in New South Wales are entitled to be paid long service leave after working for an unbroken period of ten years with an employer.

Leave entitlements depend on whether the employee is employed on a permanent, part-time, temporary or casual basis.