Rights & Responsibilities

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Leave Entitlements

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

• Under the the NSW Annual Holidays Act 1944 4 weeks annual holidays each year.
• Usually a provision of awards, a minimum of 5 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.
• Two months paid long service leave after 10 years service.

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

Find out more about entitlements to:

• Annual holidays
• Long service leave
• Calculate your Annual Leave or Long Service Leave
• Parental Leave
• Personal and Carer's Leave
• Bereavement Leave

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