Bill
Fair Work Amendment (Family and Domestic Violence Leave) Bill 2018
passed, as at 2018-12-11. Jobs and Innovation portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Jobs and Innovation
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2018-09-13
- second reading — 2018-09-13
- second reading — 2018-11-29
- second reading — 2018-12-03
- second reading — 2018-12-04
- second reading — 2018-12-04
- committee — 2018-12-04
- third reading — 2018-12-04
- introduced — 2018-12-05
- second reading — 2018-12-05
- second reading — 2018-12-06
- second reading — 2018-12-06
- third reading — 2018-12-06
- passed — 2018-12-06
- royal assent — 2018-12-11
Divisions
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2018-09-13.
The bill would add five days of unpaid leave per year to the minimum employment standards for workers affected by family and domestic violence.
Employers would have to keep confidential any notice or evidence an employee gives about taking this leave, unless a law or a safety need requires disclosure.
The leave would be available in full at the start of each 12-month period, not accumulate, and apply to casual and part-time workers without pro-rating.
- Creates a new unpaid leave entitlement of five days per year in the National Employment Standards.
- Requires employers to treat information about an employee's family and domestic violence leave confidentially, with two exceptions.
- Extends the leave to casual and part-time employees in full, without accrual or carry-over.
Employees covered by the national workplace relations system who are experiencing family or domestic violence, and their employers.
Sources
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