Provisions Providing Entitlements Superior to the NES. 8.1 Requests for flexible working arrangements (a) An employee may request, in writing, a change in their working arrangements in the following circumstances: (i) the employee is the parent, or has responsibility for the care, of a child who is of school age or younger; (ii) the employee is a carer (within the meaning of the Carer Recognition Act 2010); (iii) the employee has a disability; (iv) the employee is 55 or older; (v) the employee is experiencing violence from a member of the employee’s family; (vi) the employee provides care or support to a member of the employee’s immediate family, or a member of the employee’s household, who requires care or support because the member is experiencing violence from the member’s family.
Provisions Providing Entitlements Superior to the NES. 8.1 Parental Leave (a) The parental provisions of the NES are varied such that: i) for an Employee who is entitled to take, and does take, unpaid birth-related leave or adoption-related leave under section 70 of the Act, and who is or will be the primary carer of the child, the first 14 weeks of that leave will be paid leave. 14 weeks paid leave is subject to the employee having at least one year’s continuous service. This entitlement does not apply to casual employees. ii) Primary Carer means the person who has the primary responsibility to care for or support the dependent infant or the pre-school age child. The primary carer for the payment of paid leave must be: ▪ the birth mother of the newborn; ▪ the adopting parent of the child; or ▪ another person caring for the child. iii) an Employee with service of at least the amount prescribed in section 67(1) or (2) of the Act whose spouse gives birth to a child or adopts a child is entitled to paid leave for five School Days and unpaid leave for five School Days, within 6 months of the date of birth or the day of placement of the child or around the date of the child’s birth or adoption. This leave need not necessarily be taken in one continuous period.
Provisions Providing Entitlements Superior to the NES
