7Non-service days—the Act, s 19

7 Non-service days—the Act, s 19

7 Non-service days—the Act, s 19

(1) For the Act, section 19(1), the following days are prescribed—

(a) a day a worker does not work because the worker is pregnant or has a pregnancy-related condition,

(b) a day a worker does not work because the worker is caring for another person, if the worker receives a Commonwealth carer allowance under the Social Security Act 1991 of the Commonwealth in relation to the other person,

(c) a day on which a worker performs building and construction work as an employee of the Crown, a local council or county council under an arrangement that does not provide for payment of long service benefits to the worker,

(c1) a day on which a worker performs building and construction work at a place that—

(i) is a Commonwealth place within the meaning of the Commonwealth Places (Application of Laws) Act 1970, and

(ii) is within the State,

(d) a day on which a worker does not work because the worker is suffering from personal illness or injury,

(e) a day on which a worker does not work because a member of the worker’s immediate family or household has—

(i) a serious illness, or

(ii) a serious injury, or

(iii) died.

(2) In this section—

immediate family has the same meaning as in the Fair Work Act 2009 of the Commonwealth.

Note—

The Act, section 19(1) provides that a non-service day means a day for which the worker did not accumulate a service credit and is used in calculations under the Act, section 19(1A) and (1B).

s 7: Am 2024 No 84, Sch 1.2.