Community Services Industry (Portable Long Service Leave) Act 2020
sec.70Employer to keep record for each worker
Start here
Get a plain-English read of sec.70
Turn the raw legal text into a practical explanation grounded in Community Services Industry (Portable Long Service Leave) Act 2020.
sec.70 Employer to keep record for each worker
An entity that is or was an employer must keep a record of the following information for each of the entity’s workers— the worker’s name, date of birth and residential address; if the worker is a registered worker, the worker’s registration number; the number of days the worker was engaged by the employer; the ordinary wages for the worker for each day worked; the day the worker’s engagement with the employer started; details of long service leave granted by the employer to, or taken by, the worker; details of a payment made to the worker instead of granting long service leave to the worker; if the worker is no longer engaged to perform community services work for the employer—the day the worker stopped being engaged to perform the work for the employer. Maximum penalty—40 penalty units. The entity must keep the record for at least 6 years after the last entry is made in it. Maximum penalty—40 penalty units. (sec.70-ssec.1) An entity that is or was an employer must keep a record of the following information for each of the entity’s workers— the worker’s name, date of birth and residential address; if the worker is a registered worker, the worker’s registration number; the number of days the worker was engaged by the employer; the ordinary wages for the worker for each day worked; the day the worker’s engagement with the employer started; details of long service leave granted by the employer to, or taken by, the worker; details of a payment made to the worker instead of granting long service leave to the worker; if the worker is no longer engaged to perform community services work for the employer—the day the worker stopped being engaged to perform the work for the employer. Maximum penalty—40 penalty units. (sec.70-ssec.2) The entity must keep the record for at least 6 years after the last entry is made in it. Maximum penalty—40 penalty units.
- (a) the worker’s name, date of birth and residential address;
- (b) if the worker is a registered worker, the worker’s registration number;
- (c) the number of days the worker was engaged by the employer;
- (d) the ordinary wages for the worker for each day worked;
- (e) the day the worker’s engagement with the employer started;
- (f) details of long service leave granted by the employer to, or taken by, the worker;
- (g) details of a payment made to the worker instead of granting long service leave to the worker;
- (h) if the worker is no longer engaged to perform community services work for the employer—the day the worker stopped being engaged to perform the work for the employer.