131EContinuation of leave started before 1 July 2016

131E Continuation of leave started before 1 July 2016

General (1) If: (a) immediately before 1 July 2016, an employee in Norfolk Island employment is taking a period of leave; and (b) there is leave of an equivalent type under the National Employment Standards; the employee is entitled to continue on leave of the equivalent type under the National Employment Standards for the remainder of the period.

Note: For example, if an employee is taking paid annual leave immediately before 1 July 2016, the employee is entitled to continue on paid annual leave under the National Employment Standards.

(2) If an employee continues on leave under the National Employment Standards in accordance with subsection (1), the employee is entitled to adjust any of the following consistently with the provisions of the National Employment Standards in relation to that type of leave: (a) the amount of leave the employee is taking or will take; (b) the time at which the leave is taken; (c) the arrangements for taking the leave. Community service leave (3) An employee may, on or after 1 July 2016, be absent from his or her Norfolk Island employment under Division 8 of the National Employment Standards even if the period of absence began before that day. (4) If an employee is absent from his or her employment in accordance with subsection (3) of this section, subsection 111(5) of the National Employment Standards applies as if a reference to the first 10 days of absence were a reference to the first 10 days of absence occurring on or after 1 July 2016.