12Calculation of long service leave entitlement

12 Calculation of long service leave entitlement

[Section 12 Substituted by No. 49 of 2019, s. 9, Applied:18 Dec 2019]

(1)  An employee is entitled to be credited with a period of long service leave, calculated in accordance with subsection (2) at least once in each year of continuous employment of the employee, in respect of the period of continuous employment of the employee since the last time the employee was credited with a period of long service leave in respect of that employment.

(2)  A period of long service leave with which an employee is entitled to be credited under this section for a relevant period is to be calculated in accordance with the following formula:

where –

E means the total number of hours of long service leave with which an employee is entitled to be credited in respect of the relevant period;

A means the total number of hours for which the employee was continuously employed during the relevant period;

B means the total number of days that the employee would have been required to work in the relevant period if the employee had been a full-time employee, in the position held by the employee, for a year.

(3)  In this section –

relevant period, in relation to the calculation of an entitlement to be credited with a period of long service leave, means the period of continuous employment, not exceeding a year, in respect of which the entitlement is being calculated.