17Unpaid leave for part-time employees

17 Unpaid leave for part-time employees

(1)  A part-time employee is entitled to a period of unpaid leave in addition to paid long service leave calculated under section 12 (3) .

(2)  Any period of unpaid leave may be subject to prescribed conditions.

(3)  [Section 17 Subsection (3) amended by No. 49 of 2019, s. 13, Applied:18 Dec 2019] Any period of unpaid leave in excess of 20 days is not to be taken into account in calculating the employee's entitlement to any personal leave, recreation leave, long service leave or other prescribed leave.

(4)  Any period of unpaid leave together with any long service leave calculated under section 12 (3) is not to exceed any period of long service leave to which the employee would have been entitled had the employee been a full-time employee.