Medium and large businesses (15 or more employees) make the change from unpaid to paid leave on 1st February 2023.
Small businesses (less than 15 employees) have been given a 6 month extension to 1st August 2023.
Under the new provisions, family and domestic violence means violent, threatening or other abusive behaviour by an employee’s close relative, a current or former intimate partner, or a member of their household that both:
-seeks to coerce or control the employee
-causes them harm or fear.
Don’t have time for long drawn out explanations? Here is the skinny:
– 10 days (not pro-rata) paid leave for all employees – full time, part time AND casual (casuals paid as per rostered time)
– Does not accrue – full 10 days available at start of employment or transition to new system
– Does not rollover – allocation renews on employment anniversary each year
– Does not get processed as family and domestic violence leave on payslip, so payslip looks ‘normal’
– Evidence has to convince a reasonable person that the employee took the leave to deal with the impact of family and domestic violence.
Need more detailed info? https://www.fairwork.gov.au/newsroom/news/new-paid-family-and-domestic-violence-leave
