Long Service Leave Enquiry Form

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Use this form to request advice to help you determine the Long Service Leave for an employee in your business.

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Estimates of time are listed below the form.

Service required:

Contact person at your business:*

Your email address (Do not change):*

Your industry:

State/territory where your business operates:

Is your business a 'Pty Ltd' business?*

Name of the employee this enquiry is about:*

Position of employee this enquiry is about:*

What date did the employee start in the business:*

Is the employee full-time, part-time, or casual?

If a Modern Award applies, please select it from this list:

Does an applicable pre-Modern Award contain long service provisions that continue to apply:*

If a pre-Modern Award applies, what is the name:

If a WA State Award applies to your business, please select it from this list:

Has the employee been continuously employed in your business since that time:*

If the employee was not continuously employed, please provide details (i.e. absences that do not count as service):

Is the employee going on long service leave or is the employment ending:*

If employment is ending, what is the reason

How many hours long service leave has the employee previously taken (if any):*

Does an industry portable long service scheme apply to your business:*

If an industry portable long service scheme applies, what is the name:

Please provide any other information that may be of relevance in this matter:

If applicable - Upload file (Maximum file size 5 MB):

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Purchase authorised by:*

Position title:*

Payment method:*

Name on card:*

Card number:*

Expiry month:*

Expiry year:*

Card security code:*

Email address (For Tax Invoice/Receipt):*

Mandatory field(s) marked with *

Estimates of time:

The core LSL entitlements in the various state and territory jurisdictions. For example, what long service leave entitlements will a person receive in NSW if they have 10 continuous years of service?
1. Time: 15 minutes
What counts as continuous service? This question can be straight forward. However, if we start to look at absences due to injury, illness, unapproved absence, stand down periods (a stoppage of work), employment breaks of less than 2 – 3 months, re-employment or where continuous service is acquired through a sale/transfer of business then it will take time or even become consulting.
1. 15 - 70 minutes
Does untaken LSL get paid out upon termination of employment?
1. 15 minutes
Pro rata LSL where an employee ceases employment prior to achieving the relevant service entitlement. This can involve, resignations, termination due to misconduct or serious misconduct, illness, injury domestic or other necessity.
1. 15 – 45 minutes
The rate of pay at which LSL is paid out within the various state and territory jurisdictions. This can include, where an employee has changed between full-time, part-time hours or casual during the LSL qualifying period. This can also include, where employees have no fixed rate of pay, or they ordinary pay consist of bonus, commission and or overtime payments etc. This sort of question will require the WR team to confirm the most appropriate and accurate method of calculating the payment due upon termination in the jurisdiction in question.
1. 15 – 70 minutes
If some or all the service is service in a different state or territory jurisdiction.
1. 15 – 40 minutes.
Can LSL be cashed out? Some states like QLD will require more time.
1. 15 – 25 minutes.
Industry-specific LSL scheme/portable long service leave questions. There are LSL industry specific schemes like construction and coal mining, which would require to look at the award and potentially how the scheme operates.
1. 15 – 45 minutes.
LSL within an enterprise agreement.
1. 15 – 30 minutes.