WORKPLACE RELATIONS ACT 1996 - SECT 309 Long adoption leave--when taken

This legislation has been repealed.

WORKPLACE RELATIONS ACT 1996 - SECT 309

                   An employee may take long adoption leave to which he or she is entitled at any time within 12 months after the day of placement of the child.

Note:          Long adoption leave must be taken in a single, unbroken period (see section 300). The combined total of adoption and authorised leave taken by the employee and his or her spouse must be no more than 52 weeks (see section 301). Long adoption leave must not be taken concurrently with any adoption leave, or any other authorised leave of the same type as adoption leave, taken by the employee's spouse because of the placement (see section 303).