Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Long Service Leave Act 1992 - SECT 72

What is to happen if employment ends before leave taken

72. What is to happen if employment ends before leave taken



(1) If the employment of an employee ends before he or she has taken all the
long service leave to which he or she is entitled, the employee is to be
regarded as having started to take his or her leave on the day the employment
ended.

(2) On that day the employee's employer must pay the employee the full amount
of the employee's long service leave entitlement as at that day.

Penalty: 20 penalty units.

(3) An employee's long service leave entitlement under this section includes
any entitlement that accrued as a result of the ending of the employee's
employment.