Western Australian Consolidated Acts

MINIMUM CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT ACT 1993 - SECT 20B

20B .         Unpaid carer’s leave

        (1)         Subject to subsection (2), an employee is entitled to unpaid carer’s leave of up to 2 days for each occasion (a permissible occasion ) on which a member of the employee’s family or household requires care or support because of —

            (a)         an illness or injury of the member; or

            (b)         an unexpected emergency affecting the member.

        (2)         An employee is entitled to unpaid carer’s leave for a particular permissible occasion only if the employee cannot take paid carer’s leave during the period.

        (3)         In subsection (2) —

        paid carer’s leave means paid carer’s leave authorised by the employer or by an employer-employee agreement, an award, a contract of employment or section 20A(1).

        [Section 20B inserted by No. 36 of 2006 s. 31(1).]