National Employment Standards| Fairwork Online

The National Employment Standards (NES) set out the basic minimum employment conditions that apply to all Australian employers and employees covered under Fair Work laws, regardless of whether an employee is employed under a Modern Award, enterprise agreement, or any other arrangement. ...read more

The maximum weekly hours that an employee can be required to work are 38 hours, plus reasonable additional hours. ...read more

An employee who is a parent or has a responsibility for the care of a child under school age may request a change in working arrangements to assist the employee to care for the child. ...read more

Parental leave is an employment entitlement that allows eligible employees to take up to 12 months of unpaid leave for the purpose of having and / or caring for a newly born child, or upon the adoption of a child. ...read more

Annual leave is an accrued employment entitlement that allows all full-time and part-time employees to take certain amounts of paid leave each year.
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Personal / carer's leave is an accrued employment entitlement that allows a full-time or part-time employee to take paid leave if they are sick, or they need to take care of someone who is sick. ...read more

Compassionate leave is an employment entitlement that allows full-time and part-time employees to take 2 days of paid leave in certain circumstances. ...read more

Community service leave is an employment entitlement that allows most employees to take leave for 'community service' activities such as jury service and voluntary emergency management activities. ...read more

All employees are entitled to long service leave after they have worked for the same employer for a certain period of time.  The length of the 'qualifying period', and the amount of the long service leave entitlement, differs from state to state. ...read more

Public holidays are certain days gazetted by government that allow most employees to either take the day off work without loss of pay, or be paid penalty rates for working on such days. ...read more

Notice of termination is the notice period that must be given by an employer to an employee (or sometimes the other way around) when the employer intends to terminate the employee's employment. ...read more

Gardening leave occurs when an employee who has resigned or been given notice of termination is required to serve all or part of their notice period without performing any of their normal duties. ...read more

Redundancy takes place when an employer no longer wishes for the job being done by an employee to be done by anyone, or if the employer becomes bankrupt or insolvent. ...read more

When an employee's position has been made redundant, an employer may consider transferring the employee to a different position within the business.  This is referred to as redeployment. ...read more

The Federal Government has released a 'Fair Work Information Statement', which must be given to every new employee as soon as practicable after that employee starts their employment with an employer. ...read more