However, a contract cannot legally contain long service leave entitlements inferior to the Act. It includes an apprentice and any person, such as a trainee, whose oral or written contract of employment requires him or her to learn or be taught an occupation.įull time, part time, casual and seasonal employees, and employees under certain fixed term arrangements, all accrue long service leave.Īn employee may have a more generous entitlement than the Act under a common law employment contract. An employee is defined by the Act as a person employed by an employer to do any work for hire or reward.
The Act provides entitlements for employees to long service leave. We have a comprehensive guide to the Long Service Leave Act 2018: The calculator provides an indicative calculation – businesses should check with their own experts to calculate long service leave accruals that take into account all the relevant circumstances.īusiness Victoria also has information to help businesses maintain good staff records External Link. You can get an estimate of how much long service leave you have accrue External Link d using the calculator on Business Victoria’s website External Link. In Victoria, from 1 July 2021, the Wage Theft Act 2020 External Link makes it a crime to falsify employee entitlement records or to avoid keeping records to gain a financial advantage. Long service leave accrues at a rate of one week for every 60 weeks of continuous service – that’s about 0.866 of a week each year.Įmployers must keep long service leave records and provide them to current or former employees on request.
Most Victorian workers qualify for long service leave if they have worked continuously with one employer for at least 7 years.