Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

FAIR WORK ACT 2009 - SECT 97

    An employee may take paid personal/carer's leave if the leave is taken:

  (a)   because the employee is not fit for work because of a personal illness, or personal injury, affecting the employee; or

  (b)   to provide care or support to a member of the employee's immediate family, or a member of the employee's household, who requires care or support because of:

  (i)   a personal illness, or personal injury, affecting the member; or

  (ii)   an unexpected emergency affecting the member.

Note 1:   The notice and evidence requirements of section   107 must be complied with.

Note 2:   If an employee has an entitlement to paid personal/carer's leave, the employee may take that leave instead of taking unpaid special parental leave under section   80.