Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00150:section:105
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00150
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 105
Character Range: 365761–366945

105  Taking compassionate leave
 (1) An employee may take compassionate leave for a particular permissible occasion if the leave is taken:
 (a) to spend time with the member of the employee's immediate family or household who has contracted or developed the personal illness, or sustained the personal injury, referred to in section 104; or
 (b) after the death of the member of the employee's immediate family or household, or the stillbirth of the child, referred to in section 104; or
 (c) after the employee, or the employee's spouse or de facto partner, has the miscarriage referred to in section 104.
 (2) An employee may take compassionate leave for a particular permissible occasion as:
 (a) a single continuous 2 day period; or
 (b) 2 separate periods of 1 day each; or
 (c) any separate periods to which the employee and his or her employer agree.
 (3) If the permissible occasion is the contraction or development of a personal illness, or the sustaining of a personal injury, the employee may take the compassionate leave for that occasion at any time while the illness or injury persists.
Note: The notice and evidence requirements of section 107 must be complied with.