Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00150:section:106b
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00150
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 106B
Character Range: 368674–370095

106B  Taking paid family and domestic violence leave
 (1) The employee may take paid family and domestic violence leave if:
 (a) the employee is experiencing family and domestic violence; and
 (b) the employee needs to do something to deal with the impact of the family and domestic violence; and
 (c) it is impractical for the employee to do that thing outside the employee's work hours.
Note 1: Examples of actions, by an employee who is experiencing family and domestic violence, that could be covered by paragraph (b) include arranging for the safety of the employee or a close relative (including relocation), attending court hearings, accessing police services, attending counselling and attending appointments with medical, financial or legal professionals.
Note 2: The notice and evidence requirements of section 107 must be complied with.
 (2) Family and domestic violence is violent, threatening or other abusive behaviour by a close relative of a person, a member of a person's household, or a current or former intimate partner of a person, that:
 (a) seeks to coerce or control the person; and
 (b) causes the person harm or to be fearful.
 (3) A close relative of a person is another person who:
 (a) is a member of the first person's immediate family; or
 (b) is related to the first person according to Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander kinship rules.
Note: Immediate family is defined in section 12.