Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2007C00183:clause:1_93q
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2007C00183
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 1 cl 93Q
Character Range: 191814–193034

93Q  The guarantee

 (1) For the purposes of this Division, compassionate leave is paid leave taken by an employee:
 (a) for the purposes of spending time with a person who:
 (i) is a member of the employee's immediate family or a member of the employee's household; and
 (ii) has a personal illness, or injury, that poses a serious threat to his or her life; or
 (b) after the death of a member of the employee's immediate family or a member of the employee's household.

 (2) Subject to this Subdivision, an employee is entitled to a period of 2 days of compassionate leave for each occasion (a permissible occasion) when a member of the employee's immediate family or a member of the employee's household:
 (a) contracts or develops a personal illness that poses a serious threat to his or her life; or
 (b) sustains a personal injury that poses a serious threat to his or her life; or
 (c) dies.

 (3) However, the employee is entitled to compassionate leave only if the employee gives his or her employer any evidence that the employer reasonably requires of the illness, injury or death.

Note: The use of personal information given to an employer under this section may be regulated under the Privacy Act 1988.