Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00150:section:104
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00150
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 104
Character Range: 364821–365761

104  Entitlement to compassionate leave
 (1) An employee is entitled to 2 days of compassionate leave for each occasion (a permissible occasion) when:
 (a) a member of the employee's immediate family or a member of the employee's household:
 (i) contracts or develops a personal illness that poses a serious threat to his or her life; or
 (ii) sustains a personal injury that poses a serious threat to his or her life; or
 (iii) dies; or
 (b) a child is stillborn, where the child would have been a member of the employee's immediate family, or a member of the employee's household, if the child had been born alive; or
 (c) the employee, or the employee's spouse or de facto partner, has a miscarriage.
 (2) Paragraph (1)(c) does not apply:
 (a) if the miscarriage results in a stillborn child; or
 (b) to a former spouse, or former de facto partner, of the employee.
Note: For the definition of a stillborn child, see subsection 77A(2).