HOT TOPIC Annual/Long Service Leave

[Psyber]

I also have worked in a position where your 17% leave loading for the 4 weeks p/a was calculated and divided amongst the 52 pay weeks of the year. Good for the employer rubbish for the employee,perhaps that system for a smaller business would work Psyber?

Yes it is a possible solution administratively.
The last small business I ran that employed anyone but family died in the late 1980s inflationary spiral and I had to work hard to extract my investment before the end came.
Even then I was employing only casuals as the extra cost of casuals more than offset the workload.
But once the campaign to grant casuals sick leave and LSL got going the writing was on the wall...

[Q.]

The nature of our contracts and funding means that annual leave is calculated into the yearly budget, it does not roll over (budget-wise), meaning if someone accrues their first year's leave into the second year and takes eight weeks at the end of the second year, only the second years annual leave has been budgeted for. Therefore you are 'encouraged' to use your AL every year. As it happens I work in a place where the people live to work, they just take their leave and then come into work anyway.

I reckon I've had one sick day in three years. If I get sick, but there is something that HAS to be done that day, I'll still choose to come in so as to not undermine all the work that has previously gone into 'it'. Not that I get sick much anyway.

Does that include posting on here??

Certainly makes it easier to get out of bed in the morning

[The Ash Man]

What is the going rate for a redundancy package?
3 weeks for each year of service?
Mrs Ash just got an email saying 28 people Oz wide will be let go
Prob not her position but just wondering what the going rate has been recently

[wycbloods]

What is the going rate for a redundancy package?
3 weeks for each year of service?
Mrs Ash just got an email saying 28 people Oz wide will be let go
Prob not her position but just wondering what the going rate has been recently

Depends if she works under a Collective agreement or if she is employed under an award. If it were an award then most of them 12 weeks for 7 or more years and 3 weeks for 1-2 years. Most collective agreements have 2-3 weeks per year of service and some have 4 weeks. Most of them are usually capped at around the 52 week mark.