Long Service Leave Guidelines For Employees In Catholic Schools ...

calculating long service leave. Such leave, however, does not break continuity of
service.
For example, employees commencing service on 1/2/95 would normally become
eligible for long service leave on 1/2/05 after completing ten years of service.
However, employees taking a full year’s leave without pay would not become
eligible for leave until 1/02/06.
2.5 Long service leave must be taken as soon as practicable after the completion of
each ten years of service. Leave must be taken at a time which is acceptable to
both employer and employee.
2.6 Long service leave must normally be taken in one continuous period but if the
parties agree leave may be taken in separate periods.
2.7 Once employees have commenced a period of leave, every day (including weekends
and public holidays) counts as leave.
2.8 Employees who become ill while on long service leave and produce a doctor's
certificate may have this period of their leave debited against sick leave rather
than long service leave.
2.9 The Long Service Leave Act stipulates:
14. (1) A worker must not, while on long service leave, engage in any other employment in
place of the employment in relation to which the right to leave is accrued.
2.10 An employee becomes eligible for payment in lieu of long service leave (or part
thereof) if a written agreement is recorded and signed by the employer and
employee.
3. SACCS LONG SERVICE LEAVE FUND
3.1 The South Australian Commission for Catholic Schools (SACCS) has established a
Long Service Leave Fund to which most Catholic schools in South Australia belong.
(Refer to Appendix A for a list of schools currently not members of the Long Service
Leave Fund).
3.2 This Fund was established:-
3.2.1 to assist member schools provide for long service leave
3.2.2 to allow for portability of long service leave between member schools.
3.3 The Fund is administered by the SACCS Administration Finance and Planning
Standing Committee which must account to SACCS for the financial viability of the
Fund and which recommends policies under which long service leave should be
granted.
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