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ISSUE 6
Long Service Leave - Australia
Calculation of Payment
Full Time
State
Full Time
Ordinary remuneration employee would have received if leave had not been taken. Rate includes allowances payable for skills, qualifications, board and lodging, bonuses but not overtime or penalties. If the employee has worked full-time within two years of becoming entitled to leave, payment is calculated as the average over the prior five years to becoming entitled. If employee is remunerated wholly or partly by commission, rate payable is average of all salaries/wages/commissions over the last 12 months Full Time and Part Time: Paid at the ordinary pay rate which has been paid to a worker prior to taking leave or an average of the last five years ordinary pay earnings, whichever is greater. Includes an average of any bonus or other incentive payments paid over the past 12 months (if the last pay is greater) or five years (if five years is greater) unless earning more than $167,500 per year. For commission only employees, rate of pay is the average weekly ordinary rate of pay earned during the previous 12 months, or the average weekly ordinary rate of pay earned during the previous five years.
ACT
NSW
NT Rate of pay as per the fixed terms of employment. If not fixed rate, then rate of pay equals the rate at commencement of leave × average hours over period of employment. For commission based employees, rate of pay = average over the last 12 months
What the employee would have received for working their ordinary hours - not including overtime. If the employee has been part time or casual at any time during their service, then it’s Total ordinary hours worked during the period of service x 0.86667 / 52 Commission averaged by: commission paid in last 12 months/52.179
QLD
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