Full-time, part-time and casual employees can take up to 10 days of paid family and domestic violence leave each year.

Employees could access paid family and domestic violence leave from:

• 1 February 2023 for employees of non-small business employers
• 1 August 2023 for employees of small business employers.

See Family and domestic violence leave for more information.

Pay slips and record keeping

Employers must keep a record of leave balances and any leave taken by employees. Pay slips can’t show when an employee has taken paid family and domestic violence leave.

After 4 June 2023

From 4 June 2023, if an employee takes paid family and domestic violence leave, it must be recorded on a pay slip as:

• ordinary hours of work, or
• another kind of payment for performing work, such as an allowance, bonus or overtime payment.

See Pay slips for more information on pay slip and record keeping requirements.

Before 4 June 2023

There were transitional arrangements in place before 4 June 2023. They allowed employers to record a period of paid family and domestic violence leave as another type of paid leave such as ‘other leave’.

This was a grace period to allow employers time to update their payroll systems so that family and domestic violence leave could be recorded in line with the requirements.