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.
References
What to do next
- Find out about Leave
- Use our Pay and Conditions Tool to calculate your annual leave or sick and carer’s leave
- Get help with leave
- Find out about Other workplace relations help