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Minimum entitlement to redundancy or severance pay under the new National Employment Standards has been widened to include all fulltime and part-time employees (including award/agreement-free employees) employed by all companies that are not small businesses. Read more

Annual leave accrual is based on an employee's 'service' with the employer - 'service' in this context does not include any period of unpaid leave or authorised unpaid absence (except community service leave or a period of a stand-down) and any period of unauthorised absence, eg strike action Read more