Fair Work Amendment (Family and Domestic Violence Leave) Act 2018 (Cth)

Fair Work Amendment (Family and Domestic Violence Leave) Act 2018

No. 169, 2018

An Act to amend the Fair Work Act 2009 to provide for unpaid family and domestic violence leave, and for related purposes

Contents 1 Short title 2 Commencement 3 Schedules Schedule 1—Amendments Fair Work Act 2009

Fair Work Amendment (Family and Domestic Violence Leave) Act 2018 No. 169, 2018

An Act to amend the Fair Work Act 2009 to provide for unpaid family and domestic violence leave, and for related purposes

[Assented to 11 December 2018]

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

1 Short title This Act is the Fair Work Amendment (Family and Domestic Violence Leave) Act 2018.

2 Commencement (1) Each provision of this Act specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Commencement information Column 1 Column 2 Column 3 Provisions Commencement Date/Details 1. The whole of this Act The day after this Act receives the Royal Assent. 12 December 2018

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally enacted. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this Act. (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this Act. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this Act.

3 Schedules Legislation that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments

Fair Work Act 2009

1 Section 12 Insert: close relative: see subsection 106B(3). family and domestic violence: see subsection 106B(2). unpaid family and domestic violence leave means unpaid family and domestic violence leave to which a national system employee is entitled under section 106A.