MyLeave – Construction Long Service WA (2024)

FAQs

Is there long service leave for 7 years in WA? ›

In Western Australia, to be entitled to a long service leave benefit you normally need to accrue a minimum of 7 years service with a single employer. However, if you work on-site in the construction industry, you may find yourself working with many employers over the same period.

Most types of employees may receive Long Service Leave entitlements in Australia. The refusal of requests for Long Service Leave are generally not permissible unless there are reasonable business grounds to do so.

Under the WA Long Service Leave Act, an employer and employee are able to agree to cash out some or all of an employee's long service leave once the employee has fully accrued a long service leave entitlement.

To claim, just complete and submit the Application for Payment of Long Service Leave Form (opens new window tab) to MyLeave by email. The form is in two parts. You should complete Part 1, and your employer should complete Part 2. It can also be found in Publications and Forms.

Your long service leave entitlements

Long service leave is calculated at 1.3 weeks of leave for each year of employment. You are still entitled to accumulate long service leave in the following situations: casual employment.

In certain cases, an employee may cash out personal leave and/or more than two hundred forty hours of annual leave. Although this cash-out is not earnable compensation, it may be used in the calculation of the employee's retirement allowance and the employer will be billed for the excess compensation.

The short answer is yes. Cashed out annual leave is considered part of an employee's ordinary time earnings (OTE) for the purpose of calculating the super guarantee rate under the relevant legislation.

What is a Long Service Award? A Long Service Award is a way of recognising and rewarding employee loyalty to a company, for a certain length of time. Traditionally, Long Service Awards are presented to an employee for 5, 10, 15, 20 and 25 years of employment.

Full time employees are entitled to four weeks of annual leave for each year of completed service, up to a maximum of 152 hours per year. Full time employees working a 38 hour week accrue annual leave at the rate of 2.923 hours per completed week of service (152/52 = 2.923).

How much long service leave after 20 years in QLD? ›

Should an employee have 20 or more years service as at 3 June 2001, they will keep their existing entitlement to 13 weeks (which was accrued at the completion of 15 years continuous service ), plus a further period of 4.333 weeks long service leave for their additional 5 years service.