More use of personal/carers leave
There are a ranges of expanded benefits for personal/carers leave to help APS employees manage their wellbeing, and life outside of work.
To help explain the impact of these benefits, we’ve created case studies below which you can apply to your own circumstance.
APS bargaining personal/carersleave: What could you get? |
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Case study 1 |
Jenny is an APS employee and a carer for her child with disability. |
Jenny needs to attend a lot of medical appointments and takespersonal/carers leave to attend these appointments. |
If Jenny’s new enterprise agreement comes into effect, she can use a medical certificate to cover 12 months of carer’s duties. This will help reduce the admin burden and the cost of doctor visits each time she takes personal/carers leave to support her child. |
Case study 2 |
Ben has been putting off going to the dentist, he also needs to gethis eyes checked – everything is starting to get blurry. |
Ben can’t find the time to go to these preventative healthappointments between work and family commitments. |
If Ben’s new enterprise agreement comes into effect, Ben canprioritise his health a little more and take personal leave to go to theseappointments. |
Case study 3 |
Leah works for the Department of Defence and currently gets 15 dayspersonal/carers leave per year. |
While this is much higher than what the National Employment Standardsprovides, she’d prefer some more. Leah has 3 kids in childcare and it’s hardon her personal/carers leave balance. |
If the Department of Defence’s new enterprise agreement comes intoeffect, Leah will get 3 more days personal/carers leave per year. |
Case study 4 |
Jesse has been working in state government and decides he’d like toexperience working in the APS. |
He’s worried he’ll lose his leave balance, particularly his sickleave balance, but applies to an APS agency anyway. |
If the new enterprise agreements come into effect, the APS agency he applies for can now choose to recognise his personal/carers leave balance. |