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Research one NES standard that has been allocated to you and create a post that gives an overview of the entitlement and any other information you find relevant and interesting.

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The National Employment Standards (NES) are 11 minimum employment entitlements that have to be provided to all employees.

Minimum entitlements for employees

The National Minimum Wage and the NES make up the minimum entitlements for employees in Australia.

Other workplace instruments can't provide for conditions that are less than the National Minimum Wage or the NES. This includes an:

These also can't exclude the NES.

Employers have to give every new employee a copy of the Fair Work Information Statement (the FWIS) when they start their new job.

Employers also have to give every new casual employee a copy of the Casual Employment Information Statement (the CEIS) at the same time.

11 minimum NES entitlements

The 11 minimum entitlements of the NES are:

Who the NES covers

All employees in the national workplace relations system are covered by the NES. This is regardless of the award, registered agreement or employment contract that applies.

Casual employees and the NES

Casual employees only get some NES entitlements including:

In some states and territories, long serving casuals are eligible for long service leave.

Casual employees can request flexible working arrangements and take unpaid parental leave if:

they have been employed by their employer as a casual employee on a regular and systematic basis over at least 12 months, and

they reasonably expect to continue being employed by the employer on a regular and systematic basis.

See Casual employees for more information.

Source reference: Fair Work Act 2009 s.61

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The National Employment Standards (NES) are 11 minimum employment entitlements that have to be provided to all employees.

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Redundancy can happen when the business:

introduces new technology (for example, the job can be done by a machine)

slows down due to lower sales or production

closes down

relocates interstate or overseas

restructures or reorganises because a merger or takeover happens.

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Carer's leave allows employees to take time off of work to deal with personal illness, caring responsibilities or in the case of family emergencies.
Carers leave can be both paid and unpaid for an employee.
An employee can be paid for their time off if they're unable to work due to personal illness or injury.
An employee is also entitled to 2 days unpaid leave in order to support a family or household member due to illness, injury or an unexpected emergency.

The rate of pay for an employee taking paid carers leave is set at a base rate for every hour they would normally work. This base rate does not include extra entitlements.

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Parental leave is a leave that allows employees to take time off in order to take care of a welfare of a child. Employees are also entitled to up to 12months of unpaid parental leave and they can request up to an addition 12 months of leave.
Parental leave entitlements covers:
-maternity leave
-paternity and partner leave
-adoption leave
-special maternity leave
-a safe job an no safe job leave
It is eligible to all employees in Australia and can only be taken when the employee:
-have worked for the employer for at least 12 months
-before the date or expected date of birth if the employee is pregnant
-before the date of adoption
-have or will have responsibility for the care of the child.
And parental leave can be taken after
- an employee gives birth
- an employee's spouse or de facto partner gives birth
- an employee adopts a child under 16 years of age.

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(Sick or carer's leave)
When and employee has time off due to illness or injury or has to take care of immediate family or household members who have illness or injury.
A full-time employee is entitled to 10 days of personal leave per year or pro rata for part-time employees. Casual employees do not receive personal leave.
Employees usually must give evidence of illness or injury to be eligible for the paid service leave (eg; doctor's certificate). Employees get 2 days of unpaid personal leave if they have used up their allocated 10 days of paid leave.
The amount of leave accumulates from the employees first day and remaining un-claimed days can be carried over to the next year.

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All employees (including casual employees) are entitled to compassionate leave.
Compassionate leave can be taken when a member of an employee's immediate family or household:
*dies
*contracts or develops a life-threatening illness or injury.

Everyone is related to the employees can be taken compassionate leave, or if the employer agrees to this.

The compassion leave can be taken as
*a single continuous 2 day period, or
*2 separate periods 1 day each, or
*any separate periods the employee and the employer agree.

An employee does not accumulate compassionate leave and it doesn't come out of their sick and carer's leave (or annual leave) balance. It can be taken any time an employee needs it.

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Employees, including casual employees, can take community service leave for certain activities such as:

voluntary emergency management activities

the activity involves dealing with an emergency or natural disaster

jury duty (including attendance for jury selection).

With the exception of jury duty, community service leave is unpaid.

There is no limit on the amount of community service leave an employee can take.

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Employees (except casual employees) who normally work on the day a public holiday falls will be paid their base pay rate for the ordinary hours they would have worked if they had not been away because of the public holiday.All employees have a right to be absent from work on a day or part day that is a public holiday.
The base pay rate doesn’t include:

any incentive-based payments

bonuses

loadings

monetary allowances

overtime or

penalty rates.

An employee's roster can't be changed to deliberately avoid this payment.

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Employees, including casual employees, can take community service leave for certain activities such as:

voluntary emergency management activities

jury duty (including attendance for jury selection):

Employees, including casual employees, can take leave to attend jury selection and jury duty

Employees must advise their employers of the period or expected period of leave as soon as possible. If an employee requests leave they need to provide evidence showing they attended jury selection or jury duty.

Full-time and part-time employees have to be paid 'make-up pay' for the first 10 days of jury selection and jury duty.

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38 hours per week
Can refuse additional hours if it’s unreasonable
2 days leave in a week
Can take leave  (paid or unpaid)

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All emplyees including part time and casual are entitled to 5 unpaids days of leave.

Family and domestic violence leave refers to incidents where the employees close family member is trying coerce/ control or harm them.

All industries must offer this leave and some employers might offer more within their contracts.

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Working on public holidays

Awards, enterprise agreements and other registered agreements can provide entitlements for working public holidays, including:

extra pay (for example public holiday rates)

an extra day off or extra annual leave

minimum shift lengths on public holidays

agreeing to substitute a public holiday for another day.