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Long Service Guide

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Every change to the rules, figures and pages of Long Service Guide appears here, newest first, with its date. Corrections are marked as corrections.

The site opened. It covers long service leave in all eight states and territories: a page for each jurisdiction built around its own Act, a comparison table, a calculator that applies the rules to your dates, and guides to pro rata leave, casual and part-time employees and portable schemes. Every rule shown carries its section, and each page lists its sources with the day each was checked.

The eight Acts were read on the official legislation sites on . The regulators' own guides, used where an Act leaves a practical point open such as where to make a complaint, and the portable scheme pages were read on that day or on ; the Sources block of each page gives the day for each source. A point that neither source settled is left off the page rather than guessed.

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When a rule, a figure or a source changes, a new entry is added above the previous one. An entry names the page and says what changed. For how figures are read and dated, see the methodology. To report a mistake, use the contact page.