A period of paid leave granted to an employee who has served a specified period of continuous employment.
it was an opportunity to spend time as a family while her husband was on long service leave
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- A similar scheme to protect long service leave works very successfully in the construction industry.
- They might work 15 years for 100 different companies and they obtain long service leave benefits.
- Reith eventually accepted a union proposal to pay the Oakdale miners from the $240 million Coal Industry long service leave fund.
- They are also seeking a reduction in qualifying time for long service leave from the present 15 years service to 10 years.
- The costs of bearing the risk associated with long service leave may be high.
- Long service leave entitlements will be able to be accrued with consecutive employers.
- Mobile long service leave ought to become a national scheme, independent of a particular employer.
- In the pharmaceutical industry an agreement allowed casual employees the opportunity to accrue long service leave on a full-time basis.
- It was a curious decision to take long service leave only 10 months into a three-year program of improvement.
- He is on long service leave, according to a statement issued by the bureau.