MyLeave Worker FAQ's (2024)

You can have breaks from the industry of up to two years in the first 5 years of service, and up to 4 years after that without breaking continuous service and without losing any accrued service days. These breaks do not count towards your entitlement accrual.

If a worker breaks their continuous service before reaching a minimum of 7 years of service, then all the service accrued to date is extinguished. No payment can be made to a worker who has accumulated less than 7 years of service regardless of the circ*mstances. MyLeave has no discretion in the matter.

As a worker, once you have accumulated 10 years of service, you are entitled to 8 ²/₃weeks paid long service leave.

You can also request a pro rata (proportional) payout after 7 years of service. MyLeave has no discretion and cannot pay out accumulated service for any reason if the minimum period of 7 years has not been achieved.

By claiming a pro rata payment on termination of employment, you will break your service for long service leave purposes. This means that you must work a further 7 years in the construction industry before you once again qualify for any further benefit from MyLeave.

For the initial 10 years of long service leave entitlement (8 ²/₃weeks) you can take leave on only 3 occasions and the minimum period of leave is 1 week.

If you move to another State or Territory, your WA service can count in that State towards a long service leave benefit.

You should allow a minimum period of 2-3 weeks for MyLeave to process and approve your claim.

Just complete and submit theApplication for Payment of Long Service Leave.

Once submitted, and where your current or last MyLeave contributing employer is still trading, they will be asked to provide information to support the claim. This ensures that we have the relevant information to pay you correctly.

To combat fraud and to protect your entitlements, we have partnered with greenID to provide ID verification services. This ID verification step will be required before we can process your claim.

MyLeave pays you at your ordinary rate of pay averaged over your last 220 days of service in the construction industry.

If you are entitled to paid leave, ordinary pay means the rate of pay (disregarding any leave loading) to which you are entitled for annual leave.

Please note that ordinary pay does not include annual leave loading but does include other amounts such as rental allowance, utilities allowance, living away from home allowance etc. – if these allowances are due to you when on paid annual leave.

If you are not entitled to paid annual leave, your ordinary pay is the rate of pay to which you are entitled for ordinary hours of work. For instance, the ordinary rate for casuals will include casual loading, and may include other applicable allowances and weekend work.

No, if you have applied to MyLeave to take leave then you are not able to work for your employer or any other employer during the approved leave period. Penalties may apply if you are found to be working during your approved leave period.

If your employer urgently needs you to attend work, please contact us so that we can provide you with options to assist you with this issue.