Career Break Clause Samples

Career Break. 34.1 Employees are eligible to apply for a career break to meet personal, family or community responsibilities, e.g. study, child rearing, looking after a sick relative, personal development, etc. 34.2 A career break provides between three (3) months and one (1) year of unpaid leave and may be combined with other leave to provide a total period of absence up to two (2) years. 34.3 Employees who take a career break maintain continuity of employment but the period of leave does not count for service. 34.4 Employees who take a career break will be able to return to either their old position or an equivalent position.

Career Break. General provision - Unpaid and Purchased (a) A career break is an extended period of unpaid or purchased leave. An employee may be eligible to take a career break for reasons that are not covered by the usual leave entitlements. For example:

Career Break. A. What provision is available to take a career break? i) A career break is an extended period of unpaid or purchased leave. An employee may be eligible to take a career break for reasons that are not covered by the usual leave entitlements. For example: • Completing study or extending of skills that may be used with council; • Family responsibilities, e.g. dependent care, elder care;

Career Break. Leave without pay can be assessed on a case by case basis by EnergyAustralia to determine whether or not it will count for service. 38.3 Where EnergyAustralia has terminated an employee's employment because of ill health or injury, and the employee is subsequently retired, the total length of service shall be taken into account in calculating the employee's entitlements. 38.4 Employees who commenced duties with EnergyAustralia as a result of the amalgamations and mergers of ▇▇▇▇▇▇, Municipalities and County Councils on or prior to 1 January 1980 and mergers in 1995 shall have their previous service recognised in calculating their service entitlements. 38.5 From date of corporatisation of EnergyAustralia, 1 March 1996, the following service counts for long service (extended) leave purposes for staff employed by EnergyAustralia as at 1 March 1996: 38.5.1 Prior service with approved Government Departments will be recognised; this provision only applies for employees who were employed before 1 March 1996. 38.5.2 Prior service with approved NSW Authorities will be recognised. 38.5.3 Prior service with former Local Government regulated distributors which were engaged in electricity distribution will be recognised. 38.5.4 Prior service with approved State-Owned Corporations will be recognised. Prior service with the Australian Public Service will no longer be recognised after 1 March, 1996. 38.6 New employees recruited from the New South Wales Public Service after 1 March 1996, will continue to have the option of transferring their existing extended leave, recreation leave and sick leave balances to EnergyAustralia, subject to the existing arrangements for transfer of funds from the previous employer. 38.7 For the purposes of 38.5 and 38.6 above, the period of service for recognition must be ‘continuous’, which is defined as follows; 38.7.1 the employee entered on duty in EnergyAustralia on the next working day following cessation of employment with the recognised former employer; or 38.7.2 the employee has been accepted for employment by EnergyAustralia prior to the last day of service with the recognised former employer, in which case a break of up to two (2) months may be allowed between cessation of duty with the former recognised employer and commencement of employment with EnergyAustralia. 38.8 The Manager Employment Operations shall determine whether any transferred officer’s application is relevant in accordance with the relevant legislation and policy an...

Career Break. 3.20.1. A career break is a flexible work arrangement which allows an employee to take a period of leave from the workforce for twelve months. 3.20.2. To be eligible to make an application for a career break, an employee must have at least five years’ continuous service with Council at the time the application is made. 3.20.3. Applications for a career break will be considered on a case by case basis. Approval of a career break is at the discretion of Council. 3.20.4. A career break will include a combination of available annual and long service leave and unpaid leave. a) An employee is required to exhaust all annual and/or long service leave entitlements before commencement of any period of unpaid leave for the purposes of a career break. b) The relevant conditions of the Award and Council policies relevant to leave will apply to annual leave, long service leave and unpaid leave taken during a career break. 3.20.5. A career break may be extended or reduced by mutual agreement between the employee and Council.

Career Break. 30.1 Employees can apply for Career Breaks and career breaks require Management approval.

Career Break. Parents may be allowed a total of five (5) years leave to be utilised to take care of own/adopted/fostered child/children under the age of six (6) years. The five (5) years must be utilised as a whole period, and may be reduced by multiples of three months. If five (5) years are not availed of in one whole period, the outstanding period of leave may only be taken for the care of other child/children. Unpaid leave taken from this entitlement of five (5) years may be shared once by both parents, but not concurrently. During periods of absence from work, exceeding one month, on no pay all the National Insurance Contributions are to be settled by the employee..

Career Break. For each ten (10) years of continuous service the Employee has with the Employer the Employee will be entitled to take up to a year off as a career break without pay. The Employee will be required to provide at least three (3) months notice in writing to the Employer of their intention to take this leave and that leave request must specify the date on which their leave will commence and the date on which their leave will cease. The Employer and Employee may agree in writing to alter those dates.

Career Break. A career break is an extended period of leave without pay. An employee may be eligible to take a career break for reasons that are not covered by the usual leave entitlements. The length of a career break would be between six months and twelve months. For example: (a) personal development e.g. study (b) family responsibilities e.g. dependent care, elder care; An employee will be eligible for a career break when: (c) They have completed the equivalent of two years full time continuous service prior to commencing the career break; (i) All outstanding leave and any available long service leave has been taken; (ii) They have provided a summary of the benefits to be gained from the career break to the manager and have received approval for such leave. The employee should apply at least three months before the date on which they wish the career break to commence. Approval of an application for a career break will be at the employer’s discretion. A career break of 12 months or less is not considered a break in continuity of service. However, long service leave, superannuation, annual leave and sick leave entitlements will not accrue during the career break.