Adoption and Fostering Leave. 30.1 An employee with 12 months continuous service in the APS who is the adoptive parent and primary carer of a newly adopted child (under 16 years at the day of placement) or the xxxxxx parent who has assumed long term responsibility by a permanent fostering arrangement is entitled to 14 weeks paid leave from the date of the placement of the child. Employees may elect to take all or part of this paid leave at half pay. Where an employee elects to take paid adoption and fostering leave at half pay a maximum of 14 weeks counts as service for all purposes. Adoption and fostering leave will be granted where the eligible employee has adopted a child under 16 years at the day of placement, who has not previously lived with the employee for a continuous period of six months or more, and who is not the child of the employee’s partner. Details are in the APVMA’s Parental and Adoption Leave Policy.
Adoption and Fostering Leave. 1. Any employee adopting or fostering a child shall be covered under “C” above.
Adoption and Fostering Leave. F12.1 The Secretary may approve leave in relation to the adoption of a child where:
Adoption and Fostering Leave. 59.1 An employee is entitled to paid Adoption and Fostering Leave equivalent to the paid Maternity Leave available under Section 58 where the employee adopts a child or accepts a child for long term fostering arrangements and the employee is the primary carer of the child.
Adoption and Fostering Leave. An employee who adopts a child or who has assumed long term responsibility arising from the placement of a child through a permanent fostering arrangement, including where a child is placed by the Court in the permanent or long-term care of an extended family member (refer to Glossary for definition of ‘child for adoption and fostering leave purposes’) and has or will have responsibility for that child is entitled to a maximum of 130 weeks adoption leave (including the period of paid adoption leave, and any other paid or unpaid leave and public holidays). An employee who is absent on a period of adoption or fostering leave will not be entitled to access maternity or parental leave provisions in Clauses 44 or 45. To be eligible to receive paid adoption or fostering leave, an employee must have 12 months of continuous service as defined by the Maternity Leave Act, and be the primary care giver of that child. An eligible non-ongoing employee on adoption or fostering leave may access adoption or fostering leave arrangements until their contract of employment expires, or the adoption or fostering leave ceases, whichever occurs first. Following adoption and/or fostering approval, an employee who is the primary carer of the child is entitled to up to 16 weeks of paid adoption leave. Adoption and/or fostering leave is available from one month prior to the date of placement of a child. Periods of full paid adoption or fostering leave will count as service for all purposes. Except in the case of periods of unpaid leave in the first 12 weeks of leave, periods of unpaid adoption or fostering leave will not count as service for any purpose (leave credits will not accrue), but do not break the employee’s continuity of service. An eligible employee may spread the payment of up to 16 weeks adoption leave over a maximum of 32 weeks at a rate of half normal salary. Where an employee elects to spread the payment over a greater period, a maximum of 16 weeks will count as service.
Adoption and Fostering Leave. 33.1 The Employee will notify the Company at least six weeks in advance of the date of commencement of adoption leave and the period of leave to be taken. An Employee may commence adoption leave prior to providing such notice, where through circumstances beyond the control of the Employee, the adoption or fostering of the child takes place earlier.
Adoption and Fostering Leave. 71.1. The Australian Statistician will grant an Interviewer, who has a minimum continuous period of 12 months ABS service, leave on full pay for a period of up to 14 weeks for the purposes of adopting an eligible adoptive child or fostering an eligible xxxxxx child. Adoption and Fostering Leave counts as service for all purposes.
