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Parental Leave and Employment Protection Act 1987

Primary carers not eligible for primary carer leave may request negotiated carer leave - Resolving disputes

30F: Limitation on challenging employer

You could also call this:

“You can't argue if your boss says no to your special leave request”

You can’t challenge your employer if they say no to your request for negotiated carer leave. This means you can’t argue with their decision or try to change it.

However, if your employer doesn’t answer your request at all, or if they don’t give you a proper answer, you can challenge them. You can do this if you think they haven’t followed the rules set out in section 30D of the law. This section tells employers how they should respond to requests for negotiated carer leave.

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Part 3A Primary carers not eligible for primary carer leave may request negotiated carer leave
Resolving disputes

30FLimitation on challenging employer

  1. An employee may not challenge his or her employer's refusal of a request for negotiated carer leave.

  2. An employee may challenge his or her employer’s failure to respond to a request for negotiated carer leave, or failure to respond adequately to a request, if the employee believes his or her employer has not complied with section 30D.

Notes
  • Section 30F: inserted, on , by section 34 of the Parental Leave and Employment Protection Amendment Act 2016 (2016 No 8).