NAT 072/20: High Court decision preserves longstanding industry practice regarding personal/carer’s leave accruals:

Ai Group is very pleased to inform Members that the High Court of Australia has overturned the Federal Court’s problematic interpretation of the personal/carer’s leave provisions of the Fair Work Act in the Mondelez v AMWU case.

The High Court’s decision restores equity and common sense to the calculation of personal/carer’s leave accruals and avoids a $2 billion a year additional cost for employers that would have resulted if the Federal Court’s decision had not been successfully challenged.

The successful outcome was the result of three years of hard work by Ai Group and Ai Group Workplace Lawyers. Ai Group Workplace Lawyers represented Mondelez in the Federal Court and High Court proceedings.