Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) An employee is entitled to 2 days of compassionate leave for each occasion (a permissible occasion ) when:
(a) a member of the employee's immediate family or a member of the employee's household:
(i) contracts or develops a personal illness that poses a serious threat to his or her life; or
(ii) sustains a personal injury that poses a serious threat to his or her life; or
(iii) dies; or
(b) a child is stillborn, where the child would have been a member of the employee's immediate family, or a member of the employee's household, if the child had been born alive; or
(c) the employee, or the employee's spouse or de facto partner, has a miscarriage.
(2) Paragraph (1)(c) does not apply:
(a) if the miscarriage results in a stillborn child; or
(b) to a former spouse, or former de facto partner, of the employee.
Note: For the definition of a stillborn child, see subsection 77A(2).