Long Service Leave Act 1981

An employer shall, in respect of each employee, keep and maintain or cause to be kept and maintained a record showing particulars of:

the name of the employee;

the date on which the employee commences employment with the employer, the wages, the periods of prior qualifying service, and the salary or commission paid to such an employee;

the number of hours of work per week worked by the employee;

the accrued long service leave credit of the employee;

each period of long service leave, or payment in lieu of long service leave, made to the employee;

each other occasion of 2 months or more on which the employee has been absent from that employment; and

where the employee ceased to be employed by the employer - the date on which the employee ceased to be so employed.

An employer shall retain a record referred to in subsection (1):

after the date on which the employee to whom the record relates ceased to be employed by the employer - until the expiration of 3 years; and

in the case of an employee whose employment is terminated by death - 6 years after the date on which all moneys owing to the legal personal representative are paid.

A person shall not make a false or misleading statement in or a material omission from a record that is required to be kept under this section.