With QLeave, your long service leave moves with you.
QLeave provides portable long service leave to eligible electrical workers in Queensland’s building and construction industry. With portable long service leave, you accrue long service leave based on your service to the industry, even if you change employers or projects, or work interstate.
How does portable long service leave work?
If you’re an eligible worker in Queensland, your employer is legally required to register and record your work with us every financial year.
You’ll receive one service credit for every day you work, up to a maximum of 220 credits each year. Once you’ve recorded 2,200 credits (which takes a minimum of ten years), you’ll be able to claim your long service leave through QLeave. Interstate work can also count towards this total as long as it has been recorded with the portable long service leave authority in that state or territory.
Eligible workers include casual, part-time and full-time employees, trainers and apprentices, workers employed by a labour hire company, and some sole trader contractors, forepersons and sub forepersons. Not sure if you’re eligible? Find out more about eligibility and your entitlements.
Stay up to date using our online portal
It’s important you check your statement every year to make sure your employer has correctly reported your service. If they don’t report your service and you aren’t aware, you could be missing out on your entitlements. If we don’t have any service recorded for you for four years, your registration could be canceled, and you may forfeit the credits you have accrued.
Use the QLeave online portal to update your details, access your service history, or make your long service leave claim. If you need assistance with accessing our online portal, please visit our website for instruction guides, or contact us for further support.
Access the portal
Missing service?
If you believe you’re missing service, or there is an error in your service statement, please contact your employer and ask them to review the information. Your employer can then contact us to update the information if they agree it was incorrect. If your employer will not update information and you believe the information should be corrected, please contact us directly.
Employer obligations
If you are an employer, it’s your responsibility to register with QLeave and to advise us when eligible workers start and end employment. At the end of each financial year, we’ll provide you with a record of your registered workers. You must check the list, provide details of employment periods and return it to us.
There is no cost to you as an employer, as the scheme is funded by a levy on all building and construction work performed in Queensland, where the total cost of work is $150,000 (excluding GST) or more.
Are you an employer? Read more about your obligations.
