SA Portable Long Service Leave – Community Services is open for registrations and underway

SA Portable Long Service Leave – Community Services (SAPLSL-CS) is calling on all regional businesses in the sector to register for the scheme by the end of this month.

The SAPLSL-CS scheme has been introduced by the South Australian Government to ensure thousands of workers who support some of the most vulnerable South Australians will be able to take their long service leave accruals and entitlements with them, should they change employers within the sector.

The portal for registrations opened on 1 October, and more than 200 employers within the sector have already logged on to register their business details, along with registering hundreds of workers eligible for the scheme.

The statutory scheme is compulsory for employers within the sector, and it follows the successful introduction to the construction industry close to 50 years ago.

SAPLSL-CS chief executive Anthony Mackay said many employers were being proactive, registering their organisation, and signing up to webinars providing further information.

“Over the past three months we’ve been reaching as many employers as possible through newsletters, social media, industry publications, webinars and visits to regional and metropolitan businesses, to ensure they know what the scheme is about and how to register,” Mr Mackay said.

“The scheme recognises and values the commitment of workers in community services by allowing them to accrue long service leave even when changing employers within the sector.”

The scheme is funded by employers paying a 2.2 per cent levy on the wages paid to eligible workers, in lieu of employers maintaining their own long service leave provisions.

Employers will now report worker service and pay the levy quarterly, with entitlements managed and paid directly by the scheme.

Following the registration of their business or organisation, employers will need to register their workers on the scheme’s portal. Workers will then apply directly to the scheme for their entitlements, simplifying the administrative role for employers within the sector.

For further information, please visit https://saplsl-community.org.au/ or contact Aaron Glossop on 0401 124 061.