Casual Employment Information Statement

Glossary

A document that national system employers must give to their national system employees, which contains information about their casual employment and how to change to permanent employment under Division 4A, Part 2-2 of the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth) (FW Act), including:

The meaning of casual employee under section 15A of the FW Act (see Practice notes, FW Act: The meaning of casual employee (from 26 August 2024) and FW Act: The meaning of casual employee (pre-26 August 2024)).
That an employee who has completed six months of employment (12 months if employed by a small business employer) can notify the employer that they believe they no longer meet the definition of casual employee under section 15A.
The grounds on which an employer may not accept a notification given by an employee that they no longer meeting the definition of casual employee.
That the Fair Work Commission may deal with disputes about the operation of Division 4A, Part 2-2 of the FW Act (see Practice note, NES: Civil remedies and dispute resolution: NES casual conversion dispute resolution mechanism).

Before, or as soon as practicable after, they start employment as a casual employee.
As soon as practicable after the employee has been employed for a period of six months.
As soon as practicable after the following:
- the employee has been employed for a period of 12 months;
- the end of any subsequent period of 12 months for which the employee is employed by the employer.
(Section 125B(1).)

A small business employer must give each casual employee the Casual Employment Information Statement:

Before, or as soon as practicable after, they start employment as a casual employee.
As soon as practicable after the employee has been employed for a period of 12 months.

Failure to give the Casual Employment Information Statement is a breach of a civil remedy provision (section 44, FW Act).

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