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The FDV leave entitlement is brand new, but the rules for employers are already changing, making this a critical area to keep a close eye on.

In a new HR Daily Premium webcast, Aitken Legal special counsel Hamish Procter notes that employers have less autonomy over this area than they might have previously expected.

For example, just days after the family and domestic violence leave entitlement came into effect, the guidance changed around how to record the leave on employees' payslips. Specifically, there was an instruction not to use the terms 'special leave' or 'other leave', but this didn't yet exist in the law or regulations, says Procter...