Compliance Flag for Allied Health: NSW Portable Long Service Leave Scheme – Are You Registered?
- Sep 1, 2025
- 2 min read
Updated: Feb 10
What is the NSW Portable Long Service Leave Scheme?
The NSW Community Services Industry Portable Long Service Leave Scheme (PLSL Scheme) allows eligible workers in the community services sector to accrue long service leave based on time in the industry, rather than time with a single employer. The PLSL Scheme is managed by the NSW Long Service Corporation.
Registration is mandatory for eligible employers. Are you registered?
Why Is It Important for Allied Health Providers?
Does your business or organisation deliver allied health services in the state of New South Wales (NSW)?
From 1 July 2025, some allied health providers with employees delivering services in NSW may need to register in the PLSL Scheme to avoid penalties and back payments.
Key Employer Obligations Under the Scheme
Allied health providers may need to seek compliance guidance to meet their obligations under the Portable Long Service Leave Act 2024.
The NSW Long Service Corporation has confirmed that allied health roles are not automatically covered by the portable long service leave scheme. Eligibility depends on the predominant purpose of the employer, not the profession or whether services are NDIS-funded.
Allied health professionals will be in scope where they are employed by organisations whose core purpose is delivering community services (including disability service providers that identify as community service organisations), but will be out of scope where they work in private health practices whose primary purpose is clinical service delivery.
For organisations that are not clearly private health practices and have mixed or community-facing functions, employers must self-assess their predominant purpose.
Where an organisation is not predominantly a community services provider, eligibility may depend on whether 50% or more of the role supports community services.
