For an employee working in Victoria for a national-system employer, the long service leave entitlement is governed by Victorian State law: the **Long Service Leave Act 2018 (Vic)**.

The **Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth)** is Commonwealth law and covers national-system employers, but it does **not** create one uniform national long service leave entitlement. Instead, the Fair Work Act preserves or picks up applicable State and Territory long service leave laws unless a specific preserved award/agreement-derived long service leave term applies.

So, for this Victorian employee, the relevant jurisdiction is **Victoria**, and the applicable level of government is the **Victorian State Government**.

Under the **Long Service Leave Act 2018 (Vic)**, the entitlement is generally worked out as:

**Long service leave = 1/60 of the employee’s period of continuous employment**

For example:

- after 7 years:  
  7 years ÷ 60 = 0.1167 years = about **6.1 weeks** of long service leave
- after 10 years:  
  10 years ÷ 60 = 0.1667 years = about **8.7 weeks** of long service leave