Family and Domestic Violence Leave and Workplace Support Record

Detects HR, payroll and timesheet records showing that a named or numbered employee has taken or requested family and domestic violence (FDV) leave, and employee DFV support and workplace safety plans. Under Fair Work Act 2009 ss106A-106E every national-system employee is entitled to 10 days of paid FDV leave, and Fair Work Regulations 2009 reg 3.48 prevents FDV leave from being shown on pay slips because the record itself discloses that the employee is experiencing violence. Queensland public sector and state-system employees have DFV leave under the Industrial Relations Act 2016 (Qld) ss 52-54, and Queensland public service employees have additional support under Public Service Commission Directive 03/20 "Support for employees affected by domestic and family violence": confidentiality of disclosures, risk assessment and safety planning, changes to work location, hours, email addresses and telephone numbers, removal of public contact details, secure parking, flexible working arrangements, and support to transfer or relocate. Enterprise agreements and other directives and policies use the same terms.

Type: regex
Engine: boost_regex
Confidence: medium
Confidence justification: Medium: FDV leave and DFV support terms are common in enterprise agreements, directives, HR policy and payroll setup, so enforce tiers require a populated employee field and exclude directive/policy text. Records that identify the employee only by name in free text, without a field label, fall to discovery. Workplace safety-plan field labels are not published by the directive, so the support structure is a generic populated-field shape built from the support options the directive lists. Whether Directive 03/20 has been replaced under the Public Sector Act 2022 was not verified; the anchor is kept because existing records cite it. 85/75 are heuristic evidence tiers, not measured accuracy.
Jurisdictions: au
Regulations: Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth), Fair Work Regulations 2009 (Cth), Industrial Relations Act 2016 (Qld), Privacy Act 1988 (Cth), Information Privacy Act 2009 (Qld)
Frameworks: QGISCF
Data categories: pii, employment
Scope: narrow
Risk rating: 8
Platform compatibility: Purview: Compatible, GCP DLP: Compatible, Macie: Unsupported, Zscaler: Compatible, Palo Alto: Degraded, Netskope: Unsupported

Pattern

(?i)\b(?:paid\s+)?(?:family\s+and\s+domestic\s+violence|domestic\s+and\s+family\s+violence|domestic\s+violence|family\s+violence)\s+leave\b|\b(?:FDV|DFV)\s+leave\b|\bFDVL\b|\b(?:workplace|DFV|FDV)\s+safety\s+plan\b|\b(?:DFV|FDV|(?:domestic\s+and\s+family|family\s+and\s+domestic)\s+violence)\s+(?:support\s+(?:plan|options?|arrangements?|request)|workplace\s+(?:support|adjustments?))\b|\bemployees?\s+affected\s+by\s+(?:domestic\s+and\s+family|family\s+and\s+domestic)\s+violence\b|\bDirective\s+0?3/20\b|\bFair\s+Work\s+Act(?:\s+2009)?(?:\s*\(Cth\))?,?\s+(?:s|ss|section|sections)\.?\s*106[A-E]\b|\bIndustrial\s+Relations\s+Act\s+2016(?:\s*\(Qld\))?,?\s+(?:s|ss|section|sections)\.?\s*5[234]\b

Corroborative evidence keywords

family and domestic violence leave, leave request, leave balance, payroll, timesheet, employee, workplace safety plan, Directive 03/20, domestic violence, family violence, domestic and family violence, family and domestic violence, intimate partner violence, [object Object], [object Object], coercive control, financial abuse, technology-facilitated abuse, non-fatal strangulation, strangulation (+60 more)

Proximity: 300 characters

Should match

Leave request Employee name: Avery Teston Employee ID: 4471820 Leave type: Family and domestic violence leave (paid) Start date: 15/09/2026 End date: 17/09/2026 Approved by: Jordan Staffson — Approved FDV leave request
Timesheet adjustment. Staff number: P0048213. FDV leave taken 7.6 hours on 03/09/2026. Record against confidential leave code only; do not show on payslip. — Timesheet entry for FDV leave
HR case note - Employee ID: 5520117. Manager advised employee has requested domestic and family violence leave and a change of work location. Leave dates: 22/09/2026 to 26/09/2026. — HR case note recording DFV leave and dates across a line break
Workplace safety plan - CONFIDENTIAL (Directive 03/20) Employee name: Sam Teston Position number: 30012877 Work location changed to: Toowoomba regional office from 06/10/2026 New work phone number: 07 4600 1234 (unlisted) Reception alerted; photo of the respondent held at the front desk. Respondent: Jordan Teston Review date: 06/01/2027 — Directive 03/20 workplace safety plan with relocation, changed contact details and security alert (85 tier)
Employee ID: 7730251. DFV support plan agreed with the employee; details held by HR only. — DFV support plan with a populated employee number only (75 tier)
Pay slip Employee: Alex Teston Employee number: 0091827 Pay period: 01/09/2026 to 14/09/2026 FDV leave 15.2 hrs $684.00 — Pay slip that shows FDV leave (reg 3.48 compliance breach) with a populated employee (75 tier)

Should not match

Under the Fair Work Act 2009, all employees, including casuals, are entitled to 10 days of paid family and domestic violence leave in each 12-month period. — Entitlement description from guidance
Clause 34.5 Domestic and family violence leave. An employee experiencing domestic and family violence is entitled to paid leave in accordance with the Directive. — Enterprise agreement clause
Pay code: 0735 Description: FDV leave Payslip display: Ordinary hours Employee: __________ — Payroll configuration row with a blank employee field
Support for employees affected by domestic and family violence Directive 03/20 | Supersedes: 04/15 The chief executive will conduct risk assessments and implement workplace safety needs and arrangements such as increased security measures; changes to email addresses and telephone numbers and email blocking; secure parking; support to transfer or relocate, where practicable. Leave applications should be processed in such a way as to maximise confidentiality. — Directive 03/20 text (decoy, 65 only)
QH-POL-391 Support for employees affected by domestic and family violence. Managers should develop a workplace safety plan with the employee, which may include a change of work location, secure parking and email blocking. — Agency DFV support policy (decoy, 65 only)
Workplace safety plan Employee name: __________ Work location changed to: __________ Respondent: __________ Review date: ___/___/____ — Blank workplace safety plan form (65 only)
Under the Fair Work Act 2009 ss 106A-106E, employers must keep information about an employee's family and domestic violence leave confidential where possible, and pay slips must not show it. — Fair Work Act guidance paraphrase (65 only)

Known false positives

Enterprise agreements, HR policies, Directive 03/20, agency DFV support policies and Fair Work guidance describing the entitlement and support options. Mitigation: Enforce tiers require a populated employee field; policy text has none. Directive/policy exclusion group (This directive, this policy applies, Supersedes, QH-POL, information sheet).
Payroll system configuration (leave type and pay code tables). Mitigation: Configuration tables have no employee value; blank and placeholder values are rejected.
Blank safety-plan and support-request forms. Mitigation: Workplace-support and employee fields reject blank lines, bracket placeholders and undated review lines.

References

Collections

Australian Domestic and Family Violence Records