Commentary on Sections Part 8 – Time Off Work: Ante-Natal Care Etc Section 57ZP: Right to unpaid time off to attend adoption appointments: agency workers
685.Section 57ZP makes provision for agency workers to take unpaid time off to attend adoption appointments that is equivalent to the right for employees to take unpaid time off under section 57ZL. Subsection (10) provides that for the purposes of this section the working hours of an agency worker are any time when he or she is required to be at work (temporarily) for the hirer.