ACTU proposes portable leave scheme

Trade unions are pushing for a portable scheme that would allow workers to transfer their leave entitlements from job to job.

Under the proposal put to a review of the workplace relations system, accrued annual and sick leave would follow workers to a new job.

"We would look at a pooled arrangement," ACTU secretary Dave Oliver told ABC radio on Wednesday, citing the superannuation system as an example of how it would work.