South African Institute for Drug Free Sport Act, 1997
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Labour Relations Act, 1995 (Act No. 66 of 1995)NoticesBargaining Council for the Meat Trade, GautengMain Collective Agreement to Non-Parties14. Family Responsibility Leave |
| (1) | This clause applies to an employee— |
| (a) | who has been in employment with an employer for longer than four months; and |
| (b) | who works for at least four days per week for that employer. |
| (2) | An employer shall grant an employee, during each annual leave cycle, at the request of the employee, three days' paid leave, which the employee is entitled to take— |
| (a) | when the employee's child is born; |
| (b) | when the employee's child is sick; or |
| (c) | in the event of the death of |
| (i) | the employee's spouse or life partner; or |
| (ii) | the employee's parents, adoptive parent, grandparent, child, adopted child, grandchild or sibling. |
| (3) | Subject to clause (5), an employer shall pay an employee for a day's responsibility leave— |
| (a) | the wage the employee would ordinarily have received for work on that day; and |
| (b) | on the employee's usual payday. |
| (4) | An employee may take family responsibility leave in respect of the whole or part of a day. |
| (5) | Before paying an employee for leave in terms of this clause, an employer may require reasonable proof of an event contemplated in subclause (2) for which the leave was required. |
| (6) | An employee's unused entitlement to leave in terms of this section lapses at the end of the annual leave cycle in which it accrues. |
| (7) | A collective agreement may vary the number of days and the circumstances under which leave is to be granted in terms of this section. |
