| (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 a week for that employer. |
| (2) |
An employer must grant an employee, during each annual leave cycle, at the request of an employee, four day's 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 parent, adoptive parent, grandparent, child, adopted child, grandchild or sibling. |
[Sectoral Determination 2, clause 20(2) substituted by section 5 of Notice No. R. 757, GG 33505, dated 27 August 2010]
| (3) |
Subject to subclause (5), an employer must pay an employee for a day's family 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 clause lapses at the end of the annual leave cycle in which it accrues. |
Contingency Fees Act, 1997
