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Dental Technicians Act, 1979 (Act No. 19 of 1979)

Board Notices

Notice Concerning the Conditions of Employment of Dental Technicians who are Employees

10. Family Responsibility

 

10.1 Any employee who has been in employment with the employer for longer than 4 (four) months and who works for at least 4 (four) days a week for that employer, is entitled to leave in terms of this clause.

 

10.2 At the request of the employee, an employer must grant an employee during each annual leave cycle 3 (three) days paid leave, which the employee is entitled to take—
(a) when his/her child is born;
(b) when his/her child is sick; or
(c) in the event of the death of
(1) his/her spouse or life partner; or
(2) his/her parent, grandparent, child, grandchild or sibling.

 

10.3 An employer must pay an employee for a day's family responsibility leave the wage that the employee would ordinarily have received for work on that day and pay it on the employee's usual pay day: Provided that before paying an employee for leave in terms of this clause, an employer may require reasonable proof of an event contemplated in sub-clause (2) for which the leave has required.

 

10.4 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.