(1) |
This subclause applies to an employee: |
(a) |
who has been in the employment of an employer for longer than four months, and |
(b) |
who works for at least four days a week for that employer. |
(c) |
During each annual leave cycle, an employer, at the request of an employee,must grant the employee three days' paid leave, which the employee is entitled to take: |
(i) |
when the employee's child, spouse or biological grandparent is sick, or |
(ii) |
in the event of the death of an employee's spouse or life partner; or the employee's parent, adoptive parent, grandparent, child, adopted child, grandchild or sibling |
[Clause 6(6.4)(1)(c)(i) substituted by section 3(3.1) of Notice No. R.4039, GG49618, dated 10 November 2023]
(2) |
Subject to subclause (1), 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 pay day. |
(3) |
An employee may take family responsibility leave in respect of the whole or a part of a day. |
(4) |
Before paying an employee for leave in terms of this clause, an employer may require reasonable proof of an event contemplated in subclause (1) for which the leave was required. |
(5) |
An employee’s unused entitlement to leave in terms of this clause will lapse at the end of the annual leave cycle in which it accrues. |