Patents Act, 1978
R 385
Labour Relations Act, 1995 (Act No. 66 of 1995)NoticesNational Bargaining Council for the Chemical IndustryPharmaceutical SectorSubstantive Agreement 2025/2027Extension to Non-parties of the Pharmaceutical Sector Collective AgreementChapter 313. Compassionate Leave |
| 13.1 | Compassionate leave of up to 5 (five) days per occasion Will be granted as a minimum standard. |
| 13.2 | For the purposes of this Agreement, the general definition of "occasion" will be"death of employee's spouse or life partner, or the employee's parent, adoptive parent, child, adopted child". Specific definitions will be as contained in existing plant level agreement, where these are more specific than the definition contained in this Clause. |
| 13.3 | Any other conditions of existing plant level agreements will continue to apply. |
| 13.4 | Any compassionate leave taken in terms of agreements or plant level agreement will be off set against the Family Responsibility Leave entitlement laid down in the Basic Conditions of Employment Act 1997. |