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Labour Relations Act, 1995 (Act No. 66 of 1995)

Notices

Bargaining Council for the Laundry Cleaning and Dyeing Industry

Kwa Zulu Natal

Extension to Non-Parties of the Main Collective Agreement

Part D : Leave

24. Family Responsibility Leave

 

24.1 This clause applies to an employee—
(a) who has been in employment with an employer for longer than four months; and
(b) who works fur at least four days a week for the employer

 

24.2 An employer must grant an employee, during each annual leave cycle, at the request of the employee, 5 days paid leave to take—
(a) when the employee's child is born
(b) when the employee's child is sick; or
(c) in the event of death of—
(i) the employee's spouse or life partner; or
(ii) the employee's parents, adoptive parents, grandparents, child, adopted child, grand child or sibling.

 

24.3 An employer must pay an employee for one day's family responsibility leave—
(a) the wage the employee would ordinarily have received for work on that that day ; and
(b) on the employee's usual pay day.

 

24.4 An employee may take family responsibility leave in respect of the whole or part of a day.

 

24.5 Before paying an employee for leave in terms of this section, an employer may require reasonable proof of an event contemplated in sub-clause 24.2 for which the leave was required.

 

24.5 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.