Common use of Casual Employees – Caring responsibilities Clause in Contracts

Casual Employees – Caring responsibilities. (a) Casual Employees are entitled to be unavailable to attend work or to leave work: (i) if they need to care for members of their immediate family or household who are sick and require care and support, or who require care due to an unexpected emergency, or the birth of a child; or (ii) upon the death of an immediate family or household member. (b) The Employer and the Employee will agree on the period for which the Employee will be entitled to be unavailable to attend work. In the absence of agreement, the Employee is entitled to be absent from work for up to two (2) days per occasion. The casual Employee is not entitled to any payment for the period of absence. (c) The Employer will require the casual Employee to provide satisfactory evidence to support the taking of this leave. (d) An Employer must not fail to re-engage a casual Employee because the Employee accessed the entitlements provided for in this clause. The rights of the Employer to engage or not engage a casual Employee are otherwise not affected.