Paid Compassionate Leave. The employee (other than a casual employee) is entitled to a period of two days of paid compassionate leave for each occasion where a member of the employee’s immediate family or household either has a personal illness or injury that poses a serious threat to the life of the member, or dies. Payment for compassionate leave will be made at the ordinary rate of pay the employee receives immediately before the period of compassionate leave begins. Paid compassionate leave counts as service for all purposes. The following are, for the purposes of this clause, members of an employee’s immediate family: ▪ a spouse (including a former spouse, de facto spouse or former de facto spouse), child, parent, grandparent, grandchild or sibling of the employee; and ▪ a child, parent, grandparent, grandchild or sibling of a spouse of the employee.
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Samples: Employee Collective Agreement, Employee Collective Agreement
Paid Compassionate Leave. The employee (other than a casual employee) is entitled to a period of two days of paid compassionate leave for each occasion where a member of the employee’s immediate family or household either has a personal illness or injury that poses a serious threat to the life of the member, or dies. Payment for compassionate leave will be made at the ordinary rate of pay the employee receives immediately before the period of compassionate leave begins. Paid compassionate leave counts as service for all purposes. The following are, for the purposes of this clause, members of an employee’s immediate family: ▪ • a spouse (including a former spouse, de facto spouse or former de facto spouse), child, parent, grandparent, grandchild or sibling of the employee; and ▪ • a child, parent, grandparent, grandchild or sibling of a spouse of the employee.
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Samples: Employee Collective Agreement, Employee Collective Agreement
