Pandemic Leave.
5.12.1 An employee is entitled to 20 days of paid pandemic leave per calendar year. This leave is in addition to any other form of leave to which an employee is entitled.
5.12.2 A health pandemic means a critical health issue, as identified by a declaration of a public health emergency made under Section 319 of the Public Health Act 2005 with respect to an actual or potential health pandemic.
5.12.3 Pandemic leave is available to full-time, part time and casual employees.
5.12.4 An employee may take paid leave if any of the following occur:
(a) The employee has been diagnosed with an infection during a health pandemic.
(b) The employee is unable to undertake work duties because the kindergarten has been shut down because of a health pandemic.
(c) The employee is subject to self-isolation or quarantine measures in accordance with a Commonwealth or State government policy.
(d) The employee is caring for another person who:
(i) has been diagnosed with an infection during a health pandemic; or
(ii) is subject to self-isolation or quarantine measures in accordance with a Commonwealth or State government policy.
(e) The employee has a child that attends a school or childcare centre that is closed due to a health pandemic.
5.12.5 Pandemic leave does not accumulate from year to year.
5.12.6 Where an employee exhausts their entitlement to pandemic leave but otherwise meets the criteria for the taking of such leave, the employee may apply for, and the employer will approve, the taking of leave pursuant to a different part of this agreement.
5.12.7 In the case of casual employees, the employee shall be paid pandemic leave at a daily rate of pay equal to the average of the daily rates of pay paid to the employee over the previous 12 month period (or such lesser period for which the employee has been employed).
Pandemic Leave. Council will provide up to 20 days on full pay each calendar year for pandemic leave. This leave is to cover employees who are unable to attend the workplace or complete their duties from another location. It will be available on application to Payroll and managed in accordance with the Procedure that is approved by the Executive Leadership Team, Pandemic leave will be in addition to personal leave. Balances do not accrue each year and there is no provision for an employee to be paid out for any accruals.
Pandemic Leave. 1. The District will give 5 total days designated as pandemic leave to be used each school year.
2. This leave will be non-accumulative. An employee who resigns or is dismissed will not be charged for any use of such leave.
3. This leave is to be used only for circumstances in which an employee or employees are required or strongly advised by the District, statutory, or public health authority policies to miss work in isolation or quarantine as a result of contracting, being exposed to, or exhibiting symptoms of an illness that classifies as a pandemic.
4. This leave is to be used only when the district is responsible for meeting public health measures in a pandemic.
Pandemic Leave. Where an employee is ordinarily able to work but is directed to be tested or to self- isolate by the employer or by public health officials under the public health guidelines that could have a detrimental effect on others and therefore not able to attend work then the employer may, at its discretion either place the employee on suitable alternative duties or direct the employee to take leave on full pay which will not be charged against the employee’s leave entitlements.
Pandemic Leave. 4.11.1 An Employee is entitled to ten (10) business days of paid pandemic leave per calendar year. This leave is in addition to any other form of leave to which an Employee is entitled.
4.11.2 Pandemic leave may be accessed by employees where personal/carer’s leave entitlements under this agreement have been exhausted.
4.11.3 A health pandemic means a critical health issue, as identified by a declaration of a public health emergency made under Section 319 of the Public Health Act 2005 with respect to an actual or potential health pandemic.
Pandemic Leave. 29.1. Subject to clause 29.2, Employee are entitled to access unpaid pandemic leave in accordance with Schedule X of the Nurses Award 2020, as amended from time to time.
29.2. Where the Employer implements a policy that offers more beneficial leave entitlements than under Schedule X of the Nurses Award 2020 the leave entitlements under the Employer’s policy will apply instead of the leave entitlements under Schedule X.
Pandemic Leave. 38.1. As DDHS is a frontline essential service it may continue to operate in either full or partial capacity in the event of a direction given by the Territory or Federal government in response to a pandemic that has been declared by the World Health Organisation (WHO) that affects normal attendance in workplaces. There will be an expectation that staff will remain available to work, unless;
(a) the employee is required by government or medical authorities or on the advice of a medical practitioner to self-isolate and is consequently prevented from working; or
(b) the employee is otherwise prevented from working due to mandatory quarantine; or
(c) the employee is otherwise prevented from working by measures taken by government or medical authorities in response to a pandemic; or
(d) the employee is directed not to work for a period of time by the CEO.
38.2. Should any full-time or part-time employee be prevented from working due to the situations outlined in clauses 38.1 (a) (b) (c) or (d) above, that employee will be entitled to up to 2 weeks Paid Pandemic Leave per calendar year. Employees who do not attend work without reasonable cause will not be entitled to Paid Pandemic Leave.
38.3. Part-time employees' entitlement to Paid Pandemic Leave will be pro-rated based on their agreed ordinary hours of work.
38.4. Should any casual employee be prevented from working due to the situations outlined in clauses 38.1 (a) (b) (c) or (d) above, that employee will be entitled to up to 2 weeks Unpaid Pandemic Leave per calendar year. Employees who do not attend work without reasonable cause will not be entitled to Unpaid Pandemic Leave.
38.5. For the avoidance of doubt, Paid Pandemic Leave and Unpaid Pandemic Leave are not available in circumstances where:
(a) the employee has travelled interstate or overseas for non-work related travel and is unable to travel back to the Northern Territory due to pandemic related restrictions; or
(b) the employee has recently returned from non-work related travel interstate or overseas and is required to complete mandatory quarantine as a result of their travel.
38.6. An employee who is accessing pandemic leave for any of the reasons outlined in clauses 38.1
(a) (b) or (c), must notify DDHS of the taking of leave under this clause and of the reason the employee requires the leave as soon as practicable (which may be a time after the leave has started).
38.7. An employee who has given DDHS notice of taking leave under this clause mus...
Pandemic Leave. (1) The Employer will maintain a policy providing, as a minimum condition, paid leave in addition to other leave entitlements of at least 10 days to Employees, including Casual Employees, who have:
(a) tested positive to the nominated pandemic illness; Or, if the Employee is unable to work from home, and
(b) is the primary career for an immediate family member who has the pandemic illness; or
(c) is required to quarantine following work-related travel; or
(d) is instructed to isolate by the RWWA Wellness & Safety Manager, who has designated the Employee as a close contact due to exposure at an Employer location.
(2) Subject to maintaining the above minimum conditions, any changes to the current policy thereafter will be subject to further consultation with Employees per Clause 31 – Ongoing Consultation of this Agreement.
Pandemic Leave. 1. If a teacher has exhausted his/her leave time under the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (the “FFCRA”) and s/he subsequently is unable to work because:
(a) the teacher has been government ordered to quarantine.
(b) the teacher has been advised by a health care provider to self-quarantine due to being exposed to COVID-19, or
Pandemic Leave. 15.1 The provisions in this clause apply only with respect to a disease that is, at the relevant time, declared to be a pandemic by the Australian Federal Government or the Victorian State Government (Pandemic Disease).
15.2 Full time, part time and Eligible Casual Employees are entitled to paid pandemic leave as set out in this clause on each occasion where the employee is unable to work (including by working from home) because:
15.2.1 the employee is required by law or public health authorities to self- isolate or quarantine because the employee has contracted a Pandemic Disease or has come into contact with a person who has contracted a Pandemic Disease; or
15.2.2 the employee is suffering from symptoms of the Pandemic Disease; or
15.2.3 the Company directs the employee to not attend at work because the employee may be infectious with a Pandemic Disease, for up to a maximum of three occasions in each 6 month period running from January to June and July to December (inclusive).
15.3 The amount of paid pandemic leave to which the employee is entitled on each occasion will be the lesser of:
15.3.1 5 days; or
15.3.2 the time that the employee is unable to work in accordance with clause 15.2.
15.4 Payment for pandemic leave will be at the employee’s ordinary hourly rate of pay per clause 7.4, exclusive of any other penalties, loadings or allowances:
15.4.1 for full time and part time employees, for the rostered ordinary hours the employee would otherwise have worked;
15.4.2 for casual employees, for the rostered ordinary hours the employee would otherwise have worked OR the average hours worked by the employee during the relevant period based on the previous 6 months, whichever is the greater.
15.5 An employee is not entitled to any payment under this clause if, at the time of taking the leave in accordance with clause 15.2, they are on any form of unpaid leave or unpaid absence.
15.6 Where the employee is entitled to a payment from the Federal or State government to compensate the employee for being unable to work due to having contracted or been exposed to a Pandemic Disease, any payment made in accordance with this clause will be reduced by the amount of that government payment.
15.7 An employee must provide evidence to the Company of the circumstances set out in clause 15.2 in order to be entitled to paid xxxxxxxx leave. In the case of COVID-19, an employee must provide evidence of a positive rapid antigen test and of having registered that positive test...
