PANDEMIC RELATED ISOLATION LEAVE.
a) An employee is entitled to seven (7) days Paid Isolation Leave per annum to cover an absence from work due to a Pandemic Related Isolation Requirement, with access to a maximum of 5 days leave per pandemic related isolation.
b) For the purpose of this clause, “Pandemic Related Isolation Requirement” arises in circumstances where an employee is required to self-isolate or quarantine in accordance with any order and/or direction issued by the Company, the Commonwealth Government or the Government of a State or Territory of Australia.
c) For the avoidance of doubt;
(i) an employee is not taken to be on personal leave when on Pandemic Related Isolation Leave;
(ii) Paid Isolation Leave is to be paid for ordinary hours of work at an employee’s all-purpose hourly rate of pay (the same rate as would apply if the leave were personal leave); and
(iii) Paid Isolation Leave does not accumulate from year-to-year and will not be paid on Termination.
d) As soon as practicable after an employee becomes entitled to Paid Isolation Leave, the affected employee must provide the Company with notice that the Employee is required to self-isolate or quarantine.
e) At the request of the Company an employee must provide the Company evidence that would satisfy a reasonable person that the Employee is required to self-isolate or quarantine in accordance with any order and/or direction issued by the Company, the Commonwealth Government or the Government of a State or Territory of Australia.
f) Where an Employee has accessed either Community Service leave or Natural Disaster leave in the calendar year, then the entitlement to seven (7) paid days off in that calendar year, will be reduced by the number of paid days the employee has taken off for Community Service Leave or Natural Disaster leave in that calendar year.
PANDEMIC RELATED ISOLATION LEAVE a) From the commencement of this Agreement, an employee covered by this Agreement is entitled to Pandemic Related Isolation Leave to cover an absence from work due to a Pandemic Related Isolation Requirement.
b) For the purpose of this clause, “Pandemic Related Isolation Requirement” arises in circumstances where an employee is required to self-isolate or quarantine in accordance with any order and/or direction issued by the Employer, a State Government or the Commonwealth Government.
c) As soon as practicable, the affected employee is to provide the Employer with evidence that would satisfy a reasonable person as to the reason why they are required to self-isolate or quarantine.
d) Where an employee is required to self-isolate as a consequence of the employee being ill, the first 2.5 days of the isolation period will be treated as personal leave and the remainder of the isolation period will be treated as Pandemic Related Isolation Leave.
e) An Employee will be entitled to five days of paid Pandemic Related Isolation Leave per annum.
f) For the avoidance of doubt;
i. An employee is not taken to be on personal leave when on Pandemic Related Isolation Leave;
ii. Paid Pandemic Related Isolation Leave is to be paid on the ordinary hours of work at an employee’s hourly rate of pay, the same as taking personal leave; and
iii. Paid Pandemic Related Isolation Leave is not accumulative and will not be paid out on Termination.
