PERSONAL/CARER’S AND COMPASSIONATE LEAVE. 52.1 Employees are entitled to personal/carers and compassionate leave in accordance with the provisions of the NES, subject to the requirements set out in this clause.
52.2 Employees (excluding casual Employees) are entitled to accrue paid personal/carer’s leave in accordance with the NES. The NES presently prescribes 10 days of paid personal/ carer’s leave for each year of service with his/her employer.
52.3 An Employee is entitled to 2 days of compassionate leave for each occasion (a permissible occasion):
(a) when a member of the Employee’s immediate family, or a member of the Employee’s household:
(i) contracts or develops a personal illness that poses a serious threat to his or her life; or
(ii) sustains a personal injury that poses a threat to his or her life; or
(iii) dies
(b) a child is stillborn, where the child would have been a member of the employee's immediate family, or a member of the employee's household, if the child had been born alive; or
(c) the employee, or the employee's spouse or de facto partner, has a miscarriage.
52.4 Where an Employee’s spouse or de facto partner dies, the Employee, in lieu of the entitlement set out clause 52.3, is entitled to 10 days’ compassionate leave.
52.5 The compassionate leave entitlement for Employees (excluding casual Employees) is paid at the Base Rate.
52.6 Casual Employees have no entitlement to paid personal/carer’s leave. A casual Employee is entitled to
(i) compassionate leave in accordance with the above. The entitlement for casuals is unpaid; and
(ii) unpaid carer’s leave in accordance with the NES.
52.7 Estia Health may (but need not) require written evidence confirming an Employee’s eligibility to take paid or unpaid personal/carer’s leave, or compassionate leave within a reasonable time after being notified of an Employee’s absence, wherever:
(a) the absence is for 2 or more consecutive days, or occurs on or immediately before or after a Public Holiday, RDO, ADO or a day upon which the Employee was due to take pre-approved leave (such as annual leave);
(b) the Employee has already taken at least 5 days of personal/carer’s leave during the preceding 12 months; or
(c) the leave has been taken in circumstances that would reasonably lead the employer to question its veracity. In such circumstances,
(i) the employer will outline to the employee in writing the concern; and provide a timeframe for review;
(ii) Employees will be given the opportunity to respond in writing to the concerns – if genui...
PERSONAL/CARER’S AND COMPASSIONATE LEAVE. (a) The Executive will be entitled to 10 days’ paid personal/carer’s leave per year of service if the Executive:
(i) cannot attend work due to illness; or
(ii) needs to care or support an immediate family member or other member of the Executive’s household due to illness or emergency.
(b) Untaken paid personal/xxxxx’s leave accumulates from year to year but will not be paid out on termination.
(c) In addition, the Executive will be granted 2 days’ unpaid carer’s leave if the Executive has exhausted paid personal/carer’s leave and the Executive provides proof in accordance with clause 4.3(e). Rights under this clause arise each time the Employee needs to care for or support an immediate family member or other member of the Employee’s household due to illness or emergency.
(d) The Executive is entitled to 2 days’ paid compassionate leave in the event of the death or a serious life-threatening illness or injury of an immediate family member or member of the Executive’s household. Untaken compassionate leave does not accumulate from year to year and will not be paid out if the Executive’s employment ends.
(e) The Employer may require the Executive to provide a medical certificate or, if it is not reasonably practicable to do so, a statutory declaration for any absence from work for personal/carer’s or compassionate leave.
(f) The Executive must give the Employer notice of the Executive’s intention to take personal/carer’s or compassionate as soon as practicable. The Employee must also advise the Employer of the period or expected period of leave.
PERSONAL/CARER’S AND COMPASSIONATE LEAVE. 17.1 Personal/xxxxx’s leave and compassionate leave are provided for in the NES.
PERSONAL/CARER’S AND COMPASSIONATE LEAVE. 19.1 Personal leave
PERSONAL/CARER’S AND COMPASSIONATE LEAVE. 15.1 Entitlement
i) Personal Leave is provided in accordance with NES
ii) Personal leave includes sick leave and xxxxx’s leave
iii) An employee absent from work by reason of personal illness or injury (not being illness or injury resulting out of employee’s misconduct or default or from injury arising out of or in the course of employment) is entitled to leave of absence, without deduction of pay, subject to the following conditions and limitations.
PERSONAL/CARER’S AND COMPASSIONATE LEAVE. 19.1 Employees' entitlements to paid and unpaid personal/xxxxx's leave and compassionate leave are prescribed by with the NES.
19.2 For each year of service with the Employer, an Ongoing Employee and Maximum-term Employee is entitled to 12 days paid personal/carer's leave.
19.3 Other than in respect of the first 2 days personal/carer's leave that is taken by the Employee in any year, reasonable evidence may be required by the Employer to support applications for personal/carer's leave, including (but not limited to):
(a) absences of more than 1 day, or
(b) an absence adjacent to a weekend, public holiday or period of annual or long service leave. If reasonable evidence is not provided on request, the Employer will not approve the application for personal/carer's leave.
PERSONAL/CARER’S AND COMPASSIONATE LEAVE. Personal/xxxxx’s leave and compassionate leave are provided for in the NES.
PERSONAL/CARER’S AND COMPASSIONATE LEAVE. 23.1 Employees are entitled to personal leave in accordance with this clause: Paid Personal Leave Paid
PERSONAL/CARER’S AND COMPASSIONATE LEAVE. 31.1 Subject to the remainder of this clause 31, personal/carer’s is provided to employees in accordance with the NES. Currently, the NES provides as follows:
31.1.1 Entitlement to Paid Personal / Carer’s Leave for Weekly Employees
PERSONAL/CARER’S AND COMPASSIONATE LEAVE. The provisions of Sub clauses 25.1 to 25.9 below apply to full-time employees and to part- time employees (on a pro rata basis) and the provisions of Sub clause 25.10 below apply to casual employees.
