Common use of Personal Leave Injury and Sickness Clause in Contracts

Personal Leave Injury and Sickness. Entitlement to personal leave 47.1 An employee (other than a casual employee) who has a personal leave credit is entitled to personal leave if the employee is too sick to work. Accumulation of personal leave entitlement 47.2 A full-time employee will receive 12 days (or the equivalent hours) per annum for the purposes of personal leave. 47.3 A part-time employee will be credited personal leave on a pro-rata basis. 47.4 Personal leave will be credited for individual employees based on their service year. Where an employee as at the date of approval of this Enterprise Agreement has their personal leave credited as at 1 July, that arrangement will continue in place. 47.5 An employee's personal leave accumulates from year to year and any personal leave taken by the employee is deducted from the employee's personal leave credit. Conditions for payment of personal leave 47.6 The employee is not entitled to payment for personal leave unless: 47.7 The employee gives the employer notice of the sickness, its nature and estimated duration before the period for which personal leave is sought begins (but if the nature or sudden onset of the sickness makes it impracticable to give the notice before the period begins, the notice is validly given if given as soon as practicable and not later than 24 hours after the period begins); and 47.8 The employee, at the request of the employer, provides a medical certificate or other reasonable evidence of sickness. This clause is to be read in conjunction with and does not prevail over clauses in related Awards that deal with the production of medical certificates in the case of absence from work on account of personal illness or injury. 47.9 The employee is entitled to payment at the employee's ordinary rate of pay (not including payments in the nature of penalty rates, overtime, allowances or loadings) for a period of personal leave. Exemptions 47.10 The provisions of sub-clause 47.2 do not apply to employees whose current annual entitlement to personal leave - injury and sickness exceeds 91.20 hours per annum.