Personal Leave to Care for an Immediate Family or Household Member. (a) An employee is entitled to use accrued personal leave, each year to provide care or support for members of their immediate family or household who are sick and require care or support or who require care or support due to an unexpected emergency, subject to the conditions set out in this clause. Leave may be taken for part of a single day. Each day or part of a day of personal leave taken is to be deducted from the amount of personal leave provided in Clause 54.2. There is no maximum amount of paid Personal Leave that an Employee may take as Xxxxx’s Leave in any one year, provided the Employee has accrued sufficient personal leave to take the carer’ leave absences as paid leave. Should the NES be changed in the future in relation to this issue then this Agreement will apply the NES.
(b) Where an Employee has exhausted all paid personal leave entitlements, they are entitled to take unpaid personal leave to provide care or support for members of their immediate family or household who are sick and require care or support or who require care due to an unexpected emergency. The Employer and the Employee shall agree on the period. In the absence of agreement, the Employee is entitled to take up to two days (at their ordinary rostered shift length) for each permissible occasion, provided the evidentiary requirements are met.
(c) The entitlement to use personal leave is subject to the Employee being responsible for the care or support of the person concerned.
(d) The Employee must, if required by the employer, establish by production of a medical certificate or statutory declaration, the illness of the person concerned and that the illness is such as to require care or support by another.
(e) In normal circumstances an employee must not take Xxxxx’s Leave under this clause where another person has taken leave to provide care or support for the same person.
(f) The Employee must, where practicable, give the Employer:
(i) notice prior to the absence of the intention to take leave,
(ii) the name of the person requiring care or support and their relationship to the Employee,
(iii) the reasons for taking such leave; and
(iv) the estimated length of absence.
(g) If it is not practicable for the employee to give prior notice of absence, the Employee must notify the employer by telephone of such absence at the first opportunity on the day of absence.
Personal Leave to Care for an Immediate Family or Household Member. (a) An employee (other than a casual employee) is entitled to use personal leave, including accrued leave each year, to provide care or support to a member of their immediate family or household, because of a personal illness, injury or unexpected emergency affecting the member.
Personal Leave to Care for an Immediate Family or Household Member. (a) An employee is entitled to use accrued personal leave, each year to provide care or support for members of their immediate family or household who are sick and require care or support or who require care or support due to an unexpected emergency, subject to the conditions set out in this clause. Leave may be taken for part of a single day. Each day or part of a day of personal leave taken is to be deducted from the amount of personal leave provided in Clause 55.2.
(b) Where an Employee has exhausted all paid personal leave entitlements, they are entitled to take unpaid personal leave to provide care or support for members of their immediate family or household who are sick and require care or support or who require care due to an unexpected emergency. The Employer and the Employee shall agree on the period. In the absence of agreement, the Employee is entitled to take up to two days (at their ordinary rostered shift length) for each permissible occasion, provided the evidentiary requirements are met.
(c) The Employee must, if required by the employer, establish by production of a medical certificate or statutory declaration, the general nature of the situation requiring care or support and that the illness/injury is such as to require care or support by another.
(d) The Employee must, where practicable, give the Employer:
(i) notice prior to the absence of the intention to take leave,
(ii) the name of the person requiring care or support and their relationship to the Employee,
(iii) the reasons for taking such leave; and
(iv) the estimated length of absence.
(e) If it is not practicable for the employee to give prior notice of absence, the Employee must notify the employer by telephone of such absence at the first opportunity on the day of absence.
Personal Leave to Care for an Immediate Family or Household Member. An employee is entitled to use the full amount of their Personal Leave entitlement, including accrued leave, each year to care for members of their immediate family or household who are sick and require care and support or who require care due to an unexpected emergency, subject to the conditions set out in this clause.
Personal Leave to Care for an Immediate Family or Household Member. (a) Subject to 16.5(b) and 16.5(c), a full-time employee is entitled to use their personal leave to care for members of their immediate family or household who are sick and require care and support or who require care due to an unexpected emergency.
(b) The entitlement in 16.5
(a) is subject to the employee being responsible for the care and support of the person concerned. In normal circumstances an employee is not entitled to take leave for this purpose where another person has taken leave to care for the same person.
(c) Except as provided for in 16.5(d), an employee is entitled to use up to 80 hours of their accrued personal leave in a year for the purposes set out in 16.5(a).
(i) These limits apply to the employee’s total accrued personal leave which includes any untaken personal leave from the current year’s entitlement and any untaken personal leave which has accumulated from previous years.
(d) By agreement between an employer and an individual employee, the employee may access an additional amount of their accrued personal leave for the purposes set out in 16.5(a), beyond the relevant limit set out in 16.5(c). In such circumstances, the employer and the employee shall agree upon the additional amount that may be accessed.
Personal Leave to Care for an Immediate Family or Household Member. (a) Subject to 51.7(b) and 51.7(c), a full-time employee is entitled to use their personal leave to care for members of their immediate family or household who are sick and require care and support or who require care due to an unexpected emergency.
(b) The entitlement in 51.7(a) is subject to the employee being responsible for the care and support of the person concerned. In normal circumstances an employee is not entitled to take leave for this purpose where another person has taken leave to care for the same person.
(c) Except as provided for in 51.7(e), not more than 76 hours of personal leave can be used in a year by an employee for the purposes set out in (a). Provided that, an employee who normally works eight or more hours per day so as to provide a rostered day(s) off in a work cycle is entitled to use up to 80 hours of their accrued personal leave in a year for the purposes set out in 51.7(a).
(d) These limits apply to the employee’s total accrued personal leave which includes any untaken personal leave from the current year’s entitlement and any untaken personal leave which has accumulated from previous years.
(e) By agreement between an employer and an individual employee, the employee may access an additional amount of their accrued personal leave for the purposes set out in 51.7(a), beyond the relevant limit set out in 51.7(c). In such circumstances, the employer and the employee shall agree upon the additional amount that may be accessed.
Personal Leave to Care for an Immediate Family or Household Member. (a) Use of personal leave
(i) Subject to 5.3.4, an employee is entitled to use their personal leave to care for members of their immediate family or household who are sick and require care and support or who require care due to an unexpected emergency.
(ii) When taking leave to care for members of their immediate family or household who are sick and require care and support, the employee must, if required by the employer, establish by production of a medical certificate or statutory declaration, the illness of the person concerned and that such illness requires care by the employee.
(iii) When taking leave to care for members of their immediate family or household who require care due to an unexpected emergency, the employee must, if required by the employer, establish by production of documentation acceptable to the employer or a statutory declaration, the nature of the emergency and that such emergency resulted in the person concerned requiring care by the employee.
Personal Leave to Care for an Immediate Family or Household Member. 12.6.1 An employee is entitled to paid leave for absence each year due to care for members of their immediate family or household who are sick and require care and support or who require care due to an unexpected emergency subject to the conditions of this clause.
12.6.2 The entitlement to use personal leave is subject to the employee being responsible for the care of the person concerned.
12.6.3 The employee must, if required by MWHS, establish by production of a medical certificate or statutory declaration, the illness of the person concerned and that the illness is such as to require care by another.
12.6.4 When taking leave to care for members of their immediate family or household who require care due to an unexpected emergency the employee must, if required by MWHS, establish by production of documentation acceptable to MWHS or a statutory declaration, the nature of the emergency and that such emergency resulted in the person concerned requiring care by the employee.
12.6.5 In normal circumstances an employee must not take personal leave under this clause where another person has taken leave to care for the same person.
12.6.6 The employee must, where practicable, give MWHS notice prior to the absence of the intention to take leave, the name of the person requiring care and their relationship to the employee, the reasons for taking such leave and the estimated length of absence. If it is not practicable for the employee to give prior notice, the employee must notify MWHS by telephone of such absence at the first opportunity on the day of absence.
12.6.7 Each day or part of a day of personal leave taken in accordance with 12.4.1 is to be deducted from the amount of personal leave provided in 12.1.
12.6.8 An employee is entitled to use accumulated personal leave for personal injury or illness leave as paid personal leave to care for members of their immediate family or household if the employee has used the current year’s leave entitlement.
12.6.9 Payment for such leave shall be subject to the limitations and requirements in 12.4.3 above except that insofar as proof of illness or injury is required, such proof will relate to the person for whom the employee is caring.
Personal Leave to Care for an Immediate Family or Household Member. The entitlement in Clause 25.2 a) (ii) is subject to the employee being responsible for the care and support of the person concerned. In normal circumstances an employee is not entitled to take leave for this purpose where another person has taken leave to care for the same person.
