PERSONAL/XXXXX’S LEAVE. 7.3.1 All full time employees shall be entitled to accrue paid personal / carer's leave on the basis of 10 days per year (or pro-rata thereof for any period less than one year). Part-time employees are entitled to a pro-rata benefit. Paid personal / carer's leave is cumulative.
7.3.2 All accrued personal leave shall be available for use as carer's leave in accordance with the provisions outlined below.
7.3.3 As part of its commitment to provide a family-friendly workplace, the employer will allow employees to use any amount of accrued personal /xxxxx's leave to enable employees to:
(a) provide primary care to partners, children and/or other household or family members.
(b) attend the funerals of family or household members or close family relatives (if compassionate leave is not available in the circumstances).
7.3.4 The leave provided for in this clause will be granted subject to the following:
(a) The employee must notify the employer of the reason and likely duration of the absence before 7.00 am on the first day of the absence, unless this is not possible due to an unexpected emergency in which case the employee must notify the employer as soon as practicable.
(b) Where circumstances permit, an employee must endeavour to arrange leave to minimise the impact on operational needs.
(c) The provision of appropriate documentary evidence.
1. For sick leave, a medical certificate or if not reasonably practicable to provide a medical certificate- a statutory declaration made by the employee.
2. For xxxxx's leave, a medical certificate in respect to the family or household member, or a statutory declaration by the employee.
3. For compassionate leave, any evidence that the employer reasonably requires.
7.3.5 The employee is not entitled to take more than 10 days of paid xxxxx’s leave (1/26th of the nominal hours worked by the employee) per year, regardless of the amount of personal leave the employee has accumulated over time.
7.3.6 An employee may request to cash out any amount of paid personal/carer’s leave that they have accrued that is excess of 3/52 of the number of nominal hours worked over the past 12 months. For example, an employee working 38 hours per week over 12 months must retain 15 days of paid personal/carer’s leave and may cash out any further personal/carer’s leave that has been accumulated.
7.3.7 In addition to the above, a request to cash out personal/carer’s leave will only be granted where:
(a) the employee elects to cash out their leave in...
PERSONAL/XXXXX’S LEAVE. A pregnant Employee, not then on parental leave, who is suffering from an illness whether related or not to the pregnancy, may take any paid and/or unpaid personal/carer’s leave in accordance with clause 47.
PERSONAL/XXXXX’S LEAVE. (i) A full-time employee is entitled to accrue paid personal / xxxxx's leave on the basis of 10 days per year (or pro-rata thereof for any period less than one year). Part-time employees are entitled to a pro-rata benefit. Paid personal / carer's leave is cumulative.
(ii) All accrued personal leave shall be available for use as carer's leave in accordance with the provisions outlined below.
(iii) As part of its commitment to provide a family-friendly workplace, the employer will allow employees to use any amount of accrued personal /carer's leave to enable employees to:
(a) provide primary care to partners, children and/or other household or family members.
(b) attend the funerals of family or household members or close family relatives (if compassionate leave is not available in the circumstances).
(iv) The leave provide in clause 7.2 will be granted subject to the following:
(a) The employee must notify the employer of the reason and likely duration of the absence before 7.00 am on the first day of the absence, unless this is not possible due to an unexpected emergency in which case the employee must notify the employer as soon as practicable.
(b) Where circumstances permit, an employee must endeavour to arrange leave to minimise the impact on operational needs.
(c) The provision of appropriate documentary evidence.
1. For sick leave, a medical certificate or if not reasonably practicable to provide a medical certificate- a statutory declaration made by the employee.
2. For xxxxx's leave, a medical certificate in respect to the family or household member, or a statutory declaration by the employee.
3. For compassionate leave, any evidence that the employer reasonably requires.
PERSONAL/XXXXX’S LEAVE. This clause applies to Employees, other than Casual Employees.
(a) An Employee is entitled to 10 days of paid Personal/Xxxxx's leave based on the Employee's ordinary hours of duty and the Employee's ordinary rate of pay for each completed year of continuous employment with the Company.
(b) An employee’s entitlement to paid Personal/Xxxxx's leave accrues progressively during the first year of service at the rate of one day of leave on the first day of the month after commencement of employment, and on each successive first of the month up to the maximum credit of 10 days leave for the year.
(c) For the second and subsequent years of employment a credit of a further 10 days of personal/carers leave accrues on the anniversary of employment.
(d) All accrued personal leave shall be available for use as Xxxxx's leave in accordance with the provisions outlined below.
(e) An Employee may take paid Personal/Xxxxx's leave if the leave is taken:
i. Because the Employee is unfit for work because of a personal illness or personal injury, affecting the Employee; or
ii. To provide care or support to a member of the Employee's immediate family, or a member of the Employee's household, who requires care or support because of a personal illness, or personal injury, affecting the member; or,
iii. Because of an unexpected emergency affecting a member of the Employee's family.
(f) An Employee may take unpaid Xxxxx's leave on a particular occasion if the leave is taken to provide care or support as provided for in sub-clause 9.4.6 of this Agreement.
(g) Casual Employees engaged in continuous service with the Company shall be entitled to personal leave limited to the provision of the sub-clause 9.4.3 of this Agreement. Payment for such leave is loaded in the casual hourly rate provided in the relevant Appendices of this Agreement. Accordingly, it is agreed that casual Employees shall not receive further payment for leave taken under this clause.
PERSONAL/XXXXX’S LEAVE. 20.1 Employees (excluding casual employees) when absent from work on account of personal illness or an account of injury by accident, other than that covered by Workers’ Compensation, or where the employee is the primary care giver to a Personal family member, will be entitled to leave of absence, without deduction of pay subject to the following conditions and limitations:-
20.1.1 The employee must within 24 hours of the commencement of such absence inform the Company of their inability to attend for duty, and as far as practicable, state the nature of the injury/illness and the estimated duration of such absence.
20.1.2 The employee must prove to the satisfaction of the Company that he/she was unable (on account of such illness or injury or for carer’s leave purposes) to attend for duty on the day or days for which personal/carer’s leave is claimed.
20.1.3 Provided that an employee who has completed one year of continuous employment with the Company will be credited with a further 10 days (76 hours) personal/carer's leave entitlement at the beginning of the second and each subsequent year.
20.2 Subject to the provision of this clause, an employee will be entitled to claim personal/xxxxx’s pay for two (2) single day absences in any year without substantiating documentation. Thereafter, any single day claimed within the same year will be supported by a statutory declaration. For multiple days claimed at any time, the employee will need to supply to the Company’s satisfaction a certificate from a registered health practitioner supporting the fact that the employee was unable to attend for duty on account of personal illness or injury or for the purposes of carer’s leave.
20.3 Untaken personal/cares leave with the Company will accumulate from year to year for a period of ten (10) years, but no longer.
20.4 If any employee is terminated by the Company and is re-engaged within a period of six (6) months, then the employee’s unclaimed balance of personal/carer’s leave will continue from the date of re-engagement.
20.5 Personal leave entitlements are accrued and provided to employees for the purpose of illness or injury as provided in this Clause. Payment of unused entitlements on termination will not be made.
20.6 For the purposes of this clause personal/carer’s leave shall have corresponding meanings (i.e. read and calculated as the same).
PERSONAL/XXXXX’S LEAVE. (a) employees are entitled to paid personal/xxxxx's leave in accordance with the act.
(b) accrued but untaken personal/carer’s leave is not paid out on termination.
(c) employees will be allowed a maximum of two days’ paid personal/xxxxx’s leave for sick leave purposes per calendar year without producing a medical certificate, provided the personal/carer’s leave is not a single day taken either side of a public holiday, annual leave, a rostered day off, programmed day off, or a weekend. at all other times, employees will be required to produce medical certificates, even for single day absences, unless this obligation is waived by the relevant manager for any particular absence.
(d) the employee must notify their manager by telephoning and advising of their absence at the first opportunity on the first day of each absence, or if a notified absence is extended.
(e) an employee who is sick while on annual leave who produces a medical certificate or other satisfactory evidence covering the period of illness will be entitled to convert their annual leave to paid personal/carer’s leave as long as the employee has sufficient accrued personal/carer’s leave to do so. The employee will then be re-credited with their annual leave.
(f) the employee must give the company prior notice of:
(i) their intention to take personal leave for xxxxx’s leave purposes;
(ii) the name of the person requiring care and their relationship to the employee;
(iii) the reasons for taking xxxxx’s leave; and
(iv) the estimated length of their absence.
(g) if prior notice is not possible, the employee must notify their manager by telephone of their absence at the first opportunity on each day of absence.
(h) the employee will, if required by the company, provide a medical certificate or if that is not reasonably practicable, a statutory declaration in support of any request for paid personal/sick leave.
PERSONAL/XXXXX’S LEAVE. Employees may take Personal/Xxxxx’s leave:
a) If Employees are not fit for work because of a personal injury or illness; or
b) To provide care or support to a member of their immediate family or household who requires care or support because of:
i. A personal illness or injury affecting the member; or
ii. An unexpected emergency affecting the member;
c) Employees may also take personal/xxxxx’s leave for a maximum of up to one shift to attend the funeral of a close personal friend.
PERSONAL/XXXXX’S LEAVE. The term personal/carer’s leave effectively covers both sick leave and xxxxx’s leave. A full-time employee is entitled to claim up to 10 days paid personal/carer’s leave, for each year of continuous service, for absences due to: • personal illness or injury of the employee • to provide care and support to a member of the employee’s immediate family • to provide care and support to a member of the employee’s immediate family • to provide care and support to a member of the employee’s household, because of the illness or injury of that member or an unexpected emergency affecting that member 23 Part-time employees are entitled to leave under this clause on a pro rata basis based on the number of ordinary hours worked. Casual employees are not entitled to personal/carer’s leave. Personal/xxxxx’s leave accrues on an hourly basis and is paid at the employee’s ordinary rate of pay. Personal/xxxxx’s leave is cumulative but unused leave is not paid out on termination of the employment contract. Personal/xxxxx’s leave is not allowed to be cashed out under the terms of this agreement. Where an employee has insufficient accrued personal/carer’s leave, the employee is entitled to take up to 2 days unpaid carer’s leave on each occasion carer’s leave is required.
PERSONAL/XXXXX’S LEAVE. 20.1 (a) Employees are entitled to personal/carer’s leave in accordance with the provisions of the NES (refer to Chapter 2, Part 2-2, Division 7 of the Act).
PERSONAL/XXXXX’S LEAVE. 22.1 For each year of service with the Company, an employee shall be entitled to 12 shifts of paid personal/carer’s leave without loss of pay.
22.2 An employee's entitlement to paid personal/carer's leave shall accrue progressively during a year of service according to the employee's ordinary hours of work and shall accumulate from year to year.
22.3 An employee may take paid personal leave if the leave is taken because the employee is not fit for work because of personal illness or injury.
22.4 An employee may take paid xxxxx’s leave if the leave is taken to provide care or support to a member of the employee's immediate family, or a member of the employee's household, who requires care or support because of a personal illness or injury or an unexpected emergency.
22.5 For the purposes of clause 22.4 above ‘immediate family’ means a spouse, de facto partner, child, parent, grandparent, grandchild or sibling of the employee, or a child, parent, grandparent, grandchild or sibling of a spouse or de facto partner of the employee.
22.6 In accordance with the NES, employees may access periods of unpaid leave of at least two (2) days, or a greater period by agreement with the Company, that meets the requirements of clause 22.4 above. However, an employee cannot take unpaid carer's leave if the employee could instead take paid personal/carer's leave.
22.7 An employee on personal/xxxxx’s leave who is absent for only part of a shift, shall have a proportionate amount deducted from their personal/carer’s leave accrual in accordance with the following formula: Period of Absence Deduction from Leave
i. Up to ¼ of a shift Nil
ii. Between ¼ and ¾ of a shift ½ shift iii. ¾ or more of a shift Total duration of absence (up to 1 shift)
22.8 If the period during which an employee on the early/late roster takes paid personal/xxxxx's leave includes a day or part-day that is a public holiday the employee shall be taken not to be on paid personal/carer's leave on that public holiday.
