SICK LEAVE/CARERS LEAVE. The sick leave system will operate as follows: -
(i) Council will provide unlimited paid sick leave of up to 104 weeks in total on the proviso that : • The safety net is not available for Carers Leave • The employee agrees to participate in Council’s rehabilitation program to assist them to an early return to work • The employee acknowledges that the provision of up to 104 weeks of sick leave would only occur in an extreme case and that the safety net is an interim payment made until the employee is fit to return to work under the provisions of the abovementioned rehabilitation program • If the period of sick leave is to be six working days or more (inclusive of RDO and public holidays) (the only time the safety net will apply), then the employee will provide a medical certificate from a registered medical practitioner together with a letter of written application for access to the safety net which is presented to the Garbage Consultative Committee for their determination. • The Garbage Consultative Committee will review, approve or deny all sick leave applications of six working days or more and, if necessary, use the provisions of Clause 19(iii) of the Local Government State Award 2004 in requesting the employee to attend Council’s Doctor for further medical advice prior to approval or denial of the safety net application. • The standard working week for Waste Services staff will be Monday to Friday for the purposes of this clause. • The access to this clause is dependant on one consecutive illness or injury to determine the six day threshold.
(ii) Any period of leave covered by a medical certificate that is 6 working days or more duration shall be paid as sick leave in accordance with the commitment under (i) above. 5 days sick leave (42 hours 15 minutes) without a medical certificate will be allowed each 12 months either as ½ days, single days, or multiple day absences. For any of the five days untaken in the 12 month period, employees will be given the choice of either:
a) Preserving the entitlement and carrying it into the next year to be used in addition to the 5 days available in that year; or
b) Payment as a good attendance bonus equivalent to the balance of the threshold 5 days sick leave not taken as at the end of the sick leave year. If the employee wishes to preserve the benefits from one year to another and then request payment for those periods in the next year, they may do so. When any more than the 5 days (or other accumulated days) above ...
SICK LEAVE/CARERS LEAVE. The Employee is entitled to the following aggregate amount of paid leave:– In the 1st year of employment 3 days (at 7.6 hours per day) upon commencement of employment, plus one additional day per month worked, in the first year. Thereafter annually, at the commencement of each year, 15 days (at 7.6 hours per day) of sick leave in the second and subsequent years of service. The Employee is entitled to use accumulated sick leave for personal sickness if the Employee has already used the current year’s sick leave component of the Personal sick leave. Sick leave entitlements, which are untaken at the completion of the year, shall accumulate on the following scale: - 15 days in the first year in accord with the above provisions - 15 days in the second and subsequent years of service less leave taken and approved for payment. Where the Employee is absent due to personal illness or injury, notification shall be made to the organisation of such absence as soon as possible, and where practicable within the first part of what would have been the normal working day; stating the nature of the illness or injury and the estimated duration of such absence. If it is not reasonably practicable to inform the relevant supervisor / manager during the ordinary hours of the first part of such absence the Employee shall inform the organisation within 24 hours of the commencement of such absence. For sick leave exceeding five working days annually, a satisfactory certificate by a duly qualified medical practitioner shall be required, stating the nature of the illness or injury or, at the discretion of the medical practitioner, the case of the absence and the probable duration. Provided that the organisation may require a medical certificate to be furnished with respect to any absence. Provided further that any absence, either the working day before or the working day after a rostered day off, holiday or public holiday, the Employee shall be required to provide a certificate from a duly qualified medical practitioner. A public holiday observed during any period of sick leave of the Employee shall not be regarded as part of the sick leave. Entitlement for sick leave due to the Employee at the date of the making of this agreement shall remain unchanged and all leave entitlements due to an Employee at that date shall be converted to full days. On the production of satisfactory medical evidence by a duly qualified medical practitioner in respect of a period or periods of personal and ...
SICK LEAVE/CARERS LEAVE. All Staff All staff unless covered elsewhere in this Agreement are entitled to the equivalent of 15 days sick leave/carers leave per service year at their appropriate base ordinary hours. The leave service year for the purpose of this clause shall be the 1st October to 30th September. The following conditions relate to the provision of medical certificates:
(a) A Medical Certificate (proof of illness) is not required for absence due to illness or carers leave for a total of six (6) days per annum except where the absence is greater than two (2) days.
(b) Where an employee is absent for greater than 2 days, a Medical Certificate (proof of illness) must be produced to cover ongoing absence.
(c) For all other periods of absence due to illness or carers leave, a Medical Certificate (proof of illness) is required.
(d) If, when required, a Medical Certificate is not produced, the period of absence will be sick leave without pay.
(e) An Unauthorised Absence is when a sick leave application form and/ or a medical certificate (when required) is not provided. For each of these occasions, the absence is Sick Leave Without Pay.
(f) Where an employee has exhausted their sick leave entitlement, but has the required form and/ or medical certificate it is treated as Sick Leave Without Pay. For each of the instances in the above a) to f) paragraphs, an employee may seek approval from their Manager for the granting of Personal Leave, Annual Leave or Long Service Leave (in that order), subject to the Manager’s discretion and having regard to the overall sick leave record of the employee. "Carer’s leave" is for the purpose of caring for a sick member of the employee’s immediate family. When employees are required to provide a medical certificate for Carers Leave it must indicate that their absence was required to care and support a family member who is ill.
SICK LEAVE/CARERS LEAVE. 34.1 You are entitled to 10 days per year for sick leave or carer’s leave to care for ill members of your family or immediate household.
34.2 If you have worked less than a year, you will be entitled to 1/26 of the ordinary hours (up to 38 per week) you have worked for each 4 weeks worked.
34.3 The employee will be paid an entitlement, subject to the employee providing a doctor’s certificate or other evidence of illness satisfactory to the employer for any Personal Leave. This may waived by the Employer for less than 1 day.
34.4 The certificate should indicate the nature of the illness and the period expected to be required as Personal leave.
34.5 However, a certificate may be required for any absence immediately preceding or following a weekend or Statutory Holiday.
34.6 The continuity of employment of an employee with an employer for sick leave accumulation purposes shall be deemed to be not broken by any of the following:
(i) Absence from work on leave granted by the employer;
(ii) The employee having ceased employment or being stood down by the employer, or the employee having him/herself terminated employment with the employer, for any period not exceeding 3 months: Provided that employee shall have been re-employed by that employer. The period during which the employment of the employee with the employer shall have been interrupted or determined in any of the circumstances mentioned above shall not be taken into account in calculating the period of employment of the employee with the employer.
SICK LEAVE/CARERS LEAVE. (personal leave)
13.1 Full time, part time or seasonal employees are entitled to leave without loss of pay where they are not able to attend for duty due to:
13.1.1 Personal illness; or
13.1.2 Personal non-compensable injury; or
13.1.3 Illness or injury to another member of their immediate family or household, for whom they are the primary carer.
13.2 Personal leave for full-time and seasonal employees will accrue at the relevant rate outlined in the roster arrangements in clause 22.0. Part time employees are entitled to the pro-rata equivalent.
13.3 Sick Leave shall accrue on a fortnightly basis. Unused sick leave accumulates to the following year. In the case of seasonal employment where an employee has unused sick leave at the end of the season, and that employee is engaged in the next season, the employer will grant to that employee the unused portion of the sick leave entitlement from the previous season.
13.4 The relevant Manager or Team may require proof of illness or injury.
13.4.1 If scheduled sick leave (eg hospitalisation) is required employees must ensure that an application is made for such leave (with a relevant medical certificate) and that reasonable notice is given to the Team Leader and/or Manager of their impending absence.
13.4.2 Permanent Employees or seasonal employees (in their second consecutive season) claiming sick leave for more than 2 single days or after two consecutive days per annum are required to provide evidence to the satisfaction of the company of their inability to attend work on the days for which sick leave was claimed. All other employees including seasonal employees in their first season are required to provide evidence for all days taken.
13.4.3 Employees who are unable to attend for duty must notify their Manager or Team Leader of: ▪ Their inability to attend for duty, and ▪ The reason for the absence, and ▪ The expected duration of absence.
13.5 The employee must notify their Team Leader or Manager of the above as early as practicable and in any event prior to the commencement of their next rostered day.
13.6 Carers leave is to a maximum of 10 days per annum
13.7 In the event that emergency family leave is requested evidence relating to the nature of the leave is to be provided to the satisfaction of the company.
13.8 Notwithstanding the provision set out above, an employee shall provide such evidence as the company may require to satisfy the company as to the reasons for any absence or paid or unpaid sick leave ...
SICK LEAVE/CARERS LEAVE. (1) Every employee shall become entitled to no less than seventy (70) hours sick leave on full pay for each completed year of employment with the company. Sick/Xxxxx’s Leave shall accrue at 1/26th of normal hours worked.
(2) Every employee absent from work through illness on the production of a certificate from a duly qualified medical practitioner specifying the nature of the illness of the employee and the period or approximate period during which the employee will be unable to work or of other evidence of illness to the satisfaction of the Company, and subject to the employee having promptly notified the Company of the illness and of the approximate period aforesaid, shall subject as herein provided be entitled to payment in full for all time so absent from work:
a) Provided the Employee has sufficient Sick Leave in credit;
b) Provided that it shall not be necessary for an employee to produce such a certificate if the absence from work on account of illness does not exceed two consecutive days, unless the day/s absent from work immediately precede or follow a rostered day off from work;
c) Provided that the Company may not require a certificate where only one such absence not exceeding two consecutive days occurs in any twelve month period.
