Leave and Public Holidays
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Annual leave
Sick leave
During the first six months of employment, paid sick leave is calculated as one day paid sick leave for every 26 days worked. In a 36-month leave cycle, an employee is entitled to 30 days’ paid sick leave (if the employee works five days per week) or 36 days’ paid sick leave (if the employee works six days per week). This leave cycle commences, irrespective of a probation period, on the first day of employment, and paid sick leave taken during the first six months of employment can be deducted from it.
Is it paid or unpaid leave? Firstly, is sick leave due to the employee? If the answer is yes, then you must determine whether a medical certificate is needed. A medical certificate has to be presented if an employee is absent from work on more than one occasion or more than two consecutive days within an eight-week period. A medical certificate is not needed if an employee is absent from work on one occasion for two or less consecutive working days within an eight-week period.
If paid sick leave is not due, there are two options. You can process it as unpaid leave, or you can process it as paid leave and deduct it from the employee’s annual leave.
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Family responsibility leave
Employees who have been employed for more than four months and who work for at least four days a week will be entitled to three days’ family responsibility leave during each 12 months of employment. Family responsibility is granted when the employee’s child is born or is sick, or in the event of the death of the employee’s spouse or life partner, parent, adoptive parent, grandparent, child, adopted child, grandchildren or sibling. An employer may request reasonable proof (a medical or death certificate) before paying an employee for family responsibility leave. This leave cannot be accumulated.
Maternity leave
PARENTAL LEAVE
- on the day that the employee’s biological child is born,
- or in the case where a child is adopted on the day that the adoption order is granted,
- or on the day that the child is placed in the care of the employee as prospective adoptive parent.
ADOPTION LEAVE
COMMISSIONING PARENTAL LEAVE
PUBLIC HOLIDAYS
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