| (1) | This subclause applies to an employee: |
| (a) | who has been in the employment of an employer for longer than four months, and |
| (b) | who works for at least four days a week for that employer. |
| (c) | During each annual leave cycle, an employer, at the request of an employee,must grant the employee three days' paid leave, which the employee is entitled to take: |
| (i) | when the employee's child, spouse or biological grandparent is sick, or |
| (ii) | in the event of the death of an employee's spouse or life partner; or the employee's parent, adoptive parent, grandparent, child, adopted child, grandchild or sibling |
[Clause 6(6.4)(1)(c)(i) substituted by section 3(3.1) of Notice No. R.4039, GG49618, dated 10 November 2023]
| (2) | Subject to subclause (1), an employer must pay an employee for a day’s family responsibility leave: |
| (a) | the wage the employee would ordinarily have received for work on that day; and |
| (b) | on the employee’s usual pay day. |
| (3) | An employee may take family responsibility leave in respect of the whole or a part of a day. |
| (4) | Before paying an employee for leave in terms of this clause, an employer may require reasonable proof of an event contemplated in subclause (1) for which the leave was required. |
| (5) | An employee’s unused entitlement to leave in terms of this clause will lapse at the end of the annual leave cycle in which it accrues. |
