Labour Relations Act, 1995 (Act No. 66 of 1995)NoticesBargaining Council for the Furniture Manufacturing IndustryWestern CapeExtension to Non-parties of the Main Collective AgreementPart lB - Terms and conditions of employmentClause 30 - Family responsibility leave |
| (1) | This clause applies to an Employee:— |
| (a) | who has been in employment with an Employer for longer than four months; and |
| (b) | who works for at least four days a week for that Employer. |
| (2) | An Employer must grant an Employee, during each annual leave cycle, at the request of the Employee, a total of 3 days paid leave and 2 days unpaid leave per annum, which the Employee is entitled to take:— |
| (a) | when the Employee's child is sick; or |
| (b) | when the Employee's spouse or life partner is sick; or |
| (c) | in the event of the death of:— |
| (i) | the Employee's spouse or life partner; or |
| (ii) | the Employee's parent, adoptive parent, grandparent, parent in -law, child, adoptive child, grandchild or sibling. |
| (3) | Subject to sub -clause (5), 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. |
| (4) | An Employee may take family responsibility leave whole or a part of a day. in respect of the whole or a part of a day. |
| (5) | Before paying an Employee for leave in terms of this section, an Employer may require reasonable proof of an event contemplated in sub -clause (2), (7) and (8) for which the leave was required. |
| (6) | An Employee's unused entitlement to leave in terms of this section lapses at the end of the annual leave cycle in which it accrues. |
| (7) | Should a medically certified disabled major or minor child, of an employee, be required to seek medical attention from a health practitioner this will be covered under family responsibility leave. |
| (8) | Should an employee accompany their parent to a health practitioner, this would be regarded as unpaid leave. |