Labour Relations Act, 1995 (Act No. 66 of 1995)

Notices

Bargaining Council for the Furniture Manufacturing Industry

KwaZulu Natal

Extension to Non-Parties of the Main Collective Agreement

Part 1

30. Sick Leave

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(1) An employer shall grant an employee who is absent from work through incapacity, the following sick leave;
(a) 10 working days' paid sick leave during any period of 12 consecutive months of employment : Provided that:—
(b) during the first 12 months of employment, an employee shall be entitled to 1 (one) day paid sick leave for every 26 days worked.

 

(2) An employer may require the employee to produce a certificate signed by a registered medical practitioner stating the following:
(a) the nature of the illness; and
(b) the duration of the employees incapacity.

 

(3) In the event that an employee has, during any period of eight weeks received sick pay in terms of this Clause on two or more occasions without producing a medical certificate, his employer may during a period of eight weeks immediately succeeding the last payment, require him to produce a medical certificate in respect of absence from work.

 

(4) If an employee is absent from work one day before and / or one day after a paid public holiday without producing a valid medical certificate signed by a medical practitioner, the employee shall not be entitled to payment of either the day before or after the paid public holiday, or both.

 

(5) The same rule as in sub-clause (4) above shall apply read with the changes to the context, if an employee is absent without a valid medical certificate on either a Friday and / or a Monday.