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

33. Family Responsibility Leave

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(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 shall grant an employee, during each annual leave cycle, at the request of the employee, three days paid leave, which the employee is entitled to take—
(a) when the employees' child is sick; or
(b) in the event of the death of—
(i)the employees' spouse or life partner; or
(ii) the employees' parent, adoptive parent or grand parent; or
(iii) the employees' child, adoptive child, grand child or sibling.
(iv) when the employees' spouse is sick, provided that a medical practitioner confirms that the spouses' illness necessitated accompaniment.

[Part 1 Clause 33(2) substituted by section 7 of Notice No. 601, GG45328 dated 15 October 2021]

 

(3) The employer shall pay the employee for the day, or part of a day off in terms of this Clause at the wage that the employee ordinarily would have received for that day.

 

(4) Before paying an employee for leave taken in terms of this Clause, an employer may require reasonable proof of an event for which leave was required in terms of this Clause.

 

(5) An employees' unused entitlement to leave in terms of this Clause lapses at the end of the annual cycle in which it accrues.