| (1) | This clause applies to an employee:— |
| (a) | who has been in employment with an employer for longer than four (4) months; and |
| (b) | who Is contracted to work for that employer for at least four (4) days a Leek. |
| (2) | An employer shelf grant an employee, during each annual leave cycle, at the request of the employee, three (3) days paid leave, and two days unpaid leave, which the employee is entitled to take:— |
| (a) | when the employee's child is born; |
| (b) | when the employee's child is sick; or |
| (c) | when the employee takes his/her medically certified disabled child to the doctor, no age limit applied to the disabled child; |
| (d) | when the employee takes his/her school going child to the doctor, whereby the child Is not older than 21 years; |
| (e) | when the employee whom takes his/her parent, adoptive parent or parent in law to the doctor; |
| (f) | in the event of the death of:— |
| (i) | the employee's spouse or life partner, or |
| (ii) | the employee's parent, adoptive parent, grandparent, child, adopted child, grandchild or sibling. |
| (3) | Subject to subclause (5), an employer shall 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 in respect of the whole or a part of the day. |
| (5) | Before paying an employee for leave taken in terms of this clause, an employer may require reasonable proof of the event contemplated In subclause (1) for which the family responsibility leave was requested. |
| (6) | An employee's unused entitlement to leave in terms of this clause lapses at the end of the annual leave cycle during which it accrues. |
[Clause 39 substituted by section 4 of Notice No. R. 613, GG42418, dated 26 April 2019]
