Labour Relations Act, 1995 (Act No. 66 of 1995)NoticesBargaining Council for the Civil Engineering IndustryBCCEI : Renewal of Period of Operation of the Conditions of Employment Collective AgreementChapter 3 : Regulation of Leave3.4. Family responsibility leave |
| 3.4.1. | 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. |
| 3.4.2. | Subject to sub-clause 3.4.1 an employee is entitled to 12 (twelve) days paid family responsibility leave in the employee's Family Responsibility Leave Cycle. However, an employee may not take more than 4 (four) days family responsibility leave in the first 12 (twelve) months of employment. An employee is entitled to take family responsibility leave at the request of the employee— |
| (a) | When the employee's child or spouse is sick; or |
| (b) | 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. |
| 3.4.3 | Subject to sub-clause 3.4.5, 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 payday. |
| 3.4.4 | An employee may take family responsibility leave in respect of the whole or part of a day. |
| 3.4.5 | Before paying an employee for leave in terms of this clause, an employer may require reasonable proof of an event contemplated in sub-clause 3.4.2 for which the leave was required. |
| 3.4.6 | An employee's unused entitlement to leave in terms of this clause lapses at the end of the employee's Family Responsibility Leave cycle in which it accrues. |