Labour Relations Act, 1995 (Act No. 66 of 1995)NoticesBargaining Council for the Hairdressing Trade (Cape Penninsula)Main Collective Agreement16. Family Responsibility Leave |
| 1. | An employer must grant an employee during each annual leave cycle, at the employee"s request, five days" paid family responsibility 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) | in the event of the death of the employee"s spouse or life partner, parent, adopted parent, grandparent, child, adopted child, grandchild or sibling. |
| 2. | Family responsibility leave applies only to an employee who has been in employment for longer than four months and who works for at least four days a week. |
| 3. | An employee may take family responsibility leave in respect of the whole or part of a day. |
| 4. | An employer must pay an employee the employee"s basic daily wage for each day that the employee is entitled to paid family responsibility leave, on the employee"s usual payday. |
| 5. | Before paying an employee for family responsibility leave, an employer may require reasonable proof of an event for which the leave was required. |