Labour Relations Act, 1995 (Act No. 66 of 1995)NoticesBargaining Council for the Laundry Cleaning and Dyeing IndustryKwa Zulu NatalExtension to Non-Parties of the Main Collective AgreementPart D : Leave21. Sick Leave |
| 21.1 | In this Agreement, "sick leave cycle" means the period of 36 months employment with the same employer immediately following— |
| (a) | an employee's commencement of employment; or |
| (b) | the completion of that employee's prior sick leave cycle. |
| 21.2 | During every sick leave cycle, an employee is entitled to an amount of paid sick leave equal to the number of days the employee would normally work during a period of six weeks. |
| 21.3 | Despite subsection 21.2, during the first six months of employment, an employee is entitled to one day's paid sick leave for every 26 days worked. |
| 21.4 | During an employee's first sick leave cycle, an employer may reduce the employee's entitlement to sick leave in terms of sub-clause 21.2 by the number of days' sick leave taken in terms of sub-clause 21.3 |
| 21.5 | Subject to clause 22, an employer must pay an employee for a day's sick leave— |
| (a) | the wage the employee would ordinarily have received for work on that day; and |
| (b) | on the employee's usual pay day. |
| 21.6 | An agreement may reduce the pay to which an employee is entitled in respect of any day's absence in terms of this section if— |
| (a) | the number of days of paid sick leave is increased at least commensurately with any reduction in the daily amount of sick pay; and |
| (b) | the employee's entitlement to pay— |
| (i) | for any day's sick leave is at least 75 per cent of the wage payable to the employee for the ordinary hours the employee would have worked on that day; and |
| (ii) | for sick leave over the sick leave cycle is at least equivalent to the employee's entitlement in terms of sub-clause 21.2. |