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 : Leave24. Family Responsibility Leave |
| 24.1 | This clause applies to an employee— |
| (a) | who has been in employment with an employer for longer than four months; and |
| (b) | who works fur at least four days a week for the employer |
| 24.2 | An employer must grant an employee, during each annual leave cycle, at the request of the employee, 5 days paid leave to take— |
| (a) | when the employee's child is born |
| (b) | when the employee's child is sick; or |
| (c) | in the event of death of— |
| (i) | the employee's spouse or life partner; or |
| (ii) | the employee's parents, adoptive parents, grandparents, child, adopted child, grand child or sibling. |
| 24.3 | An employer must pay an employee for one day's family responsibility leave— |
| (a) | the wage the employee would ordinarily have received for work on that that day ; and |
| (b) | on the employee's usual pay day. |
| 24.4 | An employee may take family responsibility leave in respect of the whole or part of a day. |
| 24.5 | Before paying an employee for leave in terms of this section, an employer may require reasonable proof of an event contemplated in sub-clause 24.2 for which the leave was required. |
| 24.5 | An employee's unused entitlement to leave in terms of this section lapses at the end of the annual leave cycle in which it accrues. |