Labour Relations Act, 1995 (Act No. 66 of 1995)

Notices

National Bargaining Council for the Wood and Paper Sector

Extension of Collective Agreement on Conditions of Service : Pulp and Paper Sector to Non-parties

Part C : Leave Provisions

14. Family Responsibility Leave
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1. Family responsibility leave applies to an employee who has been in employment with an employer for longer than four (4) months.

 

2. An employer shall grant an employee during each annual leave cycle at the request of an employee, a total of five (5) days paid leave, which an employee is entitled to take, either when:
2.1. The employee's child is born;
2.2. The employee's child is sick;
2.3. The employee's spouse or life partner is sick;
2.4. In the event of death of:
2.4.1. The employee's spouse or life partner; or
2.4.2. The employee's parent, adoptive parent, grandparent, child, adopted child, grandchild, sibling, mother and father in law.

 

3. An employee shall provide satisfactory proof of each occurrence in the form of a death, medical or birth certificate to his employer.

 

4. An employee's unused entitlement to Family Responsibility Leave lapses annually and may not be accrued.