Labour Relations Act, 1995 (Act No. 66 of 1995)NoticesNational Bargaining Council for the Wood and Paper SectorExtension of Collective Agreement on Conditions of Service : Pulp and Paper Sector to Non-partiesPart C : Leave Provisions9. Annual Leave |
| 1. | An employer shall grant an employee at least twenty-one (21) consecutive day's annual leave on full remuneration in respect of each annual leave cycle. |
| 2. | An employee shall be entitled to leave in respect of each completed year of employment at the following rate: |
| 2.1. | Fifteen (15) working days, paid leave of absence in the case of an employee who works a five-day week. |
| 2.2. | Eighteen (18) working days, paid leave of absence in the case of an employee who works a six-day week. |
| 3. | The leave to which an employee is entitled in terms of clauses 1 and 2 above, shall be granted at a time to be fixed by the employer: Provided that: |
| 3.1. | If such leave has not been granted earlier; it shall be granted within six (6) months of the completion of the year of employment to which it relates; |
| 3.2. | The periods of such leave shall not be concurrent with any period during which an employee is under notice of termination of employment, nor with any period of sick leave. |
| 4. | If a public holiday falls within the period of such leave, another day shall in substitution for each such day be added as a further period of leave on full pay |
| 5. | An employer may set off against the period of annual leave any days of occasional leave with full pay granted to an employee at the employee's request during the year of employment to which the period of annual leave relates. |
| 6. | Leave pay. The remuneration in respect of the annual leave referred to above shall be paid not later than on the last work -day before the date of the commencement of such leave or not later than the employee's usual pay day. |