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

Notices

Bargaining Council for the Meat Trade, Gauteng

Main Collective Agreement to Non-Parties

14. Family Responsibility Leave

 

(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 for at least four days per week for that employer.

 

(2) An employer shall grant an employee, during each annual leave cycle, at the request of the employee, three days' paid 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
(i) the employee's spouse or life partner; or
(ii) the employee's parents, adoptive parent, grandparent, child, adopted child, grandchild or sibling.

 

(3) Subject to clause (5), an employer shall pay an employee for a day's responsibility leave—
(a) the wage the employee would ordinarily have received for work on that day; and
(b) on the employee's usual payday.

 

(4) An employee may take family responsibility leave in respect of the whole or part of a day.

 

(5) Before paying an employee for leave in terms of this clause, an employer may require reasonable proof of an event contemplated in subclause (2) for which the leave was required.

 

(6) 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.

 

(7) A collective agreement may vary the number of days and the circumstances under which leave is to be granted in terms of this section.