AN150029 – Carpenters & Joiners (General) Award 1993
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(a) Every employee engaged by the week who is unable to attend or remain at his place of employment by reason of illness and who complies with the conditions prescribed by subclause (b) hereof shall be granted by his employer paid leave not exceeding the sick leave credit of that employee computed in accordance with this clause.
(b) The said leave shall be granted and the employee shall be entitled to pay in respect thereof on compliance with the following conditions:
(1) within 24 hours after the commencement of the absence the employee shall inform his employer of his inability to attend for duty and, as far as practicable, of the nature of the illness and the estimated duration of the absence; and
(2) If so required by his employer, the employee shall produce to the employer a medical certificate or other reasonable evidence to prove that he was unable to attend for duty on the day or days in respect of which he claims sick leave.
(c) For the purposes of this clause the word `illness' includes personal injury but does not include an injury for which compensation is payable under the Workers Rehabilitation and Compensation Act, 1986 as mended.
(d) For the purpose of subclause (a) of this clause the sick leave credit of an employee with an employer shall be determined by adding to the accumulation of the sick leave, if any, standing to the credit of that employee with that employer (pursuant to this or any other award or industrial agreement relating to the industry of the occupations to which this award relates) immediately before 4 January,1973, the amount of leave that the employee is entitled to be granted by the employer pursuant to this clause, and deducting from the total so obtained the amount of sick leave that has, pursuant to this clause, been so granted by the employer.
(e) In respect of:
(i) the first year of service with an employer that follows 4 January, 1973, a full-time employee shall be entitled to a a grant of leave on full-time pay under this clause by that employer of 17/13 hours per week; and
(ii) The succeeding years of continuous service with that employer such an employee shall, on or after the commencement of each such year, be entitled to a grant under this clause by that employer equal to 10 days on full pay.
