AN120154 – Concrete Pipe and Concrete Products Factories Consolidated (State) Award
(a) An employee on weekly hiring who is absent from work on account of personal illness or on account of injury by accident shall be entitled to leave of absence, without deduction of pay, subject to the following conditions and limitations:
(i) The employee shall not be entitled to paid leave of absence for any period in respect of which the employee is entitled to workers' compensation.
(ii) The employee, prior to commencement of starting time, shall notify the employer of such absence and, as far as practicable, state the nature of the injury or illness and the estimated duration of such absence.
(iii) The employee shall provide, to the satisfaction of the employer, that the employee was unable on account of such illness of injury to attend for duty on the day or days for which sick leave is claimed.
(iv) The employee shall not be entitled, in the first year of service with any employer, to sick leave in excess of three and one-third hours of working time for each completed month of service.
(v) The employee shall not be entitled, in any subsequent year, to leave in excess of 64 hours of working time.
(b) Notwithstanding anything contained in subclause (a) of this clause, if the full period of sick leave as prescribed above is not taken in any year, such portion as is not taken shall be cumulative from year to year and may be taken in any subsequent year.
(c) Sickness on a Rostered Day Off - Where an employee is sick or injured on the weekday the employee is to take off in accordance with subclause (iii) of clause 3, Implementation of the 38- Hour Week, the employee shall not be entitled to sick pay nor will the employee's sick pay entitlement be reduced as a result of any sickness or injury on that day.
(d) An employee who is absent on the ordinary working day preceding and/or the ordinary working day following a rostered day off shall not be entitled to payment of sick pay for such day or days unless the employee produces to the employer a certificate from a duly qualified medical practitioner. Provided that, if satisfactory evidence of sickness or injury acceptable to the employer is produced, then the necessity of a medical certificate may be waived.
