AN120221 – Funeral Industries (State) Award 2005
(i) All employees other than casuals, with not less than 2 months' continuous service in the industry covered by this award who are absent from their work by reasons of personal illness or injury, not being from an injury arising out of or in the course of employment, shall be entitled to leave of absence without deduction of pay subject to the following conditions and limitations:
(a) the employee shall, within 24 hours of the commencement of such absence, inform the employer of his/her inability to attend for duty and, as far as practicable, state the nature of his illness or injury and the estimated duration of the absence;
(b) the employee shall furnish to the employer such evidence as the employer may desire that he/she was unable, by reasons of such illness or injury, to attend for duty on the day or days for which sick leave was claimed;
(c) the employee shall not be entitled in any year, whether in the employ of one employer or several in the aforesaid industry in such year, to leave in excess of 38 hours of ordinary time (to accrue on the basis of 3.16 hours per month) for his/her first year of service, or to leave in excess of 76 hours of ordinary time (to accrue on the basis of 6.34 hours per month) for the second and subsequent years of continuous employment.
(ii) Where an employee is absent from employment on the working day or part of the working day immediately preceding or immediately following:
(a) a Holiday as defined by Clause 17 of this Award; or
(b) before or after a period of annual leave during which a holiday or holidays occur as defined without reasonable excuse, the employer's consent, or such other evidence as the employer may require, the employee shall not be entitled to payment for such holiday or holidays.
(iii) If the full period of sick leave is not taken in any year, the whole or any untaken portion shall be cumulative from year to year provided that an employer shall not be bound to credit an employee for sick leave which accrued more than twelve years before the end of the last completed year of service.
