AN120673 – Charitable Institutions (Professional Staff Social Workers)(State) Award
15.1 Employees shall be entitled to sick leave on full pay, calculated by allowing 76 ordinary working hours for each year of continuous service, less any sick leave on full pay already taken, subject to the following conditions:
(a) An employee in the first year of employment shall accumulate 7.6 hours for each month of employment for the first ten months.
(b) The agency may require the sickness to be certified by a legally qualified medical practitioner approved by the agency, provided that such approval shall not be unreasonably withheld, or may require other satisfactory evidence thereof.
(c) An employee shall not be entitled to sick leave until after three months' continuous service.
(d) Continuous service for the purpose of this clause shall be calculated in the same manner as provided for in the Long Service Leave Act 1955.
(e) An employee shall not be entitled to sick leave on full pay for any period in respect of which such employee is entitled to workers' compensation; provided, however, that an agency shall pay to an employee who has sick leave entitlements under this clause the difference between the amount received as workers' compensation and full pay. When an agency pays such difference the employee's sick leave entitlements under this clause shall, for each week during which such difference is paid, be reduced by that proportion of one week which the difference paid bears to full pay.
15.2 A part-time employee shall be entitled to sick leave in the same proportion of 76 hours as the ordinary weekly hours worked bear to 38 ordinary hours. Such entitlements shall be subject to all of the above provisions applying to full-time employees.
