AN140103 – Electrical Contracting Industry Award - State 2003
7.2.1 Entitlement
(a) (i) Where employees work more than 8 ordinary hours per day they shall be entitled to 64 ordinary hours of sick leave for each completed year of service; and
(ii) In all other cases, an employee shall be entitled to 8 ordinary days of sick leave for each completed year of service with an employer.
(b) In any case, in respect of any completed period of employment of les than one year with an employer, an employee shall become entitled to one ordinary days sick leave for each 6 weeks of such period.
(c) Payment for sick leave will be made based on the number of hours which would have been worked by the employee if the employee were not absent on sick leave.
Leave entitlements that accrued prior to 1st April 1990 shall be maintained in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Engineering Award - State 2002.
(d) Sick leave may be taken for part of a day.
(e) Sick leave shall be cumulative, but unless the employer and employee otherwise agree, no employee shall be entitled to receive, and no employer shall be bound to make, payment for more than 13 weeks' absence from work through illness in any one year.
7.2.2 Employee must give notice
(a) The payment of sick leave is subject to the employee promptly advising the employer of the employee's absence and its expected duration.
(b) An employee employed "on site" shall, other than in exceptional circumstances, notify their employer of their absence or their likely absence from work through illness within 2 hours of their schedules starting time to enable a replacement to be arranged. Employees on Shift Work shall where possible notify their employer during company working hours.
7.2.3 Evidence supporting a claim.
When the employee's absence is for more than 2 days the employee is required to give the employer a doctor's certificate about the nature of the illness and the approximate period during which the employee will be unable to work, or other reasonably acceptable evidence.
7.2.4 Accumulated sick leave
An employee's accumulated sick leave entitlements are preserved when:
(a) The employee is absent from work on unpaid leave granted by the employer;
(b) The employer or employee terminates the employee's employment and the employee is re-employed within 3 months;
(c) The employee's employment is terminated because of illness or injury and the employee is re-employed by the same employer without having been employed in the interim.
The employee accumulates sick leave entitlements whilst absent from work on paid leave granted by the employer.
7.2.5 Workers' compensation
Where an employee is in receipt of workers' compensation, the employee is not entitled to concurrent payment of sick leave.
