AN150011 – AWU/CFMEU Construction and Maintenance Award (South Australia) 1989

CLAUSE 30. BEREAVEMENT LEAVE
OPDATE 15:03:91 1st pp on or after

An employee shall on the death within Australia of a wife, husband, mother, father, parents-in-law, brother, sister, child or stepchild, be entitled on notice to leave up to and including the day of the funeral of such relation (or where made necessary because of travel arrangements, the day after the funeral), and such leave shall be without deduction of pay for a period not exceeding the number of hours worked by the employee in two ordinary days of work. Proof of such death shall be furnished by the employee to the satisfaction of the employer.

Provided that this clause shall have no operation while the period of entitlement to leave under it coincides with any other period of entitlement to leave.

For the purpose of this clause the words "wife" and "husband" shall include a person who lives with the employee as a de facto wife or husband.

Provided further that, with the consent of the employer, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld, an employee shall, in addition to this entitlement to paid bereavement leave, be entitled to reasonable unpaid bereavement leave up to ten working days in respect of the death of a relation to whom the clause applies, and that any dispute as to the granting of unpaid bereavement leave may be referred to the Commission.