AN160066 – Clerks (Commercial, Social and Professional Services) Award No. 14 of 1972
(1) (a) A worker who is unable to attend or remain at his place of employment during the ordinary hours of work by reason of personal ill health or injury shall be entitled to payment during such absence in accordance with the following provisions.
(b) Entitlement to payment shall accrue at the rate of one sixth of a week for each completed month of service with the employer.
(c) If in the first or successive years of service with the employer a worker is absent on the ground of personal ill health or injury for a period longer than his entitlement to paid sick leave, payment may be adjusted at the end of that year of service, or at the time the worker's services terminate, if before the end of that year of service, to the extent that the worker has become entitled to further paid sick leave during that year of service.
(2) The unused portions of the entitlement to paid sick leave in any one year shall accumulate from year to year and subject to this clause may be claimed by the worker if the absence by reason of personal ill health or injury exceeds the period for which entitlement has accrued during the year at the time of the absence. Provided that a worker shall not be entitled to claim payment for any period exceeding ten weeks in any one year of service.
(3) To be entitled to payment in accordance with this clause the worker shall as soon as reasonably practicable advise the employer of his inability to attend for work, the nature of his illness or injury and the estimated duration of the absence. Provided that such advice, other than in extraordinary circumstances shall be given to the employer within 24 hours of the commencement of the absence.
(4) The provisions of this clause do not apply to a worker who fails to produce a certificate from a medical practitioner dated at the time of the absence or who fails to supply such other proof of the illness or injury as the employer may reasonably require provided that the worker shall not be required to produce a certificate from a medical practitioner with respect to absences of two days or less unless after two such absences in any year of service the employer requests in writing that the next and subsequent absences in that year if any, shall be accompanied by such certificate.
(5) (a) Subject to the provisions of this subclause, the provisions of this clause apply to a worker who suffers personal ill health or injury during the time when he is absent on annual leave and a worker may apply for and the employer shall grant paid sick leave in place of paid annual leave.
(b) Application for replacement shall be made within seven days of resuming work and then only if the worker was confined to his place of residence or a hospital as a result of his personal ill health or injury for a period of seven consecutive days or more and he produces a certificate from a registered medical practitioner that he was so confined. Provided that the provisions of this paragraph do not relieve the worker of the obligation to advise the employer in accordance with subclause (3) of this clause if he is unable to attend for work on the working day next following his annual leave.
(c) Replacement of paid annual leave by paid sick leave shall not exceed the period of paid sick leave to which the worker was entitled at the time he proceeded on annual leave and shall not be made with respect to fractions of a day.
(d) Where paid sick leave has been granted by the employer in accordance with paragraph (a), (b) and (c) of this subclause, that portion of the annual leave equivalent to the paid sick leave is hereby replaced by the paid sick leave and the replaced annual leave may be taken at another time mutually agreed to by the employer and the worker or, failing agreement, shall be added to the worker's next period of annual leave or, if termination occurs before then, be paid for in accordance with the provisions of Clause 12. - Annual Leave.
(e) Payment for replaced annual leave shall be at the rate of wage applicable at the time the leave is subsequently taken provided that the annual leave loading prescribed in Clause 12. - Annual Leave shall be deemed to have been paid with respect to the replaced annual leave.
(6) Where a business has been transmitted from one employer to another and the worker's service has been deemed continuous in accordance with subclause (3) of Clause 2 of the Long Service Leave provisions published in volume 59 of the Western Australian Industrial Gazette at pages 1-6, the paid sick leave standing to the credit of the worker at the date of transmission from service with the transmittor shall stand to the credit of the worker at the commencement of service with the transmittee and may be claimed in accordance with the provisions of this clause.
(7) The provisions of this clause with respect to payment do not apply to workers who are entitled to payment under the Workers' Compensation Act nor to workers whose injury or illness is the result of the worker's own misconduct.
(8) The provisions of this clause do not apply to casual workers.
