AP765516 - Airline Operations (Qantas Airways Limited) Award 1999
29. PERSONAL/CARER'S LEAVE (INCORPORATING SICK LEAVE AND BEREAVEMENT LEAVE)
29.1 Amount of paid personal leave
29.1.1 Paid personal leave is available to an employee when he or she is absent due to:
[29.1.2 substituted by R6246 from 21Apr99]
29.1.2 Personal leave of thirteen days (98.8 hours) is available in the first year of service. Eighteen days (136.8 hours) personal leave is available in each second and subsequent year of service.
29.1.3 In any year, unused personal leave accrues at the rate of either:
29.1.4 Personal leave may accumulate to a maximum of 52 weeks, but is not paid in lieu on termination of employment.
29.2 Immediate family or household
29.2.1 The entitlement to carer's or bereavement leave is subject to the person in respect of whom the leave is taken being either:
29.2.2 The term immediate family includes:
29.2.2(a) spouse (including a former spouse, a de facto spouse and a former de facto spouse) of the employee. A de facto spouse means a person who lives with the employee as his or her husband or wife on a bona fide domestic basis; and
29.2.2(b) child or an adult child (including an adopted child, a step child or an ex-nuptial child), parent, grandparent, grandchild or sibling of the employee or spouse of the employee.
29.3 Sick leave
29.3.1 Sick leave is leave to which an employee other than a casual is entitled without loss of pay because of his or her personal illness or injury.
[29.3.2 substituted by R6246 from 21Apr99]
29.3.2 An employee is entitled to use up to ten days (76 hours) of the current year's personal leave entitlement as sick leave in the first twelve months of service and fifteen days (114 hours) in any second and subsequent years of service.
29.3.3 An employee is entitled to use accumulated personal leave for the purposes of sick leave if the employee's current year's sick leave entitlement has been exhausted.
29.3.4 Leave with pay will be granted to an employee if the employee is absent from work due to illness or injury, subject to this clause.
29.3.5 Notice of illness or injury
29.3.5(a) As soon as is reasonably practicable and within eight hours of the commencement of absence due to illness or accident, an employee shall inform the supervisor of an inability to attend for duty and as far as practicable, state the nature of the illness or injury and the estimated duration of the absence.
29.3.5(b) If it is not reasonably practicable to inform the employer within eight hours of such absence the employees shall inform the company within 24 hours of such absence.
29.3.6 Proof of illness or injury
The employee must if required by the Company establish by production of a medical certificate or statutory declaration that the employee was unable to attend for work because of personal illness or injury.
29.3.7 Effect of workers' compensation
If an employee is receiving workers' compensation payments he or she is not entitled to sick leave.
29.3.8 Sick leave and public holidays
Leave under this clause is exclusive of public holidays.
29.3.9 Maximum period of sick leave
Employees may take up to 52 continuous weeks of paid sick leave. If an employee has exhausted all leave allowable with pay, the employee may be granted additional leave without pay, up to a combined maximum of 78 weeks paid and unpaid leave.
29.3.10 Sick leave allowable under this clause and not availed of by an employee, including all sick leave credits due at the commencement of these provisions, will accumulate, provided that such sick leave credit must not be paid on termination of employment.
29.3.11 Sick leave and annual leave
[29.3.11 inserted by R6246 from 21Apr99]
If an employee is sick while on annual leave and provides the employer with a medical certificate on return to work from annual leave, the employee must be granted additional leave for a period equivalent to the period of sickness. The additional period of leave granted must be recorded as sick leave.
29.4 Bereavement leave
29.4.1 An employee, other than a casual employee, is entitled to use up to three days personal leave as bereavement leave on each occasion of the death of a member of the employee's immediate family or household.
29.4.2 Employees must produce satisfactory evidence of the death to the Company.
29.4.3. When an employee has exhausted all personal leave entitlements including accumulated entitlements, he or she is entitled to up to three days unpaid bereavement leave.
29.5 Carer's leave
29.5.1 An employee is entitled to use up to five days personal leave each year as carer's leave. This entitlement is subject to:
29.5.1(a) the employee being responsible for the care and support of the person concerned; and
29.5.1(b) the person concerned being either:
In normal circumstances an employee must not take carer's leave under this clause if another person has taken leave to care for the same person. Carer's leave may be taken for part of a single day.
29.5.2 Evidence supporting claim
The employee must, if required by the Company, establish by production of a medical certificate or statutory declaration, the illness of the person concerned and that the illness is such as to require care by another.
29.5.3 Notice requirements
29.5.3(a) The employee must give at least two hours notice before his or her next rostered starting time unless he or she has a good reason for not doing so.
29.5.3(b) The notice must include:
29.5.3(c) If it is not practicable for the employee to give prior notice of the absence, the employee must notify the Company by telephone at the first opportunity.
29.5.4 Unpaid carer's leave
An employee may take unpaid carer’s leave with the agreement of the Company.
