Australia Post General Conditions of Employment Award 1999
AP766597 - Australia Post General Conditions of Employment Award 1999
[27 substituted by PR969602; PR969602 cancelled and replaced by PR970166 ppc 15Feb06]
The provisions of this clause apply to permanent and fixed term full-time and part-time employees (on a pro rata basis) but do not apply to casual employees. The entitlements of casual employees are set out in clause 14.
An employee is entitled to take up to three days bereavement leave on each occasion and on production of satisfactory evidence of the death of either a member of the employee’s immediate family or household.
An employee may take unpaid bereavement leave by agreement with Australia Post.
27.3 Immediate family or household
27.3.1 Conditions of bereavement leave
The entitlement to use bereavement leave is subject to the person being either:
27.3.1(a) a member of the employee’s immediate family; or
27.3.1(b) a member of the employee’s household
27.3.2 Immediate family
The term immediate family includes:
27.3.2(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 of the opposite sex to the employee who lives with the employee as the husband or wife of that employee on a bona fide domestic basis; and
27.3.2(b) child or an adult child (including an adopted child, a stepchild or an ex nuptial child), parent, grandparent, grandchild or sibling of the employee or of the employee’s spouse.
