Airservices Australia Award 2000
AP767005 - Airservices Australia Award 2000
33.1 Amount of paid personal leave
33.1.1 Paid personal leave will be available to an employee when they are absent due to
33.1.2 Personal leave of:
will be available in the first year of service and per annum in the second and subsequent years of service.
33.1.3 In any year, unused personal leave accrues at the rate of the lesser of:
33.1.3(a) the annual sick leave entitlement in 33.1.2 less the amount of sick leave taken from the current year’s personal leave entitlement.
33.1.3(b) the balance of that year’s unused personal leave.
33.1.4 Subject to clause 33.1.3, personal leave may accumulate without limit during an employee’s period of continuous employment.
33.2 Immediate family or household
33.2.1 The entitlement to use personal leave for the purposes of carer’s or bereavement leave is subject to the person being either:
33.2.1(a) a member of the employee’s immediate family, or
33.2.1(b) a member of the employee’s household.
33.2.2 The term immediate family includes:
33.2.2(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 of the opposite sex to the employee who lives with the employee as his or her husband or wife on a bona fide domestic basis, and
33.2.2(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.
33.3.1 The annual entitlement for sick leave is up to the equivalent of three times the average weekly hours applicable to the employee’s classification.
33.3.2 When an employee is granted paid sick leave, the hours for which the employee was rostered to work will be deducted from the annual entitlement.
33.3.3 For a non-shift worker, three times average weekly hours for the employee’s classification divided by fifteen will be deducted for each work day during which the employee is absent on approved leave.
33.3.4 An employee is entitled to use accumulated personal leave for the purposes of sick leave where the current year’s sick leave entitlement has been exhausted.
33.3.5 The maximum period of paid sick leave will not exceed 52 weeks in any one sick leave occurrence. The maxium period of paid and unpaid sick leave will not exceed 78 weeks in any one sick leave occurrence.
33.3.6 The grant of sick leave with pay will be subject to the following conditions:
33.3.6(a) the employee will apply in writing, stating the cause of absence,
35.3.6(b) the grant of sick leave with pay will be subject to the application being supported by the certificate of a duly qualified medical practitioner,
33.3.6(c) the employee may be granted sick leave with pay subject to available credits, without production of a medical certificate for a total period of five days or the equivalent number of hours of duty in any sick leave year, provided that any single period of leave granted under this subclause does not exceed three consecutive days or equivalent hours of duty.
33.3.7 Returned soldiers care
In addition to the entitlement in 33.3.1, employees who are returned soldiers and who are suffering a disability as a result of war, or pulmonary tuberculosis for which they are receiving benefits under the Repatriation Act 1920, are eligible for 2 weeks paid leave to undergo periodic medical attention, prosthetic treatment or pension review under the Repatriation Act 1920.
33.4.1 An employee is entitled to paid leave covering up to three attendances or rostered attendances on each occasion if a member of the employee’s immediate family or household resident in Australia dies.
33.4.2 Paid bereavement leave will be deducted from the employee’s annual personal leave entitlement up to a maximum of three fifths of the employee’s weekly hours of work in any one year.
33.4.3 Proof of death must be provided to the satisfaction of the employer, if requested.
33.5.1 An employee is entitled to use up to:
35 hours per annum for 35 hours per week employees,
36.75 hours per annum for 36.75 hours per week employees,
38 hours per annum for 38 hours per week employees,
as carer’s leave.
33.5.2 Paid carer’s leave will be deducted from the employee’s annual personal leave entitlement.
33.5.3 The entitlement to use carer’s leave is subject to the employee being responsible for the care of the person concerned.
33.5.4 The employee must, if required by the employer, 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.
33.5.5 In normal circumstances an employee must not take carer’s leave under this clause where another person has taken leave to care for the same person.
33.5.6 The employee must, where practicable, give the employer notice prior to the absence of the intention to take leave, the name of the person requiring care and their relationship to the employee, the reasons for taking such leave and the estimated length of absence. If it is not practicable for the employee to give prior notice of absence, the employee must notify the employer by telephone of such absence at the first opportunity on the day of absence.
