AP797062 - Student Union Employees Core Conditions Award 1997
5.4.1 An employee shall be entitled to sick leave on full pay at the rate of 15 days for each completed year of service from the date of appointment. Such leave shall be credited twelve months in advance provided that, in the first year of employment:
(a) an employee appointed on a permanent basis or a contract basis for a period of twenty-four months or more shall be credited on appointment with 30 days sick leave for the first two years of service; and
(b) an employee appointed on a contract basis for a period less than twenty-four months shall be credited on appointment with the amount of leave that would accrue during the period of the contract.
5.4.2 Sick leave shall accumulate if not taken.
5.4.3 Sick leave credits shall be transferable between Student Unions and shall be transferable from other employers approved for the purpose of determining long service leave entitlements as per clause 5.9 provided that such credits shall only be recognised where any break in service between the cessation of duty with an approved employer and commencement of duty with the Student Union does not exceed twelve months.
5.4.4 Where a public holiday falls during a period when an employee is absent on sick leave and such holiday is observed by the Student Union, no deduction shall be made for that day from the sick leave credits of the employee.
5.4.5 All sick leave credits and debits shall be expressed in terms of full hours.
5.4.6 For any day of sick leave which forms part of period in excess of three days during which the employee is absent from work (including weekends and public holidays) or any period of absence in excess of six aggregate working days in any year of service, the employee shall furnish proof of illness to the Student Union. A certificate from a registered physiotherapist, registered medical practitioner, registered chiropractor, registered dentist, registered osteopath, registered optometrist, registered naturopath, registered clinical or counselling psychologist or a statutory declaration by the employee shall be accepted as proof of illness. In the absence of such proof, the period of absence from duty shall be without pay or, at the request of the employee, shall be deducted from the recreation leave credits of the employee.
5.4.7 An employee who contracts an infectious disease classified as notifiable to the Victorian Health Commission, or who is required by a medical practitioner to remain in isolation by reason of contact with a person suffering from a notifiable infectious disease, shall be granted isolation leave on full pay for the period that the employee is required to be absent and shall not have such leave deducted from sick leave credits.
