AP797062 - Student Union Employees Core Conditions Award 1997
5.6.1 An employee who has served for a continuous period of not less than twelve months and who submits to the Chief Executive Officer a certificate from a registered medical practitioner stating that she is pregnant and specifying the day on which it is expected she will be delivered shall be entitled to:
(a) leave on full pay for a continuous period of twelve weeks to be taken within the period commencing six weeks prior to the expected date of delivery and concluding twelve weeks after the actual date of delivery; and
(b) additional leave without pay as will bring the aggregate leave to a continuous period of twelve months. Such leave without pay shall be taken within the period from twenty weeks before the expected date of delivery to twelve months after the commencement of the period of paid leave.
5.6.2 An employee who has served for a continuous period of less than twelve months and who submits to the Chief Executive Officer a certificate from a registered medical practitioner stating that she is pregnant and specifying the day on which it is expected she will be delivered shall be entitled to:
(a) Leave on full pay for a continuous period at the rate of one week for each month of service, to be taken within the period commencing six weeks prior to the expected date of delivery and concluding twelve weeks after the actual date of delivery; and
(b) Additional leave without pay as will bring the aggregate total leave to a continuous period of twelve months. Such leave without pay shall be taken within the period from twenty weeks before the expected date of delivery to twelve months after the commencement of the period of paid leave.
5.6.3 An employee on maternity leave:
(a) may use accrued recreation leave and long service leave credits to cover any of the period of leave without pay; and
(b) who contracts an illness resulting from pregnancy or childbirth and such illness extends beyond the period of paid maternity leave shall, upon the submission of a medical certificate or statutory declaration, be entitled to be placed on sick leave for the period of illness subsequent to the date on which paid maternity leave expires.
5.6.4 The employee shall provide written notice to the Chief Executive Officer not less than four weeks preceding the date upon which she proposes to commence maternity leave stating the period of leave to be taken save that the Chief Executive Officer may waive the requirement for notice.
5.6.5 An employee shall be entitled to extend the period of maternity leave provided that the employee provides written notice of fourteen days to the Chief Executive Officer and the total period of leave is not in excess of the maximum aggregate period of entitlement to leave as per clauses 5.6.1 and 5.6.2. A request to reduce the period of leave originally specified as per sub-clause 5.6 shall be subject to approval by the Chief Executive Officer.
5.6.6 An employee shall confirm her intention to return to work by providing written notice to the Chief Executive Officer of not less than four weeks prior to the expiration of the period of maternity leave. Upon the expiration of the period of leave, the employee shall be entitled to resume work on a full-time or fractional-time basis as the case may be on her substantive classification and salary with duties commensurate with her qualifications and experience and as far as practicable similar to those performed by her prior to the taking of maternity leave.
5.6.7 Normal incremental advancement within salary classifications shall continue during maternity leave.
5.6.8 An employee on a short-term contract whose contract expires during a period of paid maternity leave shall not be eligible for further maternity leave after the date of expiry of the contract unless she is re-employed on a permanent basis or on a further contract. The provision of maternity leave shall not be grounds for the termination of a contract or for a refusal by the Student Union to offer re-employment.
5.6.9 An employee whose pregnancy, having proceeded for a period of not less than twenty weeks, terminates by miscarriage or results in a still-born child, shall be entitled to:
(a) paid leave as per sub-clause 5.6.1 or 5.6.2 as the case may be, or where the employee has commenced such leave, that period of paid leave outstanding; and
(b) such leave without pay as will bring the aggregate leave to a continuous period not exceeding six calendar months or to such longer period as may be certified by a medical practitioner up to a maximum of twelve calendar months.
5.6.10 Subject to sub-clause 5.6.9 maternity leave applied for but not commenced shall be cancelled where the pregnancy of an employee terminates other than by the birth of a living child.
