AP806816CRV - Hairdressing and Beauty Services - Victoria - Award 2001
32.1 Full-time employees
32.1.1 A full-time employee who is absent from work as a result of personal ill health or accident is entitled to sick pay as follows:
32.1.1(a) During his or her first year of service with an employer, leave not in excess of 38 hours of working time on ordinary pay, which accrues on the basis of 6-1/3 hours of working time for each completed month of service for the first six months of service, with that employer. On application by the employee during the seventh month of employment and subject to the availability of an unclaimed balance of sick leave the employee is to be paid for any sick leave taken during the first six months and for which payment was not made.
32.1.1(b) During any further year of service, a full-time employee is entitled to leave of 60 hours 48 minutes on ordinary pay.
32.2 Part-time and casual employees
32.2.1 A part-time or casual employee who is absent from work as a result of personal ill health or accident is entitled to sick pay as follows:
32.2.1(a) During the first year of employment - three hours ten minutes pay on ordinary pay for each 152 hours of service with the employer.
32.2.1(b) During any subsequent years - five hours four minutes pay on ordinary pay for each 152 hours of service with the employer.
32.3 Notification of absence and certification
An employee must take all reasonable steps to notify an employer, within two hours of the normal starting time of work, of the absence on sick leave, and if requested the employee must sign a Statutory Declaration as to the reason for the absence where more than one single day absence takes place in each sick leave year; and where any absence exceeds three consecutive days the employer may require the production of a medical certificate of a legally qualified medical practitioner.
32.4 Accumulation
If the full period of sick leave as provided above is not taken in any year, such portion as is not taken, provided an employee remains in the service of the one employer, or any successor or successors of the employer, is cumulative from year to year.
