AT794740CRA - Retail and Wholesale Industry - Shop Employees - Australian Capital Territory - Award 2000 [Transitional]
[31A inserted by PR964938 ppc 11Nov05]
The provisions of this clause apply to full-time and regular 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 13.4.4.
31A.1 Death within Australia
An employee after one month’s continuous employment is entitled to three days or 22.8 hours paid leave on each occasion where a member of the employee’s immediate family or household in Australia dies.
31A.2 Death outside Australia
31A.2.1 An employee after one month’s continuous employment with his/her present employer and on production of evidence satisfactory to his/her employer, must on the death of a near relative outside Australia, be granted three days’ leave on full pay as bereavement leave. For the purpose of this clause a near relative means the father, mother, husband or wife, brother, sister, son, daughter, mother-in-law, or father-in-law of the employee. Wife or husband does not include a wife or husband from whom the employee is separated but includes a person who lives with the employee as a de facto wife or husband as the case may be.
31A.3An employee is entitled to use accumulated personal leave as paid bereavement leave up to three days or 22.8 hours in any one year on each occasion when a member of the employee’s immediate family or household in Australia dies and the employee has already used the current year’s personal leave entitlement under 31.3.
31A.4Where an employee has exhausted all bereavement leave entitlements, the employee is entitled to unpaid bereavement leave. The employer and employee should agree on the length of the unpaid leave. In the absence of agreement an employee is entitled to use unpaid leave of up to three days or 22.8 hours in any one year when a member of the employee’s immediate family or household in Australia dies.
31A.5 Proof of death must be provided to the satisfaction of the employer, if requested.
