AT805114CRV - Federal Meat Industry (Retail and Wholesale) Award 2000 [Transitional]
28.1 For the purpose of this clause, year will mean a calendar year.
28.2 An employee other than a casual employee who is absent from work on account of personal illness or on account of injury will be entitled to paid sick leave equivalent to 60.8 hours of working time per year. The leave will accrue at the rate of five hours and four minutes for each completed month of service.
28.3 The employee will not be entitled to paid leave of absence for any period in respect of which the employee is entitled to workers’ compensation.
28.4 The employee shall, where practicable, notify the employer as soon as possible on the first day of absence, of the inability to attend for duty, and as far as practicable, state the nature of the injury or illness and the estimated duration of the absence. The employee will continue to advise of any continuation of absence from work.
28.5 The employee will prove to the satisfaction of their employer that the employee was unable on account of such illness or injury to attend for duty on the day or days for which leave is claimed.
28.6 An employer may by agreement with any employee grant an employee 60.8 hours holiday per year on full pay in lieu of payment for absence through sickness or, if such additional holiday cannot be granted, give 60.8 hours pay in lieu thereof.
28.7 Sick leave not taken will accumulate for a period of no longer than four years from the end of the year in which it occurs.
28.8 Any employee whose employment is terminated by the employer through no fault of the employee whilst absent on any period of paid sick leave will be entitled to payment for any accrued sick leave up to such time as the employee is fit to again work. The employee will prove to the satisfaction of the employer that the employee was unable on account of illness or injury to attend for duty on the day or days for which accrued sick leave payment is claimed.
28.9 Any employee, other than a casual, whose services have been terminated by the employer through no fault of the employee, and who reports for and accepts employment when next notified by the employer that work is available, will be entitled to have credited any sick leave which stood to the employee’s credit at the time of the termination of the employee’s services.
28.10 Where an employee is sick or injured on a day they are not due to attend work, the employee will not be entitled to sick pay nor will the employee’s sick pay entitlement be reduced as a result of such sickness or injury for that day.
