AT832792 - Retail and Wholesale Industry - SDAEA Wholesale Grocers Award 2003 [Transitional]
[27 substituted by PR968998 ppc 09Dec05]
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 7.2.
27.1 An employee shall on each occasion of the death within Australia of a wife, husband, mother, father, mother-in-law, father-in-law, daughter-in-law, son-in-law, grandmother, grandfather, brother, sister, child or stepchild be entitled on notice to leave up to and including the day of the funeral of such relation, and such leave shall be without deduction of pay for a period not exceeding the number of hours worked by the employee in three ordinary days work.
27.2 Employees shall be granted leave of absence for 30 calendar days (of which only three shall be paid) for the purpose of attending a funeral of a relative as defined in this clause where such death occurs outside the State of Victoria.
27.3 An employee may take unpaid bereavement leave by agreement with the employer.
27.4 Proof of such death shall be furnished by the employee to the satisfaction of his or her employer. Provided however that this clause shall have no operation while the period of entitlement to leave under it coincides with any other period of entitlement to leave. For the purposes of this clause the words wife and husband shall not include a wife or husband from whom the employee is separated but shall include a person who lives with the employee as a de facto wife or husband.
