Telstra Corporation General Conditions Award 2001
AP806392 - Telstra Corporation General Conditions Award 2001
[25 substituted by PR927702 ppc 31Jan03]
25.1 Personal carer’s leave
25.1.1 Personal/Carers leave will comprise an entitlement of 15 days sick leave on full pay on the date of commencement of full time/part time (subject to Clause 8.2.2 (c)) employment and on completion of each 12 month period of service thereafter.
25.1.2 Paid personal/carers leave is available for absence:
25.1.2(i) Due to personal illness or injury (See clause 25.2);
25.1.2(ii) Where an employee is required to care for an immediate family or household member who is sick. A maximum of 5 days paid leave per year which is to be taken from, and is not additional to, the 15 days of paid leave per year specified in clause 25.2.2(i) (See clause 25.3);
25.1.3 The entitlement to use carers leave under this clause is subject to the person in respect of whom the leave is being taken being either:
● a member of the employee's immediate family; or
● a member of the employee's household.
25.1.3(i) The term immediate family includes:
● a spouse, and a former spouse, of the employee; and
● a child or an adult child (including an adopted child, a stepchild or an ex nuptial child), parent, grandparent, grandchild or sibling of the employee or spouse of the employee.
25.1.3(ii) A member of the employee’s household means:
● A person who normally lives at the same residence as the employee.
25.1.4 In the event that the current year's aggregate personal/carers leave is exhausted, employees may access their accumulated sick leave for personal sick leave, and carers leave (subject to a total cap of 5 days per annum).
25.1.5 Employees who have accrued any half days personal leave as at 31 January 2003 will have such accrued personal leave converted to full days on a pro rata basis.
25.2 Personal sick leave
25.2.1 Subject to clause 25.4, in the case of illness, an employee, on production of satisfactory medical or other supporting evidence, will be entitled to paid sick leave in accordance with this clause.
25.2.2 An employee is entitled to the following amount of paid sick leave for absence due to personal illness or injury. Subject to clause 25.2.3, these entitlements are cumulative.
Leave on full pay | |
(working days) | |
On date of commencement of full time/part time |
15 |
(subject to Clause 8) employment |
|
On completion of twelve months service |
15 |
On completion of each additional twelve months service |
15 |
25.2.3 Sick leave entitlements which are untaken at the completion of the year shall accumulate on the following scale:
25.2.3(i) Previous years’ untaken accumulated sick leave, plus
25.2.3(ii) The balance of personal carers leave, provided that such remaining personal/carers leave does not exceed 15 days leave on full pay less any personal sick leave or carers leave taken by the employee during the year.
25.2.4 Sick leave taken by an employee in accordance with this clause is deducted from the amount of aggregated personal/carers leave.
25.2.5 Sick leave used by an employee on a public holiday which but for the sick leave they would have observed will not be debited.
25.2.6 The maximum period of paid sick leave allowable in respect of any continuous absence through illness will be 52 weeks.
25.2.7 Where any employee has exhausted all leave allowable with pay, the employee may be granted sick leave without pay.
25.2.8 In respect of any continuous period of absence, sick leave with and without pay shall not exceed a total of 78 weeks.
25.2.9 If an employee is ill while on annual leave for at least one day and produces satisfactory medical evidence, the employee will be entitled to have the period of illness during the annual leave debited against their sick leave entitlement and to take the period of annual leave during which they were sick at another time fixed by Telstra within twelve months.
25.3 Carers leave
25.3.1 Subject to clause 25.4, an employee with responsibilities in relation to members of either their immediate family or household is entitled to use up to a maximum of five days per annum of their aggregate personal/carers leave entitlement to provide care and support for such persons when they are ill, on production of satisfactory medical or other supporting evidence.
25.3.2 Where practicable, the employee must give prior notice of the intention to take carers leave, or otherwise notify of such absence at the first opportunity on the day of absence.
25.4 Supporting evidence of sick leave and carers leave
25.4.1 An employee will be entitled to up to a total of five days paid leave for sick leave and carers leave purposes in any sick leave year without medical or other supporting evidence. However, medical or other supporting evidence must be provided where a period of sick leave exceeds three consecutive days, or an employee's supervisor requests medical or other supporting evidence within a day of an employee resuming work.
25.4.2 If an employee's supervisor does request medical or other supporting evidence and an employee has not sought medical evidence during absences of up to a total of five days in any sick leave year, a statutory declaration describing the illness will be satisfactory supporting evidence.
The provisions of clauses 25.4.1 and 25.4.2 do not apply in cases of personal sick leave during annual leave.
25.5 Bereavement leave
25.5.1 An employee is entitled to a maximum of three days paid bereavement leave per annum on the occasion of the death of a member of the employee's immediate family or household, as defined in sub clauses 25.1.3 (i) and (ii).
25.5.2 Bereavement leave (three days) is non-cumulative.
25.5.3 If Telstra so requests, the employee attesting to the death must produce evidence.
25.5.4 In the event that the current year's bereavement leave is exhausted, employees can take leave without pay, with the approval of their manager, for the purposes of bereavement leave (subject to a total cap of three days without pay per annum).
