General Staff Agreement 2009
ELICOS Teachers Agreement 2005
Child Care Employees' Agreement 2005
Policy
This policy is for the purposes of covering short periods of leave which may be in relation to an emergency or on compassionate grounds.
Employees are entitled to 3 days leave per calendar year which is not carried over to the next year.
Employees can only take 2 consecutive days at any one time.
The minimum period of leave which may be applied for is 1 hour.
Employees on a fixed term contract of 12 months or more are eligible for the full entitlement.
Employees on a fixed term contract less than 12 months are eligible for pro rata leave.
Part-timel employees are eligible for leave on a pro rata basis proportional to their fraction:
| hours worked per fortnight |
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22.5 hours |
| 75 |
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1 |
The University defines immediate family and household member as:
- a spouse (including a former spouse, a defacto spouse, a former defacto spouse and current or former same sex partner)
- a child or an adult child (including an adopted child, a step child or an ex nuptial child), parent, parent in law, foster parent, grandparent, grandchild or sibling of the employee
- a relative who lives with the employee in the same household
while endorsing an inclusive definition of family and recognising a wide range of relationships and structures which may include one or more of the following: extended family, marriage, friendship, adoption and dependency.
Employees accessing leave to provide care or support to another person whose care is their responsibility may be for a period of three consecutive days and may be approved in conjunction with other leave accessible for family responsibility purposes.
This policy does not apply to casuals.
Short Leave
Policy
Short Leave is for urgent private business that occurs without notice. Personal appointments, where possible, should be arranged outside the required hours of duty or be accommodated by flexible working hours.
Short leave can, for example, be used for an emergency at home such as storm/flood damage.
Short leave is not to be used for planned arrangements such as moving house.
Where an employee works flexible working hours and
- is unable to accumulate flexi leave credits because of work area convenience, or
- is unable to accumulate sufficient flexi leave credits in the current settlement period she/he may be granted short leave subject to the approval of the Approved Delegate
Employees on standard hours may be granted short leave subject to the prior approval of the Approved Delegate.
Short Leave should only be used in genuine circumstances and should not be cleared toward the end of the year.
Leave granted in accordance with this policy for the purpose of providing care or support to another person whose care is their responsibility may be approved in conjunction with other leave accessible for family responsibility purposes.
Compassionate/Bereavement Leave
An additional entitlement to Compassionate leave has been introduced through the Work Choices legislation which overrides the provisions in the Agreements.
Policy
Compassionate/bereavement leave is for leave at the time of death of a family or household member or on other compassionate grounds such as providing support and care to another person, whose care is the responsibility of the employee, with a personal illness, or injury that poses a serious threat to life or dies.
Paid compassionate/bereavement leave is available for 2 days on each permissible occasion.
Employees can take 2 consecutive days of compassionate/bereavement leave which is incorporated in the three day entitlement.
Subsequent compassionate/bereavement leave in a calendar year can be accessed on each permissible occasion in addition to the 3 day entitlement.
Permissible occasion is when an immediate family or household member contracts a life threatening illness, or sustains a life threatening injury, or dies and in such a situation leave could be utilised as follows:
- if a family member has a heart attack which led to the family members death, an employee may access a total of four days paid leave as they were two separate incidents. Contracting a life threatening illness and subsequently dying are two permissible occasions, however, the first two days entitlement must be taken during the illness.
Procedures
- Download leave form from web or enter leave via ESS
- Complete all sections of the form
- Pass form to Delegated Authority for approval
- Send form to Human Resource Services (M350) when approved if not submitted via ESS
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