PURPOSE
An employee with responsibilities
for their immediate family or members of
their household shall be entitled to utilise,
in accordance with this policy certain sick
and annual leave entitlements which they
have accrued for absences to provide care
and support for such persons when they are
ill or disabled.
SCOPE
Applies to all employees
of Globus Group Pty Ltd (Jupiter Pty Ltd)
in Australia, other than casual employees.
ELIGIBILITY
The entitlement to use
leave in accordance with this policy is
subject to:
- the employee being the
actual person responsible for the care and
support of the person concerned;
The person concerned must
be:
- Spouse of the employee.
- De facto spouse, who
in relation to the employee is a person
of the opposite sex and who lives with the
employee as the husband or wife on a bona-fide
domestic basis although not legally married
to that employee.
- A child or an adult child
(including an adopted child, stepchild,
a foster child or an ex nuptial child),
a parent (including foster parent and legal
guardian) grandparent, grandchild or sibling
of the employee or spouse or defacing spouse
of the employee.
- A same sex partner who
lives with the employee as the de facto
partner of that employee on a bona fide
domestic basis.
- A relative of the employee
who is a member of the same household where
for the purposes of this policy:
“relative”
means a person related by blood, marriage
or affinity.
“affinity” means a relationship
that one spouse because of marriage has
to
blood relatives of the other, and
“household” means a family group
living in the same domestic dwelling.
PROCEDURE
An employee shall wherever
practical, give their supervisor or manager
notice prior to the taking of family leave,
the name of the person requiring care, their
relationship to the employee, the reasons
for taking such leave and the estimated
length of the absence.
If it is not practical
for the employee to give prior notice of
family leave absence, the employee shall
notify their supervisor or manager at the
earliest opportunity on the first day of
absence.
Notice is to be given formally
by completing a sick leave request form.
The employee shall establish
by production of a medical certificate or
statutory declaration the illness of the
person concerned.
|
