Enterprise Agreement 2011-14 - Department of Climate Change

Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency – Enterprise Agreement 2011-14
o where aggregated full day absences total more than 30 calendar days, the entire
period of leave without pay defers accrual.
31.5. Non-ongoing employees will be credited 4 days (30 hours), or the part time equivalent upon
commencement and each anniversary of commencement. Thereafter personal/carer’s leave
of 10.91 hours will be credited monthly, to a total credit of 20 days (150 hours) per annum or
part time equivalent.
31.6. Personal leave will not be debited where an employee is medically unfit for duty or required
to undertake carer’s responsibilities on a public holiday which the employee would
otherwise have observed.
31.7. If an employee is unexpectedly unable to attend work the employee or his or her
representative should make a reasonable effort to call the relevant supervisor before
9:30am.
31.8. An employee will provide a medical certificate from registered health practitioners or, where
it is not practical to provide a medical certificate, a statutory declaration or in the case of
Carer’s leave a personal declaration or other supporting evidence acceptable to his/her
manager (on his/her manager’s request) in the following circumstances:
o where the employee is or will be absent on personal leave for three (3) or more
consecutive working days;
o where the employee has taken more than ten days personal leave in an accrual year
and has been directed to provide evidence prior to taking additional leave;
o if the manager has reason to believe that the employee’s absence is not consistent
with the appropriate use of personal leave.
31.9. If an ongoing employee with 12 months’ service has exhausted his or her personal/carer’s
leave credits, the, the Secretary may allow the employee to anticipate and deduct from up
to 10 days of the following year’s personal/carer’s leave credits.
31.10. Employees (including casual employees) are entitled to two (2) days unpaid carer’s leave for
each occasion when a member of the employee’s immediate family, or a member of the
employee’s household, requires care or support because of:
o A personal illness, or personal injury, affecting the member; or
o An unexpected emergency affecting the member.
31.11. Unpaid carer’s leave may be taken as a single continuous period, or in separate periods as
agreed by the employee and employer
31.12. An employee cannot take unpaid personal/carer’s leave if the employee could instead take
paid personal/carer’s leave.
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