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53.16 Replacement Employees
(a)
(b)
A replacement Employee is an Employee specifically engaged or temporarily promoted
or transferred, as result of another Employee taking parental leave.
Before an Employer engages a replacement Employee the Employee must inform that
person of the temporary nature of the employment and of the return to work rights of
the Employee who is being replaced.
53.17 Effect of Parental Leave on Service
(a) A period of parental leave does not break an Employee’s continuity of service.
(b) Subject to paragraph (d) below, any period of paid parental leave, including paid leave
as a result of access to accrued entitlements under sub-clause 53.10 will count as
service.
(c) Subject to paragraph (e) below, any period of unpaid parental leave will not count as
service.
(d) Where any Employee elects to take paid parental leave at half pay in accordance with
sub-clause 53.9, only the first 14 weeks or 18 weeks, whichever is applicable, of the
period of paid parental leave will count as service.
(e) With the exception of any period during which the Employee is engaged in outside
employment during normal working hours, the first 14 weeks of unpaid maternity or
adoption leave, will count as service.
53.18 Superannuation Contributions during Period of Parental Leave
(a) This provision is to provide Employer superannuation contributions benefits to female
employees who may take unpaid leave during the first six months of their parental
leave.
(b) An Employee who is either the birth giver or primary carer in the case of adoption leave,
for the first six (6) months of parental leave will continue to receive Employer
superannuation contributions, as per relevant superannuation legislation and
superannuation fund rules, for the first six (6) months of parental leave.
54. Compassionate Leave
54.1 For the purposes of this clause:
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
“child” means birth, an adopted, step, exnuptial or adult child;
“de facto spouse” means a person who lives with the Employee as husband, wife or
same sex partner on a genuine domestic basis, although not legally married to the
Employee;
“immediate family” means a spouse, child, parent, grandparent, grandchild, or sibling of
the Employee or of a spouse of an Employee; and
“spouse” includes a former spouse, de facto spouse and former de facto spouse.
54.2 The provisions of this clause apply to Employees other than casual Employees and replace all
Schedule and By-law provisions relating to Bereavement Leave.
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NTPS NURSES AND MIDWIVES’ 2011-2014 Enterprise Agreement