Family responsibility leave is governed by the Basic Conditions of Employment Act.
This leave applies to an employee—
- (a) who has been in employment with an employer for longer than four months; and
- (b) who works for at least four days a week for that employer.
An employer must grant an employee, during each annual leave cycle, at the request of the employee, three days’ paid leave, which the employee is entitled to take—
- (a) when the employee’s child is born;
- (b) when the employee’s child is sick; or
- (c) in the event of the death of—
- the employee’s spouse or life partner; or
- the employee’s parent, adoptive parent, grandparent, child, adopted child, grandchild or sibling.
Read more about family responsibility leave on our blog.
Page:
