Dental Technicians Act, 1979 (Act No. 19 of 1979)Board NoticesNotice Concerning the Conditions of Employment of Dental Technicians who are Employees10. Family Responsibility |
| 10.1 | Any employee who has been in employment with the employer for longer than 4 (four) months and who works for at least 4 (four) days a week for that employer, is entitled to leave in terms of this clause. |
| 10.2 | At the request of the employee, an employer must grant an employee during each annual leave cycle 3 (three) days paid leave, which the employee is entitled to take— |
| (a) | when his/her child is born; |
| (b) | when his/her child is sick; or |
| (c) | in the event of the death of |
| (1) | his/her spouse or life partner; or |
| (2) | his/her parent, grandparent, child, grandchild or sibling. |
| 10.3 | An employer must pay an employee for a day's family responsibility leave the wage that the employee would ordinarily have received for work on that day and pay it on the employee's usual pay day: Provided that before paying an employee for leave in terms of this clause, an employer may require reasonable proof of an event contemplated in sub-clause (2) for which the leave has required. |
| 10.4 | An employee's unused entitlement to leave in terms of this clause lapses at the end of the annual leave cycle in which it accrues. |