{"id":806,"date":"2016-05-18T09:16:22","date_gmt":"2016-05-18T07:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anthonywhatmore.co.za\/?p=806"},"modified":"2016-05-19T09:50:12","modified_gmt":"2016-05-19T07:50:12","slug":"family-responsibility-leave-your-faqs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anthonywhatmore.co.za\/index.php\/2016\/05\/18\/family-responsibility-leave-your-faqs\/","title":{"rendered":"FAMILY RESPONSIBILITY LEAVE \u2013 YOUR FAQs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/anthonywhatmore.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/familyleave.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-807\" src=\"http:\/\/anthonywhatmore.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/familyleave.png\" alt=\"familyleave\" width=\"135\" height=\"135\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When can an employee take fully-paid leave to deal with family matters and not have it deducted from his\/her annual leave entitlement? \u00a0This is often a source of confusion for both employers and employees, but it needn\u2019t be. \u00a0The BCEA (Basic Conditions of Employment Act) sets everything out clearly, although note that some employers grant more favourable terms than the statutory minimums, either in their discretion or in terms of a \u201ccollective agreement\u201d with a trade union.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Am I entitled to family responsibility leave?<\/em><\/strong> Yes, if you are covered by the BCEA (most employees are) and &#8211;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You have worked for over 4 months, and<\/li>\n<li>You work 4 days a week or more.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><em>When can I take it?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li>When your child is born\u00a0(often referred to as \u201cpaternity leave\u201d and not to be confused with \u201cmaternity leave\u201d \u2013 more on that in a future newsletter),\u00a0or<\/li>\n<li>When your child (note that \u201cchild\u201d means under 18 years old) is sick, or<\/li>\n<li>In the event of the death of your spouse or life partner, parent or adoptive parent, grandparent, child or adopted child, grandchild or sibling.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><em>How many days can I take?<\/em><\/strong> You have 3 days\u00a0in each annual leave cycle \u2013 these days cannot be accumulated and lapse if not taken. <strong><em>What proof must I give my employer?<\/em><\/strong> Employers may require \u201creasonable proof\u201d of the birth, illness or death. <strong><em>Small businesses: can you contract out?<\/em><\/strong> If you are a defined \u201csmall business\u201d (i.e. you employ less than 10 employees, and conduct only one business which is not formed by division or dissolution of an existing business), you can agree in writing with your employees that family responsibility days will count against their annual leave. \u00a0This does not apply to domestic employees or public servants.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When can an employee take fully-paid leave to deal with family matters and not have it deducted from his\/her annual leave entitlement? \u00a0This is often a source of confusion for both employers and employees, but it needn\u2019t be. \u00a0The BCEA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[32,31,30],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anthonywhatmore.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anthonywhatmore.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anthonywhatmore.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anthonywhatmore.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anthonywhatmore.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=806"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/anthonywhatmore.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":808,"href":"https:\/\/anthonywhatmore.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806\/revisions\/808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anthonywhatmore.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anthonywhatmore.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anthonywhatmore.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}