South Australian Numbered Acts South Australian Numbered Acts (1) Schedule 3,
section 4—after subsection (4) insert:
(5) An employee may
take sick leave for a part of a day in a block of 1 or more hours.
(6) The following
provisions apply in connection with subsection (5):
(a) if a
period of sick leave exceeds 1 hour but does not equal a whole number of
hours, the fraction of an hour will be taken to be a whole hour; and
(b) when
the number of hours taken as sick leave under subsection (5) equals the
number of hours usually worked by the employee in a day, then the employee
will be taken to have taken 1 day's sick leave.
(2) Schedule
3—after section 5 insert:
6—Carer's leave
(1) An employee with
an accrued entitlement to sick leave under a preceding section may use up to 5
days of that entitlement in each year to care for and support members of the
employee's family when they are sick.
(2) The employee must,
if practicable before taking leave under this section, give the employer
notice of—
(a) the
employee's intention to take the leave; and
(b) the
reason for the leave; and
(c) the
name of the person requiring the care and that person's relationship to the
employee; and
(d) the
time the employee expects to be absent,
but if it is not possible to give the notice before commencing the leave, the
employee must give the notice as soon as practicable in the circumstances.
(3) The employee must,
if required by the employer, produce reasonable evidence of the sickness and
the need for the employee's care.
(4) An employee is,
while taking leave under this section, entitled to pay at the same rate as if
he or she was on sick leave.