| (1) | This clause 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. |
| (2) | An employer must grant an employee, during each annual leave cycle, at the request of an employee, four day's 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— |
| (i) | the employee's spouse or life partner; or |
| (ii) | the employee's parent, adoptive parent, grandparent, child, adopted child, grandchild or sibling. |
[Sectoral Determination 2, clause 20(2) substituted by section 5 of Notice No. R. 757, GG 33505, dated 27 August 2010]
| (3) | Subject to subclause (5), an employer must pay an employee for a day's family responsibility leave— |
| (a) | the wage the employee would ordinarily have received for work on that day; and |
| (b) | on the employee's usual payday. |
| (4) | An employee may take family responsibility leave in respect of the whole or part of a day. |
| (5) | Before paying an employee for leave in terms of this clause, an employer may require reasonable proof of an event contemplated in subclause (2) for which the leave was required. |
| (6) | 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. |
