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Paid Sick Leave?


emmaj

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In a permanent position it is usually the sort of thing that accrues so you may end up with 10 days (or whatever) a year but each pay you accrue a certain number of hours. I think it would be unusual to have to work for the full 12 months before you could access any sick pay. However, there may well be employers who have different contractual arrangements with respect to personal/sick leave. I can see that the 12 months for maternity leave would be quite the norm though.

 

Ah, I see you are on a 457 visa - there may well be different regulations regarding temporary employment.

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Don't know what job you're in Emma, but sick pay in Qld nursing is accrued on a weekly basis and calculated in hours and can be taken the moment you've accrued enough hours ie if you've accrued 16 hrs, you can take two days sick with pay.

 

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Be careful ! taking legitimate sick days off or days in lieu that you have earned or even holidays (sometimes) can be very detrimental to your career.

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It's usually accruable, if e.g. at the end of the year you've not used your 10 days then they will be carried over. There's no such thing as a self certificate here, if you're off for a few days it's best to get a Dr's cert.

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Most places have a limit on the number of consecutive days you can be off without a doctors certificate and they may have a limit on the total number of days without a certificate as well - it should all be written in the certified agreement you sign up to. Most places allow you to accrue personal leave but I do know of places where they dont - so check that out as well.

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Depending on the industry you can get a lot more days off; in my OH's contract with Rio Tinto it basically states you can have unlimited days but they'll ask questions if you're off for more than 3 months consecutively. As he lives in a mine camp for half the year they take the attitude that if you're in the slightest bit snuffly stay away so you don't spread it around. All right for some!

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Also be aware that you have to accrue vacation leave in a lot of places too - so for instance if you got four weeks vacation a year, you would only be entitled to take one week off after working there for three months. Also if you take leave without pay for whatever reason, some places have a system in place which means you don't accrue leave whilst on leave without pay!

 

First place OH worked used to shut down for 3-4 weeks over Christmas every year so you had to take that time off. He started in August and by December hadn't accrued sufficient holiday, so over shutdown he went into negative holiday, then spent the first few months of the next year getting back to zero! Ridiculous system!!

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