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How much annual leave is an employee entitled to under the Labour Act?
Under the supplied Labour Act regulation, an employee is entitled to 24 working days’ paid annual leave per year, with full remuneration, for each 12 consecutive months worked. 1
A separate supplied contract form leaves the number of annual-leave days blank and therefore does not state a specific entitlement. 2
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Labour Act 11 of 2007-Regulations 2025-308
5.1 Annual paid leave The Employee shall be entitled to 24 working days of paid leave per annum with full remuneration in respect of each period of 12 consecutive months worked by the Employee. 5.2 Off season leave 5.2.1 The Employee shall be entitled to ____ days of off season leave with full remuneration as per the agreement negotiated by both Parties. 5.2.2 Off season days shall be taken during the closed season, where applicable, or during the period where the vessel is undergoing repair or long refit or is not operating for any other reasons which have been spelled out in the agreement mentioned in subsection (1). 5.3 Shore leave 5.3.1 The Employee shall be entitled to paid shore leave...
Labour Act 11 of 2007-Regulations 2025-308
5.1 Annual Paid leave 5.1.1 The Employee shall be entitled to _____ working days of leave per month worked by the Employee during the period of validity of the contract of employment. 5.2.2 If the period of validity of the contract does not begin on the first day of a month and does not end on the last day of another month, the number of leave days accrued by the Employee for the first and last months of the contract of employment should be only a pro-rata portion of the number of leave days specified in section 5.1.1 of this contract of employment. 5.2 Shore leave 5.2.1 The Employee shall be entitled to paid shore leave calculated as follows: (a) one full day for every seven days worked at...
Local Authorities Act 23 of 1992-Regulations 1969-0119
(iii) Study leave may be granted only twice in respect of the same subject or year. OTHER SPECIAL PURPOSES: (2) (i) Special leave with or without pay may be granted to employees under the following circumstances: Provided that where leave without pay is taken by any employee his salary increase date and the date on which his leave bonus is payable shall be extended by the same number of days and that leave without pay shall not be deemed to be service for the calculation of an employee’s leave credit - (a) Without pay if an employee has no vacation leave to his credit and the council is satisfied that extraordinary circumstances exist which justify the granting of leave; (b) an employee who...
Local Authorities Act 23 of 1992-Regulations 1969-0119
(5) An employee to whom sick leave is granted on half pay or without pay and who has the necessary vacation leave to his credit may choose whether he wishes to take vacation leave in place of sick leave on half pay or without pay. (6) Any period of absence on account of illness whether on full pay or half pay shall in all respects be deemed to be service. [Subregulation (6) is substituted by GN 162/1971. ] (7) In granting sick leave the period of absence shall be calculated from the first working day on which the employee is absent from work until and including the working day preceding the working day on which he assumes duty and shall include Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays falling...
Local Authorities Act 23 of 1992-Regulations 1969-0119
continuous service and with due allowance for such circumstances as it may deem fit: Provided that - (a) bonus leave shall not be granted before an employee has completed at least five years of continuous service (leave without pay excluded) with the council concerned; (b) not more than 90 days bonus leave for the first five years continuous service and thereafter 18 days for every completed year of continuous service (leave without pay excluded) shall accrue to any employee; (c) bonus leave shall not accrue in respect of periods in which leave without pay is taken; (d) the council may in granting bonus leave take into account a period of continuous service of not more than five years before...
Local Authorities Act 23 of 1992-Regulations 1969-0119
b x a where the employee works a seven-day working week. In the above formula - a = the number of days vacation leave standing to the employee’ s credit on the date of his death or the date on which he leaves the service; and b = the annual salary received by an employee on the date of his death or the date on which he leaves the services. [Paragraph (b) is amended by GN 38/1971.] (c) In paragraph (a) “ child” shall mean a legitimate child of an employee, including any child born after the death of such employee, a step- child, an illegitimate child or an adopted child which is unmarried or under the age of 18 years; or which is full-time at school, college or university, or which receives o...