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Leave days in a year
Under section 23 of the Labour Act, an employee is entitled to at least four consecutive weeks of annual leave with full remuneration during each 12-month annual leave cycle.16
The number of leave days is based on the employee’s ordinary work week: 20 working days for a five-day work week and 24 working days for a six-day work week. If the employee does not ordinarily work a fixed number of days per week, the entitlement is calculated using the average number of days worked.12
The Labour Act controls over subordinate regulations. Therefore, the 24 working days stated in the 2025 regulations cannot reduce or override the Act’s minimum entitlement, although it corresponds to four weeks for an employee ordinarily working six days per week.13
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Labour Act 11 of 2007
days per week ordinarily worked by an employee. (2) Every employee is entitled to at least four consecutive weeks’ annual leave with full remuneration in respect of each annual leave cycle, calculated as follows: Number of days in ordinary work week Annual leave entitlement in working days
Labour Act 11 of 2007
(3) If an employee does not ordinarily work a fixed number of days per week, the employee is entitled to annual leave calculated on the basis of the average number of days worked
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...
Public Service Act 13 of 1995-Regulations 1981-0028
(c) Sick Leave - Number of days sick leave per cycle Full Pay Half Pay (i) Incumbents of posts of General Assistant Grade VIII and lower grades 60 60 (ii) Persons employed at educational and training institutions which close completely during periods when instruction is suspended 90 90 (iii) All other officers and employees 120 120 Accrual of Vacation Leave C15. 1 Subject to the provisions of regulation C8.2, accumulative vacation leave, excluding accumulative vacation leave placed to a person’s credit in terms of regulation C14.1(b)(i)(bb), shall accrue in respect of each completed month of service at the rate of one twelfth of the provision applicable to any officer or employee under regul...
Labour Act 11 of 2007
(a) “annual leave cycle” means the period of 12 consecutive months’ employment with the same employer immediately following - (i) an employee’s commencement of employment; or (ii) the completion of the last annual leave cycle; (b) “basic wage” means, for the purpose of calculating any basic condition of employment, that part of an employee’s remuneration in money including the cash equivalent of payment in kind, if any, as calculated in terms of section 10, paid in respect of work done during the hours ordinarily worked but does not include -