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How much anual leave am I entitled to ifmI.work 08:00 to 13:00?
Your entitlement is based on how many days per week you ordinarily work, not the daily hours of 08:00 to 13:00. If you work 5 days per week, you are entitled to 20 working days, being four consecutive weeks, of paid annual leave per annual leave cycle. If you work fewer days, the entitlement is: 4 days per week, 16 days; 3 days, 12 days; 2 days, 8 days; 1 day, 4 days. 1
If your working days vary, annual leave is four times your average number of days worked per week during the preceding 12 months. A public holiday falling during annual leave on a day you would ordinarily work gives you one additional paid leave day. 1 2
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Labour Act 11 of 2007
(1) For the purpose of this section “ordinary work week” means the number of 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 6 24 5 20 4 16 3 12 2 8 1 4 (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 per week over the 12 months prior to the commencement of a new annual leave cycle, multiplied by four. (4) The number of leav...
Labour Act 11 of 2007
(7) An employer must not require or permit an employee to take annual leave during any other period of leave to which the employee is entitled in terms of this Part. (8) An employer must grant an employee an additional day of paid leave if a public holiday falls on a day - (a) during the employee’s annual leave; and (b) on which the employee would ordinarily have worked. (9) An employer must not require or permit an employee to work for the employer during any period of annual leave. (10) Except on termination of employment, an employer must not pay an employee an amount of money in substitution for the annual leave to which that employee is entitled, whether or not the employee requests or...
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...
Mines Works and Minerals Ordinance 20 of 1968-Regulations 1968-0143
mine or works in respect of each period of 312 ordinary working shifts employment with him, and not later than two months after the termination of the said period, leave of absence on full pay of not less than thirty consecutive days. Provided that - (a) the period of such leave shall not be concurrent with any period during which the employee is under notice of termination of employment, or is undergoing peace training under the South Africa Defence Act, 1912 (Act 13 of 1912), as it may be amended from time to time and as applied to the Territory; and (b) if any public holiday referred to in regulation 256 falls within the period of such leave, such holiday shall be added to the said period...
Local Authorities Act 23 of 1992-Regulations 1969-0119
Provided that - (a) Where an employee, because of a change in his working week, works more days a working week, his leave credit shall be calculated according to the formula below (leaving fractions of a day out of account): a + b 5 x a working days — where the employee works one working day a working week more; a + b 10 x a working days — where the employee works two working days a working week more; For the purpose of this formula – a = the employee’s leave credit on the day before the change in his working week, and b = the number of working days to which the employee was entitled annually before the change in his working week; [Paragraph (a) is amended by GN 10/1970.] (b) where an employ...