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Basic Guide to Family Responsibility Leave (Private Security Sector)

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Workers my take up to 3 days of paid leave a year to attend to certain family responsibilities.

Sectoral Determination 6 applies to all employers and private security workers who are associated with guarding and protecting -

This includes those monitoring and responding to alarms.

The determination does not apply to workers who are –

managers; or
covered by another –
- sectoral determination, or
- bargaining council agreement.

The Basic Conditions of Employment Act applies in respect of any matter not covered by this sectoral determination.

Sectoral Determination 6: Private Security Sector

Basic conditions of employment applicable only to employers and workers in the private security sector

Number of Leave Days

Workers may take 3 days of paid family responsibility leave during each annual leave cycle (12 month periods from date of employment).

Family responsibility leave expires at the end of the annual cycle.

You may take family responsibility leave -

Employers may require reasonable proof of the birth, illness or death for which a worker requests leave.