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3.11 JURY SERVICE
If you are called for jury service, you will be granted paid leave from work. You should advise a MANAGER as
soon as you know when you are required to attend court. Your jury service summons must be given to a
MANAGER. You must also submit evidence of attendance when the jury service has been completed.

If, on the day, you are not called by the court, you will be required to report for work immediately afterwards.
In addition, it is expected that employees will return to work during any portion of the day that they are not
required in court.

Attendance in court on a personal matter does not qualify for paid leave and employees would normally be
expected to take annual leave or unpaid leave.

3.12 COMPASSIONATE LEAVE
The Company will endeavour to grant time off with pay for bereavement. Approval of bereavement leave rests
with a MANAGER. Each situation will be considered individually but, as a general guideline, the Company will
grant up to 3 days paid leave in the case of death of immediate family members and 1 day for relatives outside
the immediate family.

Member of the 'immediate family’ is defined as the husband/wife, spouse/life partner, parent, brother or sister,
son or daughter of the employee and the spouse/life partner, son, daughter, of the employee or any relative
living in the immediate household of the employee.

The Company fully appreciates that employees may need more time off, particularly in the case of a close family
member. Exceptional cases will be looked at individually and additional leave may be granted at Management's
discretion
3.13 FORCE MAJEURE
You have a right to take paid leave, pending approval of a MANAGER (of up to 3 days in any 12 consecutive
months, providing same does not exceed 5 days in any 36 consecutive months and absence for part of a day is
counted as one day of force majeure leave) for urgent family reasons owing to the injury or illness of:
• your spouse
• your child or adopted child;
• a person for whom you are In loco parentis;
• your parent;
• your brother or sister;
• a person who is living with you as husband or wife;
• Your grandparent.
• Persons in a relationship of domestic dependency, including same sex partners.

Entitlement to Force Majeure leave is limited to circumstances where the immediate presence of the employee,
at the place where the ill or injured person is situated, is indispensable.

3.13.1 Notification of Force Majeure Leave
As soon as practicable while on Force Majeure leave you must: -
• Confirm to the Company that you require the force majeure leave
• Failure to properly inform Management could lead to disciplinary action under the Company's
disciplinary procedure for absence without leave or taking leave when not entitled.

3.13.2 Terms and Conditions of Employment
Your contract of employment will continue during parental leave in its entirety and during your absence on Force
Majeure Leave you shall be regarded as being in continuous employment. Any Force Majeure leave will be paid.

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