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3.12 COMPASSIONATE LEAVE
The Company will endeavour to grant time off with pay for bereavement. Approval of bereavement
leave rests with a Company Director. 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 Company Director (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.

3.14 PARENTAL LEAVE
The Company offers up to 14 continuous* weeks unpaid Parental Leave for the purposes of caring for
each qualifying child. You will have the right to parental leave if you have one year's continuous
employment and:
• You are the natural or adoptive parent of a child who will be under the age of eight at
the end of the period of Parental Leave; or

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