Sick leave and bereavement leave
Employees continue to be entitled to sick leave and bereavement leave during the period they are working out their notice. There is no entitlement to receive payment for unused sick leave on resignation.
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Employment Relations
Holidays and leave
- Annual holidays
- Establishing entitlements
- Payment for annual holidays
- Employees after completion of 12 months' service
- Employees during their first year of service
- Employees who take annual holidays in advance of entitlement
- Employees taking parental leave
- On an employee's resignation or termination
- Employees on genuine fixed-term agreements
- Moving from fixed-term to permanent employment with the same employer
- Where the fixed-term agreement is not genuine or exceeds one year
- Employees with intermittent or irregular work patterns
- When should annual holiday pay be paid?
- Regular annual closedowns
- Unpaid leave on annual holidays
- Cashing-up annual holidays
- Employment agreements
- Payment for other holidays and leave
- Public holidays
- Transferring a public holiday
- Taking a public holiday
- Public holidays during a close-down period
- Payment when employee does not work on a public holiday
- Payment for working on public holidays
- Payment where an employee is sick or bereaved on a public holiday
- Alternative holidays for working public holidays
- Requirement to work on a public holiday
- Employment agreements
- Effect of various work patterns
- Public holiday dates
- Shop opening hours
- Shop trading - Area exemptions
- Sick leave
- Bereavement leave
- Parental leave
- Who can take parental leave
- What paid and unpaid leave is available
- Parental leave provisions in employment agreements
- Applying for parental leave and payments
- Redundancy during pregnancy or leave
- Employer responsibilities
- Information for JPs and Accountants
- Self-employed parental leave
- Infant feeding at work
- Returning to work
- Resolving issues
- Taxpayer-funded paid parental leave
- Paid parental leave calculators
- Forms and sample letters
- Entitlements on resignation
- Recording requirements
- Managing changes to employment agreements
- Employment relations education leave
- Defence force volunteers
- Resolving problems
- Holidays and leave tool
