1) A learner is entitled to one day’s paid sick leave for every 26 days, in which the learner works or receives training during a learnership.
2) Subject to clause 22, an employer must pay a learner for a day's sick leave :
a) the allowance the learner would ordinarily have received for work on that day; and
b) on the learner's usual pay day.
3) An agreement may reduce the pay to which a learner is entitled in respect of any day's absence in terms of this clause if :
a) the number of days of paid sick leave is increased at least commensurately with any reduction in the daily amount of sick pay; and
b) the learner's entitlement to pay –
i) for any day's sick leave is at least 75 per cent of the allowance payable to the learner for the ordinary hours the learner would have worked on that day; and
ii) for sick leave over the sick leave cycle is at least equivalent to the learner's entitlement in terms of subclause (2).