Sectoral Determination No 5 : Learnerships
21. Sick leave

 

 

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).