47AFPersonal leave

### 47AF Personal leave > [*\[Section 47AF of Part III Inserted by No. 74 of 2005, s. 8, Applied:15 Feb 2006\]*](/view/html/inforce/2006-02-15/act-2005-074#GS8@EN) > > > (1)  Unless prescribed otherwise in an Act, award or agreement, an employee, other than a casual employee or a part-time employee receiving a loading in lieu of sick leave, is entitled to a minimum of 10 days of paid personal leave for each completed year of employment. > > > (2)  In the first year of employment, an employee’s entitlement to paid personal leave accrues at the rate of five-sixths of a day for each completed month of employment. > > > (3)  In the second year of employment and each subsequent year, an employee's entitlement to paid personal leave falls due on the day on which the second or subsequent year of employment commences. > > > (4)  A part-time employee is entitled to be paid personal leave calculated in the same proportion that his or her part-time hours bears to the ordinary hours of an equivalent full-time employee. > > > (5)  Unless prescribed otherwise in an Act, award or agreement, or by mutual consent between an employer and an employee, paid personal sick leave is subject to the employee providing adequate proof of illness to the employer in respect of each period of absence. > > > (6)  Untaken paid personal leave accrues without limit. > > > (7)  In this section, "**paid personal leave**" means personal sick leave, carer’s leave and bereavement leave.