Incapacity Leave and Ill-health Retirement Management
Incapacity Leave
The leave dispensation as determined in the Leave Determination, read with the applicable collective agreements, provides for normal sick leave of 36 working days in a sick leave cycle of three years. If an employee has exhausted his/her normal sick leave, the Employer, may at his/her discretion grant additional incapacity leave (temporary or permanent).
The Employer must investigate the nature and extent of the employee’s incapacity, in accordance with item 10(1) of Schedule 8 of the Labour Relations Act.
Ill-health retirement
The Employer may consider the discharge of an employee on account of ill-health, based on medical evidence and in terms of the applicable employment legislation.
The leave dispensation as determined in the Leave Determination, read with the applicable collective agreements, provides for normal sick leave of 36 working days in a sick leave cycle of three years. If an employee has exhausted his/her normal sick leave, the Employer, may at his/her discretion grant additional incapacity leave (temporary or permanent).
The Employer must investigate the nature and extent of the employee’s incapacity, in accordance with item 10(1) of Schedule 8 of the Labour Relations Act.
Ill-health retirement
The Employer may consider the discharge of an employee on account of ill-health, based on medical evidence and in terms of the applicable employment legislation.