Special leave for infectious diseases
15 Special leave for infectious diseases
If a prescribed employee is absent from duty and provides to the
Chief Executive a medical certificate indicating that the prescribed employee has an infectious disease, the Chief Executive must, if satisfied that the infectious disease was probably contracted by the employee while on duty or as a result of the employee's contact with the students or staff of
TAFE SA, grant the employee special leave with pay (not debited against sick leave credits) for the period of the employee's absence from duty due to the infectious disease.
Special leave granted under this regulation must not exceed a total of 52 weeks in aggregate for any particular infectious disease.
Special leave granted under this regulation is in addition to any other leave to which a prescribed employee may be entitled.
In this regulation—
infectious disease means Chicken Pox,
Diphtheria, Erysipelas, Glandular Fever, Infectious Hepatitis, Herpetic
Whitlow, Infectious Mononucleosis, Measles, Meningitis, Mumps, Poliomyelitis,
Rubella, Scarlet Fever, Staphylococcal Infection of a cutaneous nature,
Typhoid, Whooping Cough, or any other disease determined by the board to be an infectious disease for the purposes of this regulation.
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