Leave Types and Entitlements
There are three types of statutorily mandated paid leave, namely annual, sick and family responsibility leave. Any leave falling outside the scope of these leave types may be required to be taken as unpaid leave. For more information on the various leave types, please see the related articles below:
Note
The system entitlement policies follow the general BCEA guidelines for annual, sick, and family responsibility leave. If your business sector has different mandated leave entitlement minimums, we recommend creating custom entitlement policies to ensure that your employees are compliant with the statutory leave entitlements for your sector. For more information on how to create a custom entitlement policy, please read the help page below:
All of the above leave types can be recorded on the system in one of two ways: by the payroll administrator or via the employee self-service portal. Please note that recording leave may have pay implications. Each of these aspects is discussed in the following related sections:
Female employees are also legally entitled to unpaid maternity leave. Maternity, Parental and Commissioning Parental leave are treated slightly differently from the other leave types above and are discussed in the following sections: