Western Australian Consolidated Acts

MINIMUM CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT ACT 1993 - SECT 20

20 .         Employee may use entitlement as paid sick leave

        (1)         Subject to subsection (2), an employee who is unable to work as a result of the employee’s illness or injury, is entitled to use any part of the employee’s entitlement under section 19(1) as paid leave for periods of absence from work resulting from the illness or injury.

        (2)         If an employee’s illness or injury is attributable to —

            (a)         the employee’s serious and wilful misconduct; or

            (b)         the employee’s gross and wilful neglect,

                in the course of the employee’s employment, the employee is not entitled to be paid for any period of absence from work resulting from the illness or injury.

        [Section 20 inserted by No. 36 of 2006 s. 31(1).]