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[0] 2 Personal [1] All Employees except those on casual appointments. [2] Full-Time Employees: 10 days on full pay per year Fractional Employees: Proportion of 10 days based on hours worked. [3] Personal leave can be utilised in the following circumstances: absence through personal illness or injury, or subject to the Employee being primarily responsible for the care and support for members of their immediate family or members of their household, when they are ill, injured, require ongoing care and assistance due to disability, frailty, chronic illness or pain or there is an unexpected emergency affecting their immediate family (after an Employee has utilised their three days carer's leave entitlement per calendar year - see 2b). Applications for personal leave of longer than three days must be accompanied by a medical certificate or statutory declaration stating the illness of the person concerned. Personal leave will be cumulative in advance during the first year of service. For appointments of less than one year, the leave in proportion to the amount of personal leave of a full-time Employee will be available in advance. Overtime taken as time off in lieu to care for members of immediate family or household, during ordinary hours, will be taken at the ordinary rate, that is an hour for each hour worked. Alternatively, an Employee may elect, with the consent of the University, to work 'make-up time', under which the Employee takes time off during ordinary hours and works those hours at a later time during the spread of ordinary hours. Personal leave without pay may be taken when: leave relates to an absence caused by ill-health and personal leave entitlements have been exhausted, and the Employee wishes to preserve annual leave and long service leave credits. When personal leave without pay is granted the conditions outlined in the University of Southern Queensland Enterprise Agreement apply. [5] Verbal notice on the day illness commences. An online absence request is to be submitted as soon as possible, or immediately following return to work. [6] Online utilising PeopleSoft Employee Self Service (ESS) A hard copy medical certificate for leave in excess of three days must be sighted by the Supervisor prior to approving the leave and forwarded to Human Resources for record keeping. [4] 
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