Are Casual Employees Entitled to Sick Leave?

The simple answer is Yes, provided they meet the following criteria:

Sick Leave Entitlements for Casual (one can also assumes this applies to Bereavement and Family Violence Leave)

All employees are entitled to sick leave if:

• they have six months of current continuous employment with the same employer, or

• they have worked for the employer for six months for:

• an average of 10 hours per week, and
• at least one hour every week or 40 hours every month.

For each 12-month period after meeting the above, each employee gets at least 10 days of sick leave. If in any year the employee doesn’t meet the criteria, then they don’t get any new sick leave entitlement but can use their sick leave balance which may have carried over. An employee may re-qualify for sick leave as soon as they meet the criteria.

Sick leave entitlements are not pro-rated in any way. For example, even if a part-time employee only works three days a week, they still get ten days of sick leave a year and can accumulate up to 20 sick days a year.