Originally Posted by
ddrwk
You couldn't be more wrong.
There are currently two systems.
Personal Leave is accrued at 76 duty hour per year. When you are sick you are deducted, from this balance, the duty hours for the planned trip and paid whatever the planned credit was.
Sick Leave is an older system which accrued at 15 days per year but paid at 3 hours per day regardless of the planned credit. (There are some top up provisions which allow burning more days to increase credit)
Personal leave is used first till exhausted and then if necessary sick leave is used.
Rated De the case to which you refer is currently under appeal
Yes, the matter is pending review, however other than the cost to provide recompense, the FWA narrative was pretty clear; the intent and execution of the statute (and any contracts thereafter) was to ensure all workers (Full-time) had access to ten days paid, cumulative sick leave on an annualised basis. Employers no doubt will argue that the cost imposition to correct this error is prohibitive.
What is interesting is that smaller enterprises may receive a reprieve, but companies the size of Qantas ought be compensating those pilots and other shift workers that have been incorrectly deducted the statutory entitlements.