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By Meluse Kapatamoyo
If you fall sick, are you worried about losing your salary or even your job? Do you know that it would be illegal to fire you or take away your salary if you are ill and have a doctor’s certificate?
According to part seven of the Employment Act on Protection of Wages:
- Except as may be provided in any contract of service, collective agreement or other written law favourable to the employee, if any employee becomes temporarily incapacitated in consequence of sickness or accident not occasioned by her/his own default, such an employee shall, provided she/he has produced a valid medical certificate, receive pay for the days absent up to a maximum of twenty-six working days in any period of twelve months. However, an employer may continue to pay such employee for any longer period if the employer so wishes.
- In addition to the leave prescribed above, every female employee shall be entitled to one day’s absence from work each month without having to produce a valid medical certificate.
- Any wages payable to an employee under the provisions of this section shall be reduced by the amount of any compensation received by such employee during such period of incapacity under any law relating to worker’s compensation.
- Subject to the provisions of any other written law, unless otherwise agreed between the parties thereto, a contract of service shall not be terminated while any of the provisions of this section apply.
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