Employer Guides & TemplatesA clearer starting point
A clearer starting point
for your leave policy.
An editable South African leave policy structure. Adapt it to your employees, work patterns, agreements and approval process.
Free download · No registration · Starting template, not adopted policy or legal advice
What is inside?
- Policy ownership, version and review dates
- Employee scope and applicable agreements
- Annual, sick, family responsibility and parental leave
- Cycles, calculations and the meaning of balances
- Requests, evidence and decision principles
- Coverage, cancellations and documented adjustments
- Access, confidentiality, retention and escalation
Before you adopt it
Complete every bracketed field. Verify the applicable statutory position and any bargaining-council, collective or contractual rules. Obtain appropriate review, then record approval and the effective date.
Parental leave must be reviewed against the operative court order and subsequent developments. Proposed changes are not automatically the rules in force.
Read the full policy guideFrom policy to practice.
A policy defines the rule. A governed process applies it, explains the result and preserves the history.