Problem
Which provisions apply? An employer of about 200 people in a niche financial services business approaches you for advice, about steps it can take to minimize what the employer believes to be abuse of leave by employees. For example, a number of employees take a full day's sick leave to visit a doctor or clinic just to collect medicines. Others demand extension of their annual leave when they fall sick while on vacation. In one instance an employee who was absent for 14 days on her return to work produced a medical certificate issued by a traditional healer. The certificate was in the form of an unsigned handwritten note from someone who claims in the note that he is qualified as a traditional healer. It does not bear any stamp, signature or even a date. Just before coming to you, there was yet another instance of someone who had adopted a four-year-old child demanding three months' parental leave.
On the basis of your expert knowledge of employment law, provide the employer with the following: Detailed information about employees' right to leave in the instances mentioned. Assume that the employer does not have such detailed knowledge.