You are entitled to at least 10 days of paid sick leave per year. If your employment agreement provides more than 10 days, you’re entitled to the higher number.
You can take sick leave if:
you’re sick or injured, or
your spouse or partner is sick or injured, or
a person who depends on you for care is sick or injured (like your child or a relative you care for).
Your sick leave entitlement starts when you’ve been working at your job for six months.If your employer agrees, you may be able to take leave before you are entitled to it (called “taking leave in advance”). Those days will then be deducted from your sick leave entitlement when it kicks in.
If you are going to take sick leave you must tell your employer as soon as possible – for example, before you were supposed to start work or, if that’s not possible, as soon as you can.What is reasonable here will depend on the circumstances – in the case of natural disaster, what is reasonable might be less notice than you’d normally be expected to give.