Every employee with more than 4 months service with an employer, and who works on more than 4 days a week, is entitled to 3 days paid family responsibility leave per year. This can be taken if a direct family member dies, (this includes a wife or husband or a life partner, the employee’s parent, child, adopted child, grandchild or brother or sister) or when the employee’s child is born or if the child is ill. A total of three days is allocated for this kind of leave and not three days for each event. An employee may break these days up, e.g an employee may take half a day off to attend to a child that may be sick at school. Additionally, family responsibility leave allowance lapses at the end of the financial year and is not automatically carried over.