I urge all members to read the below extract from our current EBA 2019 and understand your access to TRAUMA LEAVE. This is an important matter concerning your emotional and/or physical state if you are involved in a workplace or network incident.
41. Trauma Leave
41.1 Employees who are involved in workplace or network incident resulting in a fatality or critical injury to a passenger, pedestrian or driver and/or passenger of another vehicle, an assault or threatened assault, witnessing a serious near miss incident; and any
other circumstance where Yarra Trams managers are concerned that an employees emotional state would impact on their ability to perform their work in a safe manner can access up to two days of trauma leave in accordance with the Yarra Trams Trauma Leave Policy (h017pl3894).
41.2 In addition to the two days trauma leave, the accountable manager may at his or her discretion on the day of the trauma event relieve the employee from their normal duties where the manager is of a view that the individual’s emotional and/or physical state would negatively impact on their ability to perform their work in a safe manner.
41.3 This policy applies to all Yarra Trams employees, who through the course of employment are directly involved in a work incident to the extent that it would be
reasonable to anticipate that they would be impaired in the performance of their work to such an extent that they would be at risk of injuring themselves or others.
Please contact me or my proxy Heivaha Ayeni if you have any clarifications.