Employment (Sick Leave — Hospitalisation) Regulations 2019

These Regulations are the Employment (Sick Leave — Hospitalisation) Regulations 2019 and come into operation on 1 April 2019.

For the purposes of section 89(3)(a) of the Act, an employee is hospitalised if the employee is warded in a hospital —

for any surgical treatment where the employee is admitted to, and discharged from, the hospital on the same day (called in this regulation day surgical treatment);

for a period of 8 hours or longer (other than for day surgical treatment); or

for a period of less than 8 hours before dying in the hospital.