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Chapter 3: Emergency family leave 
23.1 Domestic workers are entitled to at least five days‘ paid leave per year to attend to family 
emergencies (SD7, Clause 21). 
23.2 Where domestic workers who are migrants need to return to their home country as a result of a 
family emergency, they are entitled to at least eight days of emergency family leave. 

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Conditions of Work and Employment Series No. 27 
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Part D: Monitoring standards 
24. Record-keeping 
24.1. Each week, the domestic worker shall record the hours he or she has actually worked in a 
Weekly Hours Record (WHR) and have it signed by the employer. 
24.2. The domestic worker must be given the opportunity to view the WHR each week, whether 
separately or as part of a wage slip, in either a hardcopy or in electronic form. 
24.3. The WHR must contain as a minimum the following information: 
(a) the name and address of the employee; 
(b) the social security number or equivalent of the employee; 
(c) a brief statement of the domestic worker‘s duties; 
(d) the total number of normal hours performed by the domestic worker on each working day 
and the week as a whole; 
(e) where an hours-averaging scheme is in operation, the week of the reference period; 
(f) hours worked on weekly rest days and public holidays and the additional payments made; 
(g) any hours of overtime worked, the days on which they were performed and the overtime 
payments made; 
(h) any days or hours of leave or public holidays and payments made in respect of the leave or 
holiday periods; 
(i) any hours of night work and the additional payments made; 
(j) any periods of on-call work, including both on-call and call-out periods, and the payments 
made in respect of this work. 
24.4 A copy of all WHRs, including the current record, must be provided to the domestic worker 
and, where it exists, his or her representative organisation at the local level. 
24.5 Records must be retained by the employer for a two-year period and made available to the 
labour inspectorate and the domestic worker‘s representative organization on request. It is an 
offence to fail to keep WTRs or to fail to provide them when requested.