Common use of Bereavement and Family Illness Clause in Contracts

Bereavement and Family Illness. Teachers shall be allowed five days at full pay for absence from school for each occurrence of death in the teacher's immediate family. Additional time up to five days, if requested by teacher, shall be first deducted from Personal Leave and then Sick Leave. Teachers shall be allowed three days absence for each occurrence of illness or accident that requires hospital attention of the teacher's immediate family only after all sick leave and personal leave have been used. The "immediate family" is defined as father, mother, sister, brother, spouse or domestic partner, children, grandparents, or grandchildren. This relationship may be by either affinity or consanguinity.

Bereavement and Family Illness. Teachers shall be allowed five days at full pay for absence from school for each occurrence of death in the teacher's immediate family. Additional time up to five days, if requested by teacher, shall be first deducted from Personal Leave and then Sick Leave. Teachers shall be allowed three days absence for each occurrence of illness or accident that requires hospital attention of the teacher's immediate family only after all sick leave and personal leave have been used. The "immediate family" is defined as father, mother, sister, brother, spouse or domestic partnerhusband, wife, children, grandparents, or grandchildren. This relationship may be by either affinity or consanguinity.