Bereavement Leave Clause Samples

Bereavement Leave. All full-time employees other than temporary and provisional employees shall be granted bereavement leave with pay for not more than three (3) work days upon the occasion of the death of a close relative. When additional time is desired, employees may be allowed to take accumulated vacation or management leave as approved by their Department Director or designee. For the purpose of this Section, a close relative is defined as any relation of the employee, by blood or marriage, including registered domestic spouses in accordance with Section 297.5 of the Family Code, where one or more of the following conditions are present: A. The employee will be attending the funeral of the deceased. B. The employee is responsible for or involved with funeral arrangements and/or estate settlement for the deceased. C. The employee's relationship with the deceased was of a close and personal nature such that time is required by the employee to deal with their bereavement or to participate in memorial services, either religious or non-sectarian. When requesting such leave, the employee will be required to certify to the Department Director or designee the conditions for granting bereavement leave have been satisfied. Upon presentation of such a request, the Department Director or designee shall determine whether leave shall be granted and in what amount. Additional bereavement leave of two (2) work days for travel purposes not to exceed a total of five (5) work days may be granted by the Department Director or designee when circumstances warrant the same. Part-time employees who work a continuous schedule of twenty (20) or more hours per week shall be granted bereavement leave with pay as necessary on the same basis as full-time employees, except that they shall be compensated at the rate of one-half (1/2) of the bereavement leave allowance provided to full-time employees. All regular, full-time employees may take up to one (1) day off with pay to attend the funeral of a non-family member. Part-time employees who work a continuous schedule of twenty (20) or more hours per week may be granted this leave as necessary on the same basis as full-time employees except that they shall be compensated at the rate of one-half (1/2) day. The City’s determination regarding whether or not to approve a request for one (1) day of leave to attend the funeral of a non-family member shall not be subject to the Dispute Resolution Procedure of this agreement.

Bereavement Leave. Immediate Family is defined in Article 4.07 and repeated here for convenience: includes the Nurse’s father, mother, step-mother, step-father, guardian, brother, sister, step-brother, step-sister, spouse, child, father-in-law, mother-in-law, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, step child, or ▇▇▇▇ of the Nurse, grandparent, step-grandparent or grandchild or step-grandchild of the Nurse and a relative permanently residing in the Nurse’s household or with whom the Nurse permanently resides. The “in-law” and “step-relative” relationships referred to in this provision will only be considered “immediate family” in cases where it is a current relationship at the time of the benefit is claimed. (a) If a death occurs in the Nurse’s Immediate Family on a day when the Nurse is at work or scheduled to work, then said Nurse shall be granted bereavement leave with pay for her or his scheduled shift or the remainder of the scheduled shift. (b) The Full-Time Nurse shall also be granted seven (7) calendar days leave of absence effective midnight following the death and shall be paid for all shifts the Nurse is scheduled to work during the seven (7) calendar day period. In any event, the Nurse shall be entitled to thirty seven and one- half (37.5) consecutive hours paid leave even if this extends past the seven (7) calendar days leave. (c) A Part-Time Nurse who has a death in her or his immediate family shall receive seven (7) calendar days leave pursuant to Article 9.04, however, the minimum hours of paid leave shall be pro-rated based on the Part- Time Nurse’s regular hours paid in the previous fiscal year of the Employer or their current appointment status, whichever is greater. Part- Time Nurses in their first year of employment shall have the minimum hours of paid leave pro-rated on their appointment status as a percentage of equivalent full-time hours. All other bereavement leaves pursuant to Article 9.04 shall not be pro-rated. (d) Every Nurse shall be entitled to leave with pay up to a maximum of one (1) day in the event of death of the Nurse’s brother-in-law or sister-in-law, and may be granted up to two (2) days for travel for purposes of attending the funeral and shall be paid for those travel days which are not regularly scheduled days of rest. (e) Every Nurse shall be entitled to one (1) day leave without pay, for the purpose of attending the funeral of a Nurse’s aunt or uncle, niece or nephew, or the grandparents of the spouse of the Nurse. (f) The above entitlements ...

Bereavement Leave. (a) Upon the death of an employee's spouse, spouse to include same sex partner, child or stepchild, an employee shall be granted leave up to a maximum of five (5) continuous calendar days without loss of pay. One of the days of leave shall include the day of the funeral or equivalent service. Additional days off with or without pay may be granted by the Employer. Part-time employees will be credited with seniority and service for all such leave. (b) When a death occurs in the immediate family of an employee, the employee shall be granted leave up to a maximum of three (3) continuous calendar days without loss of pay around the date of the funeral or equivalent service provided that the employee must be regularly scheduled to work such days to receive pay. (c) Immediate family shall be defined as parent, father-in-law, mother-in-law, brother, sister, brother-in-law, sister-in-law, daughter-in-law, son-in-law, legal guardian, grandmother, grandfather and grandchildren. (d) An employee shall be granted one (1) day bereavement leave without loss of pay to attend the funeral, or if there is no funeral, an equivalent service for his or her aunt or uncle, niece or nephew. Where there is a funeral but the employee cannot attend by reason of religion or other protected grounds under the Ontario Human Rights Code, the employee shall be granted one (1) day bereavement leave without loss of pay to attend an equivalent service within a week following the funeral. (e) An employee will not be eligible to receive payment for any period in which she is receiving any other payments. For example, holiday pay or sick pay. (f) Where it is necessary, with as much notice as possible, the employee may apply for personal leave of absence in addition to bereavement leave. Permission for such leave shall not be unreasonably withheld.

Bereavement Leave. Any employee who notifies the Hospital as soon as possible following bereavement will be granted bereavement leave for four (4) consecutive working days off without loss of regular pay from regularly scheduled hours in conjunction with the death of the spouse, child, or parent. Any employee who notifies the Hospital as soon as possible following a bereavement will be granted bereavement leave for three (3) consecutive working days off without loss of regular pay from regularly scheduled hours in conjunction with the death of the sister, brother, mother-in-law, father-in-law, son- in-law, daughter-in-law, grandparent, grandchild, brother-in-law, sister-in-law or grandparent of spouse. An employee shall be granted one (1) day bereavement leave without loss of regular pay from regularly scheduled hours to attend the funeral of his or her aunt or uncle, niece or nephew. The Hospital, in its discretion, may extend such leave with or without pay. Where an employee does not qualify under the above-noted conditions, the Hospital may, nonetheless, grant a paid bereavement leave. For the purpose of bereavement leave, the relationships specified in the preceding clause are deemed to include a common-law spouse and a partner of the same sex.

Bereavement Leave. 26.1 The Company, upon being notified of a death in the Employee’s immediate family, will grant a leave of absence of up to three (3) days leave to be taken within seven (7) days of the death, upon receipt of a signed declaration. If one or more of the said three 26.2 For purposes of bereavement leave, "immediate family" means the Employee’s spouse, children, ▇▇▇▇▇▇ child, mother, step-mother, father, step-father, ▇▇▇▇▇▇ parent, brother, step-brother, sister, step-sister, mother and father-in-law, brother-in-law and sister-in-law, grandparents, step-grandparents, grandchildren and step-grandchildren of the Employee (as provided in the Employment Standards Act) and any relative permanently residing in the Employee’s household with whom the Employee permanently resides. 26.3 Pay for bereavement leave shall be at the Employee’s regular rate. (a) Where by reason of bereavement leave an Employee is to travel to and from the site and where space is available on scheduled Company transportation, the Employee may travel on such transportation at no cost to the Employee. (b) Furthermore, when space is not available on scheduled Company transportation, the Company upon being requested to do so shall make reasonable efforts to arrange transportation for the Employee from the mine site to Thunder Bay at no cost to the Employee. 26.5 Should an employee be on scheduled vacation at the time of the bereavement then the affected employee will be entitled to bereavement leave in accordance with article

Bereavement Leave. A nurse who notifies the Hospital as soon as possible following a bereavement shall be granted three (3) consecutive working days off without loss of regular pay for scheduled hours, in conjunction with the day of the funeral of a member of her or his immediate family. "Immediate family" means parent, brother, sister, spouse, son, daughter, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, mother-in-law, father-in-law, brother-in-law, sister-in-law, grandparent, grandparent of spouse or grandchild. A nurse shall be granted one (1) day bereavement leave without loss of regular earnings to attend the funeral of, or a memorial service (or equivalent) for her or his aunt, uncle, niece or nephew. "

Bereavement Leave. 1. Five (5) days of paid leave shall be granted in each case of death of a member of the employee’s immediate family. [See also Article G.

Bereavement Leave. Section 1. In the event of death in the immediate family of an employee who is otherwise assigned to duty, the employee shall be granted time off with pay as follows: A. Employees working Fire Suppression, Communications and EMS employees working forty- two (42) hour work week shall be granted two (2) shifts off following the death. Unless exclusive permission is received from the Fire Chief, the working days as outlined by this Section shall be taken within fourteen (14) calendar days from the date of the death of the family member. Such permission shall not be unreasonably withheld. B. Other employees shall be granted four (4) working days off following the death. Unless exclusive permission is received from the Fire Chief, the working days as outlined by this Section shall be taken within fourteen (14) calendar days from the date of the death of the family member. Such permission shall not be unreasonably withheld. C. In conformity with the current practice, employees who experience a family emergency shall be placed on FMLA upon compliance with the statutory requirements, until such time the employee indicates that the family member dies. At such time the employee is placed on bereavement leave. The immediate family shall be defined as the employee's mother, father, legal spouse, child, brother, sister, half-siblings, grandmother, grandfather, mother-in-law, and father-in-law, spouse’s grandparents, grandchildren, step-parent, step-children or other members of the immediate household. Section 2. Employees in the Firefighting Division may use one (1) shift of Bereavement Leave without loss of F.L.S.A. overtime. However, employees who use their second bereavement leave shift shall lose F.L.S.A. overtime for both bereavement leave shifts. In the event a Fire Fighter uses bereavement leave on more than three (3) occasions in any one year, F.L.S.A. overtime shall be lost for such leave and each occasion thereafter. Section 3. In the event an employee is on military leave during the occurrence of a death in the immediate family and, as a result, is required by the military to make up the time taken off from military leave, s/he shall be entitled to bereavement leave as provided in this Article. Section 4. The Chief shall have discretion in cases that are found to be fraudulent requests or use of bereavement leave to deny any employee such bereavement leave provided, however, that such denial shall be subject to the grievance and arbitration procedures of thi...

Bereavement Leave. An employee will be entitled to five (5) days leave with no loss of pay and benefits in the case of the death of a family member and upon notification to the employer. The Employer may grant additional leave with pay.