Dads Funeral (work question)

silkyuk9

hi there.

its my dads funeral next tuesday, i have no problems with getting time off work, however, my wife has asked for time off and her manager has told her that she is not entitled to 'free' time off, so she has to take a days annual leave.

we both work for the NHS, can some one clarify the rules for this kind of thing.

thanks very much

tanith

I think that probably about right as she is not either an immediate relative or in charge of arranging the funeral.. but my guess is its discretionary so her manager is excercising his right and sticking to his usual practice in this situation.. might be worth pressing the issue but no guarantee that he will give way..

I did find this....

A: There is no legislation to allow staff time off to attend a funeral. However, if you refused to allow staff to book a holiday or take unpaid leave (if holidays have already been taken) this could be deemed unreasonable. As a side issue employees are allowed unpaid leave to deal with a family emergency which would cover if they were the relative charged with dealing with a death and the arrangements of a funeral.

chuckley

y is taking a days holiday for it a problem? (unless she has no days left?!)

i think compassionate leave is dependent on the boss...

vic1

if you both work for the nhs why not go to the human resources department and ask there should be a written policy which sets it out but i would have thought that your partner could have time off on the basis of being there for you ie family reasons. hope you can find an amicable soloution at this sad time

LittleVoice

Do you both work for the same organisation within the NHS?

SomeBozo

There is no obligation to give paid time off for a funeral on a employer.

However under Agenda for Change the NHS can (at managers discretion) give time off to attend a funeral of a close family member or freind.

However this is at managers discretion and can be either paid or unpaid (at managers discretion).

If an employee wants to be paid, they need to take it as annual leave.

Bozo

silkyuk9

SomeBozo wrote: »

There is no obligation to give paid time off for a funeral on a employer.

However under Agenda for Change the NHS can (at managers discretion) give time off to attend a funeral of a close family member or freind.

However this is at managers discretion and can be either paid or unpaid (at managers discretion).

If an employee wants to be paid, they need to take it as annual leave.

Bozo

thanks for your replies.


firstly, reply from above thead, we both work in same hospital but not same department.

now, i agree with the quoted thread, im sure this would be the case. my misses has a great sickness record, never swings the lead, and has hardly any sick leave in the years she has worked there.

I know my bit is different because its my dad and im entitled to the time off, but, my dad died on the friday, and it was my weekend off, so i went back to work monday, im sure i was entitle to more time off, but, i needed to go to work for myslf, and i did not want to put my work mates out, there was nothing more i could do at that timr, so rather than just sitting at home getting 'free' leave i went to work.

I find in our case im the only child, if you like near my parents, the rest of the family live away, so the funeral arrangements and the sorting things out for my mum was left to me and my wife, there is a fair ammount to sort out, as some of you will quite rightly know.

im sure a good manager would let staff have this disgressionery leave if their staff played by the rules at work, lets face it my wife could have gone on the sick for what ever reason, and been paid in full for 7 days without a doctors sick note, but we dont we play by the rules.

At the end of the day i wrote this thread before we decided to ask the union, just to see what others thought, its best to ask before you jump in and make enemies!!