Leave to attend a funeral of family member

hcb42

staffie1 wrote: »

Well I'm very glad to hear that MrsE

Me too

Will you come and run my council offices?!

Dave_liverpool

Well I know someone who had 2 weeks paid leave after her Dad died and infact she was offered another week if it was needed.

Her brother got a week and had another offered, both at different companies.

nearlyrich

I took nearly three weeks off after my mum died, we had to wait a while to sort out the funeral and then sadly my FIL died the morning of the day I went back to work and he lived down south so we had to go down to arrange another funeral. I was paid for all the time off, however I have a job that involves working unsocial hours and they work on a system of give and take.

Valli

Dave_liverpool wrote: »

Well I know someone who had 2 weeks paid leave after her Dad died and infact she was offered another week if it was needed.

Her brother got a week and had another offered, both at different companies.

which just goes to prove what we've been saying - depends where, or for whom, you work .

Quite often though, a GP will write a sicknote for someone to cover just such an eventuality;) citing 'stress' or 'depression'...

SarEl

Do you know what? I was just reviewing this thread because the advice on "dependants leave" it getting just a little stretched - even if the OP could claim it (and they may have to prove the dependancy) it only allows to limited unpaid time off. And I happened to notice that the OP says his brother died in JUNE. Therefore it is all moot because the funeral has, in all probablility, come and gone. You cannot claim leave retrospectively. I think the OP is complaining in hindsight that he wasn't allowed two weeks off!

jolfc

I work in the public sector and we get 3 days compassionate leave and a day for the funeral, anymore taken would have to be unpaid leave, holiday or sick and with a doctors note after 5 days ( may be 7 days) Also for close family members those rules apply. If it is a friend etc that the funeral is for it is taken off as unpaid leave.

SarEl

jolfc wrote: »

I work in the public sector and we get 3 days compassionate leave and a day for the funeral, anymore taken would have to be unpaid leave, holiday or sick and with a doctors note after 5 days ( may be 7 days) Also for close family members those rules apply. If it is a friend etc that the funeral is for it is taken off as unpaid leave.

And this is the standard term. It is amazing how when anyone mentions that they individually get something and work in the public sector it is automatically assumed that the whole public sector get it. The same rule of thumb is never applied to the private sector, because it is never assumed that they all act in the same way. For all we know this is a single managers decision that they will allow other staff to attend a funeral with a colleague - it is certainly exceptional if it is a policy. The normal rule is up to three days for the funeral of immedate kin only.

irishjohn

miss_duke wrote: »

I am in NI, and the % of people who work in the public sector really is shocking :eek:

i worked for a while in the public sector in NI and I can confirm what Miss Duke is saying and worse.

In Northern Ireland funerals generally take place within 3 days of a person's demise. There is not the long period of waiting for a funeral as in GB. However the grief takes a lot longer to recover from for public sector employees and you would not want to know how long the average period of paid compassionate or sick leave for a bereaved employee is.

Maternity leave is similar - the poor lasses here in NI don't seem to be made of very strong stuff - in my 4 years in a public sector department, one senior manager had two periods of maternity leave, and two other members of staff also had maternity leave. I won't reveal how many of those periods of maternity leave were immediately followed by six months of sick notes for bad backs - with recovery occuring just before sick pay was reduced from full to half pay.

My own conclusions? An awful lot of people in this country find work such an inconvenience!!

Oldernotwiser

I can't understand why anyone would want to take two or three weeks off if a parent died; what would be the point?

MrsE_2

Oldernotwiser wrote: »

I can't understand why anyone would want to take two or three weeks off if a parent died; what would be the point?

One of my (public sector) colleagues recently had a day off for her fathers funeral.

I wonder how many of these people with their "stories" really do work in the public sector;)