While there is no legal duty to do so, it is good practice for employers to offer employees compassionate leave for personal problems.
Giving employees time off to deal with a difficult personal situation can demonstrate the employer’s commitment to employees and make it an employer of choice.
Employees do have a right to take a reasonable amount of time off work in relation to their dependants in specified circumstances.
How should employers prepare for the new right to unpaid carer's leave, which comes into force in April 2024?
Researchers publish specific guidance to support NHS workers following the death of a colleague by suicide.
After an employee or colleague is bereaved, there can often be an assumption they will need access to bereavement counselling....
A host of major UK employers have signed up to an initiative to support their staff going through divorce.
Businesses...
Important Bill for retaining staff and enabling employees to care for loved ones passing second reading in the House of Commons.
Almost a quarter of workers did not get the support they needed from their employers after a bereavement, according to...
Acas has published new guidance to help employers support staff after a bereavement.
Law firm Kingsley Napley has formalised a policy that offers paid time off work to all staff affected by pregnancy loss.
As restrictions on international travel ease, Stephen Simpson highlights five potential annual leave issues that employers could face this summer...
Zurich is offering two weeks’ fully-paid emergency ‘lockdown leave’ to parents and carers affected by school closures.
The Swiss insurance...
Two weeks’ statutory paid bereavement leave should be introduced for all UK employees who lose a close relative or partner,...
The right to bereavement leave and pay should be extended to all employees experiencing a close family bereavement, not just...
An employment lawyer has warned that staff who have travelled abroad to handle a family emergency may need to take...
Employers should be updating their policies and procedures to take account of the introduction of parental bereavement leave in April....
Parents who suffer stillbirth or loss of a child will be entitled to two weeks’ leave.
