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.
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.
A woman who claims she lost her job on the same day her dog died is calling for the right...
Parents and primary carers who suffer the loss of a child will be entitled to at least two weeks’ paid...
The Government has announced a consultation into parental bereavement leave and pay.
Bereavement leave
Bereavement leave survey 2018
Compassionate leave...
The majority of employers provide paid bereavement leave for employees who lose a loved one, family member or dependant, despite...
Following the Government’s publication of a bill that will enable employers to offer two weeks’ paid leave to parents who...
While recognising the good intentions behind the recently published Parental Leave Bill, XpertHR consultant editor Darren Newman questions the practical...
