B ereavement Leave. When an employee is absent from work due to a death in the employee’s immediate family, the Board will pay the employee the regular rate of pay up to a total of five (5) consecutive days. The employee may choose to use three (3) days at the time of the funeral and two (2) days later for settlement of the estate, if necessary. The immediate family shall be construed to mean the employee’s spouse, child, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, parent, father-in-law, mother-in-law, brother, sister, brother-in-law, sister-in-law, grandparents, grandchildren and any other member of the immediate household. With permission of the Superintendent, a day may be granted at any time for attending the funeral of a close friend or distant relative. In the event of the death of any employee or student in the Mid-Prairie School District, the principal or any supervisor of that employee or student shall grant to an appropriate number of employees sufficient time to attend the funeral.
B ereavement Leave. The District shall grant time off and shall pay an employee up to two regular shifts (i.e. forty-eight (48) hours for firefighters, or two eight (8) hour days for 40-hour/week employees) due to the death of an employee’s immediate family member, spouse, or registered domestic partner. If a 40-hour/week employee must travel more than three hundred and fifty (350) miles to attend funeral or memorial services, the District shall grant the 40-hour/week employee one (1) additional day off (for a total of three (3) paid days off), subject to distance verification. An employee may be authorized to use other accruals such as sick leave or vacation leave in conjunction with District-paid bereavement leave at the discretion of the appointing authority. Bereavement leave is not accruable, and does not roll over from year to year.
B ereavement Leave. An employee shall be granted up to three (3) continuous or non-continuous days of bereavement leave, as requested by the employee, for each death of a family member. Bereavement leave beyond three (3) days may be approved based on individual circumstances, such as relationship of the employee to the deceased family member, employee responsibility for making funeral arrangements, religious reasons and/or distance of travel out of the area. Upon the Employer’s approval, the employee may choose to use the following types of leave for beyond the three (3) days: sick, vacation, comp time, or leave without pay. Family members includes biological, adoptive, de facto, or xxxxxx parent, stepparent, or legal guardian of an employee or the employee’s spouse or domestic partner, or a person who stood in loco parentis when the employee was a minor child; sibling, spouse, domestic partner, grandparent, grandchild, or child, regardless of age or dependency status, including a biological, adopted or xxxxxx child, stepchild, or a child to whom the employee stands in loco parentis, is a legal guardian, or is a de facto parent. Family members include those persons in a “step” relationship.
B ereavement Leave. 1. In the case of death in the immediate family, the teacher shall be allowed leave with full compensation for up to six nonconsecutive contract days for grieving and attendance at services which may occur at a later date.
B ereavement Leave. Up to three (3) days of consecutive days of paid bereavement leave (prorated for part- time employees) in lieu of regularly scheduled work days shall be allowed for a death in the immediate family. An additional two (2) days of bereavement leave (for a total of five (5) consecutive days of paid bereavement leave) may be granted where extensive travel is required to attend the funeral. Proof of extensive travel may be required. Employees may be required to provide documentation as is reasonably necessary to substantiate the need for bereavement leave. Immediate family shall be defined as grandparent, parent, wife, husband, brother, sister, child or grandchild, son and daughter-in-law, mother-in-law or father-in-law and domestic partner and immediate family. Employees may request bereavement leave as non-consecutive days off within a fourteen (14) day period of the death. Employees may request additional time off as annual leave if available, or unpaid leave to the extent accrued annual leave is insufficient. Such requests are subject to the Employer’s customary approach regarding approval or denial of annual leave requests.
B ereavement Leave. Professional employees shall be allowed a leave of absence with full pay, of appropriate length as determined by the building administrator when such absence is due to the death of the employee's (or spouse's) family. The building administrator shall determine the duration of the employee's period of paid Bereavement Leave.
B ereavement Leave. (a) Where a member of a permanent employee’s immediate family dies, or a permanent employee’s xxxxxx child dies, the employee shall be entitled to leave with pay for a period of up to eight (8) days.
B ereavement Leave. A fully benefited employee may use up to a total of forty (40) hours of paid administrative leave per occurrence in the event of death in the employee’s immediate family. It is expected that such leave will be taken during or within sixty (60) days of death, or longer with Human Resources Director, or designee, review and approval.
B ereavement Leave. (a) In the event of the death of an immediate family member of an employee, the employee must notify the Employer of the death as soon as possible. An employee who so notifies the Employer will be granted up to 3 consecutive scheduled working days off, without loss of her regular pay for her scheduled hours, commencing the day following the death in order to make arrangements for or attend the funeral or grieve. The term “immediate family” in this paragraph means the employee’s spouse, common law partner, same sex partner, child, step-child, grandchild, step- grandchild, parent, step parent, legal guardian, father-in-law, mother-in- law, siblings, brother-in-law, sister-in-law, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, grandparent or any other relative permanently residing in the employee’s household or with whom the employee permanently resides.
B ereavement Leave. A seniority employee shall be allowed up to seven (7) consecutive calendar days, without pay for scheduled work time, to attend the funeral or funeral-related activities for the death in the close family. Close family is defined as follows: the employee’s mother or father, wife or husband, son, daughter, a member of the employee's household, mother or father of present spouse and the employee’s brother, sister, grandparent, grandchild, step- grandparents, step-parents, or step-children. Additional funeral leave above and beyond that set forth above may be granted at the discretion of the Fire Chief or his/her designee.
