BEREAVEMENT PAY Clause Examples

BEREAVEMENT PAY. 22.01 The Employer agrees that in the event of a death in the immediate family, the Employer shall grant bereavement leave of three (3) consecutive calendar days with pay. This leave includes both working and non-working days. 22.02 In Article 22.01, immediate family is deemed to mean spouse (which includes same sex partner where they have been cohabitating a minimum of six (6) months), child and stepchild, mother, father, sister, brother, grandparent, mother-in-law or father-in-law. 22.03 The Employer agrees that in the event of the death of a grandchild, aunt, uncle, brother-in-law or sister-in-law, the Employer shall grant bereavement leave of two (2) consecutive calendar days with pay. This leave includes both working and non-working days. 22.04 In the event that travel, due to reasons described in Articles 22.01 or 22.03, is required beyond a distance of three hundred and fifty (350) kilometres, the Employer will grant two (2) extra days of leave without pay. 22.05 In the event that leave pursuant to this Article falls within previously scheduled vacation, any unused vacation time shall be taken at a time mutually agreed upon by the Employer and the employee.

BEREAVEMENT PAY. In the case of a death in the immediate family of an employee, the Company will grant to the employee, two (2) days' leave of absence with pay at the employee's regular hourly rate of pay. Immediate family shall mean: Spouse, Father, Mother, Legal Guardian, Son, Daughter, Brother and Sister.

BEREAVEMENT PAY. Upon application, an employee who but for the bereavement would normally have worked will be granted leave for four (4) working days commencing with the day of death or the day immediately following the death of employee’s spouse, children or step-children and (3) three working days commencing with the day of death or the day immediately following the death of the employee’s parents, step-parents, sister, broth- er, father-in-law, mother-in-law, grandparents and grandchild. Only for the purpose of determining eligibility for bereavement leave, ‘spouse’ shall include a common law spouse or same sex-partner where the employee had, prior to the bereavement, resided with the common law spouse or same sex partner and had formally recorded with the TTC that the employee considered that person to be his/her spouse or partner. For example, the employee had named the person as a spouse or partner eligible for some benefit. The father or mother of such a common law spouse or same sex-partner shall be considered as in-laws and the children of such a person shall be considered as children of the employee for purposes of determining eligibility for bereavement leave. Employees regardless of service who have completed three consecutive months of continuous employment shall be paid at their basic rate for the normal hours of work on the day or days for which leave has been granted. A working day does not include off days, statutory or desig- nated holidays or days when the employee is absent commencing on or before the day of death due to injury, illness, vacation or leave of absence without pay. Serious consideration will be given to applications for bereavement leave which include the day of death or the funeral and/or more than three days in total, but employees will not be entitled to more days of paid bereavement leave than they are entitled to under the above terms. Upon application and approval by the Department Head, the President of the Union or designate will be permitted up to one day paid leave of absence to attend the funeral of Union members or retired Union members.

BEREAVEMENT PAY. 22.01 In the event of death in the immediate family of an employee, the employee will be granted leave of absence with pay, with consideration given to travel time for attending the funeral. The length of absence shall be up to three (3) days at the discretion of the Employer. The term ‘immediate family’ shall mean: spouse, parent, child, siblings, step-parent, step-child, step-sibling, parent-in-law, sibling-in-law, child-in-law, grandparent, grandchildren, or any relative living in the household of the employee. In the event of the demise of a parents sibling, or siblings child, an employee will be granted one (1) day leave of absence with pay to attend the funeral.

BEREAVEMENT PAY. 29.01 Subject to the following regulations, the Company will make payment of wages to an employee who is absent solely due to a death in his/her immediate family; a) Such employee must have completed sixty (60) worked days. b) Such employee except for the death and funeral would otherwise be at work. 29.02 Members of the employee's immediate family are defined for the purposes of this Agreement as: a) spouse, common law spouse, same sex partner, son, daughter, father, mother, stepmother, stepfather, stepson, stepdaughter, and; b) brother, sister, father-in-law, mother-in-law, grandson, granddaughter, stepbrother, stepsister, and; c) grandfather, grandmother, brother-in-law and sister-in-law, daughter-in-law and son-in-law. 29.03 An employee will receive payment for the time lost from his/her regularly scheduled hours on the following basis: a) Payment will be made on the basis of the employee's hourly wage rate for the employee's regularly scheduled shift up to eight (8) hours per day, exclusive of overtime and other forms of premium pay. b) Payment will be made for up to five (5) days' absence in the case of the death of a member of the employee's immediate family as defined in 29.02 a) and in such case, the time to be paid for may be any five (5) consecutive working days from the day of death through the second day after the funeral, inclusive. c) Payment will be made for up to three (3) days' absence in the case of the death of a member of the employee's immediate family as defined in 29.02 b) and in such case, the time to be paid for may be any three (3) consecutive working days from the day of death through the day after the funeral inclusive. d) Payment will be made for one (1) day's absence to attend the funeral, in the case of the death of a member of the employee's immediate family as defined in 29.02 c). e) When requested by the Company, the employee will furnish satisfactory proof of death of the member of his/her immediate family. 29.04 In the event that bereavement occurs during an employee’s scheduled vacation, the vacation will be rescheduled to a time mutually agreeable to the employee and Company. 29.05 An employee will not be eligible to receive payments under this Agreement for any period in which he/she is receiving other payments in the form of vacation pay, specified holiday pay, disability benefit, or Workplace Safety & Insurance Board (WSIB) benefit.

BEREAVEMENT PAY. If a death occurs in the immediate family of an employee, the Company will grant paid leaves of absence as follows: 3 days if employee attends funeral of parents, parents-in-law, wife, husband and children.

BEREAVEMENT PAY. The Employer shall grant employees bereavement leave in accordance with the Employer’s policy for such leaves in existence at the time the leave is requested and as applicable to a majority of the Employer’s employees who are not in a bargaining unit.

BEREAVEMENT PAY. An employee will be granted a five (5) day leave of absence with pay, at their regular straight time hourly rate, to make arrangements for and to attend the funeral of the employee's spouse (including common-law), or children. Further time off without pay may be taken by mutual agreement between the employee and the Employer.

BEREAVEMENT PAY. In the event of a death in the immediate family (father, mother, spouse, son, daughter, sister, brother, grandparents, grandchildren, step-parents, mother-in- law, father-in-law, brother-in-law, sister-in-law) an employee will be given the necessary time off to attend the funeral and will be paid three (3) days pay (hourly rated employees are to receive eight (8) hours pay per day) at the regular rate of pay providing that the period between the day of the death and the funeral are working days. If more time is required for any reason relating to the death, a leave of absence will be granted.