Sue Shellenbarger
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first heard Oct 2019
last heard Oct 2019
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WSJ Your Money Briefing · Companies Re-Evaluating Their Bereavement Leave Policies · 30 Oct 2019
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Nine out of 10 employers have bereavement policies, but they are all over the map in terms of what's offered.
And the difficulty is that many of them only offer two or three days off, up to five off for an immediate family member.
And it really isn't long enough in many cases.
It's difficult for employers too.
It's a very complex area.
When you think about a loss in the family can be anything from your elderly aunt for whose funeral you only have to travel a few miles to your parent whose affairs you have to settle.
You have to set up the funeral and a memorial service, the obituary.
It's a very complicated area.
employers are really looking over these policies and trying to figure out what is the best way to handle it.
Many policies are simply say two days for extended family, five days for immediate family.
It really behooves you to talk to your manager if you've got a special situation, such as a funeral in a different distant state.
It may take two days just to get there and two days to get back, leaving really no time to be with your loved ones and to actually grieve.
It's really excruciating.
As a former manager myself, I know it can be very difficult if your policy only covers certain defined roles.
And perhaps you have someone on your staff who has a domestic partner or a dear friend or the neighbor next door who raised them.
It's really good for an employer to leave a little wiggle room so that they can take case-by-case consideration.
A few employers are even changing their policies to leave it up to the employee to decide whether
what kind of family member or relationship should qualify for bereavement leave in the event of a death.
Yeah, the boss doesn't have to decide if your brother-in-law is more important than your romantic partner, for example.
So yes, it takes all of that responsibility off the shoulders of the company.
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