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13/10/2017
Currently, while the government expects employers to be compassionate and flexible at a difficult time, there is no legal requirement for them to provide paid time off for grieving parents.
However, with these new proposed laws, employed parents who lose a child under the age of 18 will have the right to two weeks' paid leave to allow them time to grieve. This will honour the manifesto commitment to introduce a new entitlement for parental bereavement leave.
The Parental Bereavement (Pay and Leave) Bill, introduced by Kevin Hollinrake MP and supported by the Government, will give a day-one right to parental bereavement leave and employees with a minimum of 26 weeks' continuous service will be eligible for statutory parental bereavement pay.
Kevin Hollinrake MP, bill sponsor, explained: "Sadly I have had constituents who have gone through this dreadful experience and while some parents prefer to carry on working, others need time off.
"This new law will give employed parents a legal right to two weeks' paid leave, giving them that all-important time and space away from work to grieve at such a desperately sad time."
Margot James, Business Minister, added: "We want parents to feel properly supported by their employer when they go through the deeply distressing ordeal of losing a child.
"That's why Government is backing this bill which goes significantly further than most other countries in providing this kind of workplace right for employees."
Small employers will be able to recover all statutory parental bereavement pay while larger employers will be able to reclaim almost all of it.
Details of the proposed new law were published today, 13 October, in Parliament ahead of the bill's second reading next week, with the ambition of it becoming law in 2020.
(JP/MH)
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Bereaved Parents Could Receive New Leave Allowance
Under new proposed laws, employees who have suffered the death of a child will benefit from new paid leave allowances.Currently, while the government expects employers to be compassionate and flexible at a difficult time, there is no legal requirement for them to provide paid time off for grieving parents.
However, with these new proposed laws, employed parents who lose a child under the age of 18 will have the right to two weeks' paid leave to allow them time to grieve. This will honour the manifesto commitment to introduce a new entitlement for parental bereavement leave.
The Parental Bereavement (Pay and Leave) Bill, introduced by Kevin Hollinrake MP and supported by the Government, will give a day-one right to parental bereavement leave and employees with a minimum of 26 weeks' continuous service will be eligible for statutory parental bereavement pay.
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Kevin Hollinrake MP, bill sponsor, explained: "Sadly I have had constituents who have gone through this dreadful experience and while some parents prefer to carry on working, others need time off.
"This new law will give employed parents a legal right to two weeks' paid leave, giving them that all-important time and space away from work to grieve at such a desperately sad time."
Margot James, Business Minister, added: "We want parents to feel properly supported by their employer when they go through the deeply distressing ordeal of losing a child.
"That's why Government is backing this bill which goes significantly further than most other countries in providing this kind of workplace right for employees."
Small employers will be able to recover all statutory parental bereavement pay while larger employers will be able to reclaim almost all of it.
Details of the proposed new law were published today, 13 October, in Parliament ahead of the bill's second reading next week, with the ambition of it becoming law in 2020.
(JP/MH)
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