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Parental bereavement leave policy

A model policy setting out employees’ entitlement to parental bereavement leave and pay, including eligibility and how requests should be managed.

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By Stephen Simpson, Brightmine Principal Editor

This model policy helps employers set out employees’ entitlement to parental bereavement leave and pay, explaining when leave can be taken and how requests should be handled sensitively and lawfully.

When to use this model parental bereavement leave policy

Use this model policy to set out employees’ entitlement to parental bereavement leave and pay, including eligibility and how leave may be taken.

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About the author

Stephen Simpson, Acting content manager - employment law and compliance at Brightmine

Stephen Simpson
Principal editor – Employment Law and Compliance, Brightmine

Stephen is a principal editor who has worked on the Brightmine employment law and leading practice resources for over 20 years. After growing up in Northern Ireland in the 1980s, he trained as a solicitor in England in the 1990s but soon moved into legal publishing. He was among the first recruits to Brightmine in the year before it was launched as XpertHR in 2002.

Stephen has worked on a wide range of employment law and leading practice resources, including overseeing the creation and expansion of the HR templates resource types (Policies and procedures, Letters and forms, and Contract clauses). He has written up over 1,000 reports on employment law cases and created practical guidance on a range of HR issues for the Commentary & insights tool. He also had a stint working on Personnel Today.

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