Bereavement Leave

Sweet Home Personnel Policy

              e) Bereavement Leave 

Employees who have worked for City for 180 calendar days, and averaged at least 25 hours per week, may take up to two weeks of bereavement leave including 3 days off with pay per death of a family member. Bereavement leave may be used to attend the funeral or alternative to a funeral of the family member, and/or to make arrangements necessitated by the death of the family member. The two weeks of bereavement leave must be taken in the 60-day period following notice of death of a family member and will be deducted from the employee’s available leave time under OFLA. For purposes of this policy, “Family Member” is defined to include the employee’s spouse, same-sex domestic partner (registered), child, parent, parent-in-law, grandparent, or grandchild, or the same relations of an employee's same-sex domestic partner (registered) or spouse.
Employees who wish to take bereavement leave must inform the City as soon as possible after receiving notification of a Family Member’s death. Although prior notice is not required, oral notice must be provided within 24 hours of beginning leave. Written notice must be provided to the employer within three days of returning to work. Employees are required to use any available sick leave during the period of bereavement leave; vacation time will be used if the employee has no available sick leave.

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