{"id":85324,"date":"2017-10-13T09:38:08","date_gmt":"2017-10-13T09:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=da5e622f4874821a18a2a28b5a63a2f6"},"modified":"2017-10-13T09:38:08","modified_gmt":"2017-10-13T09:38:08","slug":"press-release-new-leave-allowance-for-bereaved-parents-will-be-one-of-the-most-generous-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=85324","title":{"rendered":"Press release: New leave allowance for bereaved parents will be one of the most generous in the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<ul>\n<li>New laws will give employed parents two weeks\u2019 paid leave if they lose a child under 18<\/li>\n<li>The bill goes significantly further than most other countries in providing this kind of workplace right for employees<\/li>\n<li>Businesses will be able to claim back parental bereavement pay from the Government<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Employees who have suffered the death of a child will benefit from significant new paid leave allowances <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/publications.parliament.uk\/pa\/bills\/cbill\/2017-2019\/0014\/18014.pdf\">under proposed laws published today<\/a> (13 October).<\/p>\n<p>While the Government expects employers to be compassionate and flexible at such a difficult time, there is currently no legal requirement for employers to provide paid time off for grieving parents.<\/p>\n<p>But under proposed new laws, for the first time employed parents who lose a child under the age of 18 will have the right to two weeks\u2019 paid leave to allow them time to grieve. This will honour the manifesto commitment to introduce a new entitlement for parental bereavement leave.<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019 continuous service will be eligible for statutory parental bereavement pay.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Hollinrake MP, bill sponsor, said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">This new law will give employed parents a legal right to two weeks\u2019 paid leave, giving them that all-important time and space away from work to grieve at such a desperately sad time.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Margot James, Business Minister, said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>We want parents to feel properly supported by their employer when they go through the deeply distressing ordeal of losing a child.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">That\u2019s why Government is backing this bill which goes significantly further than most other countries in providing this kind of workplace right for employees.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Francine Bates, CEO of The Lullaby Trust said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>We warmly welcome this new law giving paid leave to bereaved parents. Losing a child is one of the most devastating experiences that a parent can go through and it is vitally important that they are supported by their employer and not made to return to work before they are ready.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">We know many bereaved parents who have campaigned tirelessly for paid compassionate leave after the death of a child and are very pleased to see that the UK is now leading the way in supporting parents who need time away from work to grieve for their child.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Debbie Kerslake, Chief Executive of Cruse Bereavement Care, said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Cruse Bereavement Care welcomes legislation introducing parental bereavement leave recognising that the death of a child is devastating.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">It is vital that at such a distressing time those who are bereaved can take time away from work.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Small employers will be able to recover all statutory parental bereavement pay while larger employers will be able to reclaim almost all of it.<\/p>\n<p>Details of the proposed new law were published today in Parliament ahead of the bill\u2019s second reading on 20 October, with the ambition of it becoming law in 2020.<\/p>\n<h4 id=\"notes-to-editors\">Notes to editors<\/h4>\n<ol>\n<li>Currently under the Employment Rights Act, employees have a day-one right to take a \u201creasonable\u201d amount of unpaid time off work to deal with an emergency involving a dependant, including making arrangements following the death of a dependant. What is \u201creasonable\u201d depends on the circumstances but in practice the length of time off will be agreed between the employer and their employee<\/li>\n<li>In the unlikely event that employee and employer can\u2019t agree what is \u201creasonable\u201d, this can be resolved through Acas or an employment tribunal<\/li>\n<li>Acas has also published good practice guidance for employers on managing bereavement in the workplace.<\/li>\n<li>We estimate the annual cost of statutory payments under this proposal to be between \u00a31.3m and \u00a32m<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time employed parents who lose a child under the age of 18 will have the right to two weeks\u2019 paid leave to allow them time to grieve<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85324"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}