Compassionate Leave

Its best to let your manager know as soon as possible, although we appreciate this may be difficult for you. Where your bereavement relates to immediate family, we'll accept someone else calling on your behalf, although we'd ask that you contact your manager yourself as soon as you feel able to do so.

You don't have to give us lots of detail about your bereavement, and it might be hard for you to know how much time you'll need, so do keep in touch with your manager.

Please let your manager know how you'd like us to keep in touch with you during your compassionate leave (i.e. by phone or email). If you can, please also let us know what you want us to tell your teammates and if they can contact you, and what help, information or support we may be able to give you.

With the exception of Parental Bereavement, there's no legal right to paid time off to deal with bereavement, but you do have a legal right to time off in the case of the death of a dependent. We know during bereavement you don't want to be worrying about work, so for immediate family, we'll allow you up to 3 days of compassionate leave with pay and for less immediate family, or dependants who aren't immediate family, we'll allow you up 1 paid day of compassionate leave.

Immediate family would be:

• Parent

• Spouse

• Child

• Sibling

Less immediate family would be:

• Grandparent

• Grandchild

A dependent could be someone else who relies on you to care for them or make care arrangements for them.

Please talk to your manager as you may be able to use some holiday, take unpaid leave or sick leave (if you don't feel well enough to attend work)

Your manager will meet with you briefly to discuss any support you may need and if you need any adjustments to your work in the short term. They'll also be able to advise you on any external support you can access.