Tommy Tainant
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Any employment benefit is a tax on companies to do business. This sort of thing is something that your union would have negotiated when they had powers. Nowadays the corporations hold sway and employees benefits are being squeezed.Well I dont see the connection between a dead dog and a dead child.Bereaved parents to be entitled to two weeks' paid leave from work
Working parents who suffer the loss of a child will now be entitled to two weeks of statutory paid leave, the government has announced.
Ministers have said the new legal right, known as Jack’s law, is the most generous parental bereavement pay offer in the world and will support 10,000 families a year in the UK.
Expected to come into force from April, it will cover all working parents who lose a child under the age of 18 or have a stillbirth, irrespective of how long an individual has been with their current employer.
I would think that the more advanced employers would offer this anyway.
I have no idea how I would cope in this situation but I dont think work would be uppermost in my thoughts. Should other measures be added to this ?
Good for old England.. Keep up the great work...
I've got to tell ya tho -- from sad personal experiences, that where you NEED "grievance pay" is losing a spouse or a parent.. Because it's ridiculously easy to bury and mourn a child compared to the LOSS of support from a spouse OR the govt/corporate hassles of handling estate matters, relocating and caring for a surviving parent.. This process approaches a FULL TIME JOB for MONTHS....
So expect ye Jolly Olde Taxes to go up, excuses to made and some embarrassment as your lemming leadership figures out they've open another hole in hull of the HMS Progressive.. And soon any citizen with a dead pet is included...
But this is not paid for by taxation so I think you might be confused. Going back 10 years or so my last employer gave me a weeks bereavement leave in my contract. This is ensuring that all employees enjoy the same treatment.
It's essentially a tax on companies to do business.. It comes out of the GDP and economic growth..
And I'm sorry to compare dead pets to children, but the slippery slope is already greased.. The more important point I made was that MONTHS of handling REAL LIFE financial and personal dislocations for the death of a spouse or parent FAR EXCEEDS the strain of losing a child or a pet...
I take your point about bereavement in general though. Its an awful time and maybe this should cover more family members.