How long is bereavement leave in your country?

In the Netherlands, you have the legal right to

• Four days for first degree (parents, children)
• Two days for second degree (siblings, grandparents, grandchildren)
• One day for third degree (uncles ans aunts, first cousins, newphews and nieces)

Individual employers can give more of course.

It depends on your employer and whether or not they have a collective agreement (negotiated by unions), and different collective agreements give you a different number of days, but 10 seems to be a common amount. That's 10 days paid time off.

You don't have a flair, would be nice to know what country you represent.

Edit: and now there's a flair, yay!

afaik, the law doesn't specify the length of potential bereavement leave in germany. it depends on the individual employer, and on how closely related you were. you (ususally?) don't get any leave for the death of grandparents or step-parents or in-laws. you MIGHT get a day off for the funeral itself. if it's your parent, spouse or child that died, it depends on the employer, but i read that the guideline for bereavement leave is two days. (that said, i'm sure you wouldn't have a problem finding a doctor to put you on sick leave for longer.)

The legal minimum is :

• 7 to 15 days for a child

• 3 days for parents, parents in law, siblings and spouse. Nothing for step-parents.

You can have more depending on the collective agreement negociated for your field.

I really think 3 days is too short (you 4 days for your wedding, so somehow your spouse dying is less important, wtf).

I'm glad my employer will let us take all the time we need... But a lot of people are less lucky.

Depends on the specific collective agreement, as with many workers rights, there is no national law.

Typical are three days for your partner, two days for parents or siblings, one day for for more distant relative like grandparents.

But I have never heard of someone not being allowed to take more time if they need it.

I think it also depends on the employer here, but there may also be a legal right...I suppose it depends on the job, your position and your contract as well as the degree of relationship.

I got a week off (paid) when a close family member died.I think some employers wouldn't give you that much though.

I think:

• 2 days up to second degree relationships if it in the same province where you work and 4 days if it's in another province and you have to travel: (parents, children, siblings, grandparents and grandchildren)

Depends the collective labor agreement for the field you're in, but many fields have no bereavement. You can get paid leave with a doctor's note in most cases, even though mourning isn't illness. This has been criticized but nothing's done. Legally you have to be given leave when a close family member does, but there's no guideline for how long. I would guess that most people are given 1 day and get sick leave to sray home after.

I believe generally employers just give you leave for a few days pretty easily, though it may be unpaid. When I had a friend in the hospital and I got info that they might perish, my boss let me take the day off and got a temp in my place, even though it was a national holiday and getting someone to cover for me was difficult and expensive.

As far as I can tell (for England; not sure if any of the devolved nations have more time) two weeks if you're a parent of an under-18 or have a stillbirth from 24 weeks of pregnancy and are subsequently eligible for paid parental bereavement leave, and, legally, nothing for everyone else.

Legal provisions are:

• 10 days if one's spouse or child passes away
• 4 days if it parents, stepparents or parents-in-law pass away
• 1 day in the case of other relatives (2 days if they in the same household as you)

EDIT: this is what each employee is entitled to by law. In practice, if someone needs more, employers are often OK to approve days off taken from one's personal holidays, or doctors can give a note to cover days off if the person is not able to resume work because of the shock.

In Denmark there is no statutory bereavement leave; it is usually something which is negotiated on the individual workplace, and it may vary wildly from place to place, and between different groups within the same organisation, depending on their agreements.

Employees are entitled to up to 3 days of paid leave due to the death of a child or a spouse.

Employees are entitled to one day of paid leave to attend the funeral of a parent or sibling, parent or sibling of the employee’s spouse, and the spouse of an employee’s sibling, grandparents or a grandchild and an additional day if the employee is arranging the funeral of such deceased.

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