bereavement
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The main statutory exception is parental bereavement leave and pay following the death of a child under 18 or a stillbirth after 24 weeks.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
In the UK, there is no general legal right to paid bereavement leave when someone close to you dies.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
Don’t expect your airline to offer a discounted bereavement fare.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 9, 2026
For many years, if you needed to take a flight due to a family member’s death or impending death, airlines would offer a discounted bereavement, or compassionate, ticket.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 9, 2026
But on the floor of White County Hospital, he screamed in some anguished and alien language of bereavement.
From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner
Their models projected that, even if all of the conflict-related deaths ceased after 2023, past bereavements would continue to impact communities and individuals until at least 2070.
From Salon ● Oct. 19, 2024
He added she had suffered family bereavements and may have carried out the frauds "to try to make herself feel better".
From BBC ● May 29, 2024
The courage of Josua Tuisova and Sam Matavesi, who have played on at this World Cup while stricken by grief after family bereavements.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 15, 2023
Total Film's Tom Dawson wrote: "Giedroyc doesn't ignore life's inevitable sadnesses - along the way there are unexpected bereavements, family rifts, unfulfilled youthful dreams… It's the uplift that sticks, though."
From BBC ● Jun. 15, 2023
One or two bereavements had recently happened in the family, so the going out of the lamp naturally led me to thoughts of death.
From Mashi and Other Stories by Rabindranath Tagore
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