Grief and bereavement leave are complex issues for many employers. Your policy may provide only three to five days of leave, while the fallout from the death of a loved one can rarely be encapsulated in such a relatively short time frame. In addition, even before the death occurred, you may have been dealing with substantive leave issues caused by illness, injury, or other circumstances and struggling to fill the missing employee’s role. And in worst-case scenarios, you may have had to confront an individual for abusing the system by reporting the same relative died multiple times.
