Statutory Employment Leave For Bereaved Parents

EDM number 911 in 2013-14, proposed by Tom Harris on 06/01/2014.
Categorised under the topics of Children and families, Death, Employment and Industrial relations.

That this House believes that parents who suffer the death of a child should have the right to paid time off from their employer in order to grieve; recognises that most employers offer flexibility and support to employees in such tragic circumstances; deplores the significant number of employers who force bereaved parents to go back to work too early or take sick leave in order to grieve; congratulates the Jack's Rainbow campaign for highlighting the injustice that parents who suffer such a tragic loss have no statutory right to paid employment leave; and calls on the Government to amend the Employment Rights Act 1996 to enshrine in law the right to statutory bereavement leave for parents.

This motion has been signed by a total of 60 MPs.