if a family member has died am i entitled to any pay from my employee?

Question

a friend at work s sister sadly passed away last night and he wants to no if he is entitled to any pay on the day of the funeral

Answer 1

That's totally up to the employer. Many will pay bereavement leave, but there's generally no legal requirement for them to do so.

Answer 2

No, an employer is not legally required to pay for compassionate leave - it is down to the individual company and what is included in the statement of employment terms.

A lot of companies will pay compassionate leave, especially just for a day - but I guess this depends on a variety of factors, including how long you've worked for the company, how loyal the employee is, etc - its at their discretion.

An employer would however find it difficult to refuse the time off, even it an employee has to take it as unpaid, as this would be seen as unreasonable.

Answer 3

Thats depends on your company's bereavement leave policies, sometimes you are entitled to pay when an immediate family member dies. However, the policy will specifically detail how close of a relative it must be, how many paid days off you may take, and/or how many unpaid days off you may take, and any type of compensation/benefits.

Legally speaking however a company is not required to pay an employee for bereavement leave ... in fact, in many places they aren't even required to give you bereavement leave (most do anyways because its just the moral thing to do).

Answer 4

Benefits are always up to the employer. Some employers provide funeral pay for the day of the funeral for an immediate family member IF a death certificate is provided. Some don't require a death certificate. Some will give a week's pay. Some won't pay anything. There's no law requiring it.

Answer 5

Photographs taken before 1923 are in the public domain, so you should be able to get a copy. I'd try a different Walmart or another place that makes copies. But just so you understand... professional photographers make their living by taking and selling photographs. Customers have the option of buying as many or as few copies as they want; and the more they buy, of course, the more money the photographer earns. If every customer bought one 5x7 from the photographer, and then took it to Walmart and made a dozen more copies, the photographer wouldn't be getting that money, and he couldn't make a living. That's why copyright laws exist, to protect the photographer's abilitiy to make a profit from his trade. Even if the photographer has long since passed away, he may have transferred his copyright to his children so they can continue to earn money from his work. So you see, it doesn't matter who is in the photo, or who has a copy; it matters who took it, as they own the copyright. Stores like Walmart have been sued for breaking copyright laws, so they teach their employees to be very careful about reproducing works that might be copyrighted. But since most employees aren't experts in copyright law or in dating antique photographs, they don't always know what is copyrighted and what is not. As the wife of a photographer, it's comforting to know that copyright laws are being upheld. But as a genealogist who has copied hundreds of old family photos, I also understand how frustrating it is when I'm told I can't copy a non-copyrighted picture! :)

Answer 6

Some employers will grant a paid day off for an employee that is attending a family funeral, but there is no particular requirement in the law.

Answer 7

l was quite shocked to find out that you do get compassionate leave but you dont get paid for it!

this is tesco by the way. a company that l would not recommend anyone work for, you are just a number not a person in there eyes. that is in my experience anyway!

some companies will pay. l recently went to a funeral and l got paid for the day that l had off!

Answer 8

It's generally left up to company policy. Some companies pay and some don't. Usually it has to be close family like a parent or in this case a sibling to even be allowed the time off - paid or unpaid.

Answer 9

Employees shouldn't be paying their employers anything.

Most companies would grant compasionate leave, but it is not a legal right. It is however not against the law for an employer to allow compassionate leave, contrary to one of the answers above saying it isn't legal.

Answer 10

In America- that is up to the employer.
If it is the employers policy to offer paid time off for bereavement- then your friend will be paid.
There are no laws guaranteeing paid time off only unpaid leave under FMLA guidelines.