- The amount of bereavement leave related to the death of an immediate family of an employee’s spouse shall be the same for the immediate family of a registered domestic partner.
- Permanent or probationary employees, and non-permanent employees who have been employed for at least 30 days, may take up to five (5) days of unpaid bereavement leave for the death of a spouse/ domestic partner, child, parent, stepparent, sibling, grandparent, grandchild, or parent-in-law. Such bereavement leave shall be authorized for up to five (5) days per occurrence. Such bereavement leave shall qualify with pay for specific occurrences pursuant to subsections C below.
The employee may elect to use their accrued annual leave, vacation, sick, CTO, or any other earned leave credits for any unpaid days of leave which do not qualify with pay pursuant to subsections C below.
- A department head or designee shall authorize bereavement leave with pay for a permanent or probationary full-time State employee, regardless of their time of service, due to the death of the employee’s parent, stepparent, spouse, domestic partner (as defined in accordance with Family Code section 297), child, grandchild, grandparent, sibling, stepchild, parent-in-law, child-in-law, sibling-
in-law, or death of any person residing in the household of the employee at the time of death. An intervening period of absence for medical reasons shall not be disqualifying when, immediately prior to the absence, the person resided in the household of the employee. Such bereavement leave shall be authorized for up to three (3) eight-hour days (24 hours) per occurrence.
- A department head or designee shall authorize bereavement leave with pay for a permanent full- time or probationary full-time employee, regardless of their time of service, due to the death of the employee’s aunt, uncle, (parent’s sibling), niece, nephew (parent’s sibling’s child. Such bereavement leave shall be authorized for up to three (3) eight-hour days (24 hours) in a fiscal year.
If the death of a person as described above requires the employee to travel over four hundred (400) miles one way from the employee’s home, additional time off with pay shall be granted for two (2) additional days which shall be deducted from accrued leave. Should additional leave be necessary, the department head or designee may authorize the use of other existing leave credits or authorized leave without pay. Any such request shall not be arbitrarily or unreasonably denied.
- The bereavement leave days outlined in Sections B, C, and D do not need to be taken consecutively, but must be requested within three (3) months of the date of death. The employee shall give notice to the employee’s immediate supervisor as soon as possible and shall, if requested by the employee’s supervisor, provide substantiation to support the request. Substantiation includes, but is not limited to, a death certificate, published obituary, written verification of death, burial, or memorial from a mortuary, funeral home, burial society, crematorium, religious institution, or governmental agency.
- Employees may utilize the employee’s annual leave, vacation, CTO, or any other earned leave credits for additional time required in excess of time allowed above. Sick leave may be utilized for Bereavement Leave in accordance with the sick leave provision of this Contract in section 8.2. Any such request shall not be arbitrarily or unreasonably denied.
- Fractional time base (part-time) employees will be eligible for bereavement leave on a pro rata basis, based on the employees’ fractional time base (See schedule in section 7.1 (L)).
