Do any of you have bereavement time specified in your contract, and if so how much? My own parent is very ill and dying. I gave the clients advance notice about the situation. Most were very understanding, but one parent told me that if we had a funeral on a weekend, then I should only be entitled to 2 days off, and told me I better not take a week off. I was so offended I didn't know what to say. It will be taken out of my allotted holiday time, so it's no extra time beyond the normal contract. I was previously at a child care centre where we got 3-5 business days depending on what degree of relative it was.
What do you think is fair? It can take days just to organize the funeral/paperwork/food/flowers etc, let alone time to regroup afterwards.