Company-wide policy:

If an employee suffers the death of an immediate family member, you are entitled to take up to three days off work; this leave will be unpaid. Immediate family members include a spouse, same-sex spouse, domestic partner, sibling, grandparent, aunt, uncle, child, or parent of the employee or spouse/partner. Play-Well will consider, on a case-by-case basis, requests for bereavement leave for the death of someone who does not qualify as an immediate family member under this policy. We reserve the right to request any appropriate documentation, such as an obituary.

State specific policies:

California employees are allowed to take up to five days of unpaid bereavement leave upon the death of a family member (same definition as above). According to the law AB 1949, a CA employee may also use other available paid time off such as vacation pay or sick leave during their leave.

• Bereavement leave must be completed within three months of the death of the family member.
• Bereavement leave can be used intermittently (for example two days can be taken off to handle immediate affairs and then perhaps a month later three more days are taken to attend a celebration of life service).
• Bereavement leave is only available to employees who have worked for the employer for at least 30 days prior to the commencement of the leave.

Illinois employees under the Family Bereavement Leave Act, a covered employer must provide an eligible employee with up to two weeks of unpaid bereavement leave for the death of a covered family member or a loss related to pregnancy, adoption, surrogacy, or fertility.

Maryland employees can apply to the state FMLA program which allows an employee to use leave with pay for bereavement.

Oregon employees can take up to two weeks per family member, in a one year time period (to be taken within 60 days of notification of the death) to deal with the death of a family member by: attending the funeral or alternative to a funeral, making arrangements necessitated by the death, or grieving.

Washington employees can apply through the Paid Family Medical Leave (“PFML”) program when a newborn or newly adopted/fostered child dies, employees who would have qualified for either medical or family leave for birth or adoption/placement of that child are entitled to PFML leave for the seven (7) calendar days immediately following the child’s death.