New guidance: Acas updates guidance on managing bereavement in the workplace

The free updated guidance ‘Time off work for bereavement’ covers:

• Leave and pay on death.
• Death of an employee's child.
• A stillbirth or miscarriage of an employee or their partner.
• Parental bereavement leave and pay
• What to do, and how to support an employee, following a death.
• A death at work.

It includes details of the maternity and paternity leave rules for parents who have lost a pregnancy after 24 weeks, and the 2020 parental bereavement leave rules. There is also an example bereavement policy.

Operative date

• Now

Recommendation

• Download the guidance and view the example bereavement policy on the Acas website.