bereavement leave

Your organization is a manufacturing company with employees in the following jurisdictions:
•    Manitoba
•    Nova Scotia
•    Newfoundland and Labrador
The organization is planning to implement a company-wide policy with respect to bereavement leave that provides the same benefits to all employees, regardless of their province/territory of employment or their length of employment. As Payroll Supervisor, prepare a memo to JoAnn Martin, the Human Resources Manager, that responds to the following two points.
•    Identify four specific items relating to bereavement leave that will have to be addressed in the policy to ensure compliance with the employment/labour standards in each jurisdiction.
•    Provide your recommendations to Ms. Martin on how to address each of these items in the policy to provide the employees with the best benefit, while keeping the cost to the organization at a minimum. Please explain your reasoning.
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Prepare your response (250 – 400 words) in memo format with correct spelling, grammar and punctuation. You will be penalized if you are excessively over or under the suggested word count. Your response to this question must be stated in your own words and should be based on the course material, your experiences, knowledge gained through the course and at least one government resource. It is recommended that you prepare your response using MS Word or a similar word processing software and save the file in a RTF format as it will be sent as an attachment to the e-mail.
The information from the external resource(s) and any information taken from the course material must be cited. For example:
•    if you are referencing the Canada Revenue Agency’s Employers’ Guide – Payroll Deductions and Remittances – T4001, state the URL where the information can be found, http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/E/pub/tg/t4001/README.html
•    if you are referencing the course material, state the Chapter and page number where the information can be found
Leaves: Bereavement Where legislated, employees are permitted to take time off work when a family member dies. The length of the leave depends on whether the deceased individual was a member of the employee’s immediate or extended family. The definition of immediate and extended family member is provided in the legislation for each jurisdiction. This leave is unpaid in most jurisdictions. For example, bereavement leave is unpaid in New Brunswick for close family members. A close family member is defined as: the relationship between persons who are married to one another, between parents and their children, between siblings and between grandparents and their grandchildren, and includes a relationship between persons who, though not married to one another and whether or not a blood relationship exists, demonstrate an intention to extend to one another the mutual affection and support normally associated with those relationships first mentioned.

Leaves: Bereavement Where legislated, employees are permitted to take time off work when a family member dies. The length of the leave depends on whether the deceased individual was a member of the employee’s immediate or extended family. The definition of immediate and extended family member is provided in the legislation for each jurisdiction. This leave is unpaid in most jurisdictions. For example, bereavement leave is unpaid in New Brunswick for close family members. A close family member is defined as: the relationship between persons who are married to one another, between parents and their children, between siblings and between grandparents and their grandchildren, and includes a relationship between persons who, though not married to one another and whether or not a blood relationship exists, demonstrate an intention to extend to one another the mutual affection and support normally associated with those relationships first mentioned.
Manitoba ———–An employee who has been employed for 30 days or more is entitled to three unpaid days of leave for a death in their family
Nova Scotia—— Three unpaid days of leave upon the death of a spouse, child, or parent/guardian; one unpaid day of leave upon death of grandparent, grandchild, sister, brother, in-law
Newfoundland and Labrador —–

One paid day of leave and two unpaid days of leave for employees with 30 consecutive days or more of employment, upon death of spouse, child, mother, father, brother, sister, grandparent, grandchild, in-law. Employees with less than 30 days employment are entitled to two unpaid days of leave.