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compassionate leave question

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eastie
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compassionate leave question

Post by eastie »

If your parent dies whilst you are on holiday leave, can you claim the 5 days back?
wacko74
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Post by wacko74 »

Yes.

My dad died when I was on annual leave a few years back.

I actually came back in the following week then took the compassionate leave 2 weeks later when the funeral needing arranging.
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Post by TrueBlueTerrier »

I believe you can but each situation is different.

When my father died I was on my first day of annual leave, I contacted work and they extended my leave by addition the compassionate leave on to the end. This gave me time to do all the paperwork as executor and arrange the funeral.
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