414.4 - Classified Employee Bereavement Leave

In case of the death of an employee's spouse, child, or step-child, the employee

shall be entitled to a leave of absence of five (5) consecutive work days, with pay. Said leave days may be taken within a reasonable time after the death, but if not taken within ten (10) work days after the death, shall be lost. The employee shall promptly notify the Superintendent of the death, and when the leave days will be taken.

In the case of the death of the employee's brother, sister, parent or grandparent, the employee shall be entitled to a leave of absence of three (3) consecutive work days, with pay. Said leave days may be taken within a reasonable time after the death, but if not taken within ten (10) work days after the death, shall be lost. The employee shall promptly notify the Superintendent of the death, and when the leave days will be taken.

In the case of the death of the employee's spouse's brother, sister, parent or grandparent, the employee shall be entitled to a leave of absence of three (3) consecutive work days with pay. Said leave days may be taken within a reasonable time after the death, but if not taken within ten (10) work days after the death, shall be lost. The employee shall notify the Superintendent of this death, and when the leave days will be taken.

In case of the death of a person with whom the employee had an unusually close personal relationship, the employee shall be entitled to a leave of absence, without pay, for the time necessary to attend the funeral. The employee shall promptly notify the Superintendent of this death, and when the leave will be taken.

 

 

Legal Reference:  Iowa Code §§ 20; 279.8.

Cross Reference:  414 Classified Employee Vacations and Leaves of Absence

Approved: March 1996
Reviewed:  April 2009, January 2011, January 2014, January 2017, May 2020