Bereavement

Based upon a Chancellor’s Regulation and Personnel Memorandum #34 (1990-91), you are entitled to an excused absence with full pay if you have a death in your immediate family. If your parent, child, sibling, grandparent, grandchild, spouse or domestic partner, or parent of spouse or domestic partner or any relative or step-relative should die and are members of your personal household, you are entitled to the day of death plus the next three calendar days (excluding weekends and holidays, but not beyond the ninth calendar day from the day of death). The superintendent may grant additional time with appropriate documentation.

You are entitled to an excused absence of no more than one day for attending the funeral of a school colleague, niece, nephew, aunt or uncle who is not a member of your personal household.

Your school secretary can provide you with the forms and documentation required for these absences.