Bereavement Leave for Faculty Members and OAAs

In the event of the death of a spouse, University-registered domestic partner, or child, an eligible academic appointee may take up to 20 paid workdays (four workweeks) of bereavement leave. Bereavement leave for the death of a spouse, University-registered domestic partner, or child need not be taken on consecutive workdays and must be taken within one year of the death.

 

For the purposes of this policy, “child” means an eligible academic appointee’s biological, adopted, or foster child; a stepchild; a legal ward; or a child for whom the academic appointee is standing in loco parentis (in the place of a parent).

In the event of the death of an academic appointee’s parent or foster parent, sibling, stepparent, grandparent, grandchild, or child or parent of the appointee’s spouse/University-registered domestic partner, the individual may take up to five consecutive paid workdays of bereavement leave within 60 days of the qualifying event. They may also take an additional five days of unpaid leave to be taken consecutively with their paid leave. A request for such time off should be made of the section chief, department chair, collegiate master, institute director, or dean promptly after the death. In the case of an OAA who is represented by Service Employees International Union Local 73, requests should be directed to the immediate supervisor.

 

Academic appointees who experience a miscarriage, an unsuccessful round of intrauterine insemination or an assisted reproductive technology procedure, a failed adoption match or an adoption that is not finalized because it is contested by another party, a failed surrogacy agreement, a diagnosis that negatively impacts pregnancy or fertility, or a stillbirth may take up to five consecutive paid workdays of bereavement leave within 60 days of the qualifying event. They may take an additional five days of unpaid leave to be taken consecutively with their paid leave.

 

Leave under this section is limited to a total of six (6) weeks in a 12-month period.