Parents who suffer the loss of a child will be entitled to two weeks of paid leave in April — the UK’s Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy announced on 23 Jan 2020. Regulations for the Parental Bereavement (Leave and Pay) Act 2018 — known as “Jack’s Law” — were introduced in Parliament and subject to approval, will be effective on 6 Apr 2020. The right to paid parental bereavement leave makes the UK one of a small group of countries worldwide to offer such support, and the first to offer a full two weeks.
Leave could be taken as either a single block of two weeks, or as two separate blocks of one week each in the 56 weeks after a child’s death.
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