Submitted on Thursday 13th May 2021
Rejected on Wednesday 19th May 2021
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Bereavement leave for up to 3 working days for unplanned pregnancy loss
Issue a National bill making it clear that the unplanned end to a pregnancy by miscarriage or still birth constitutes bereavement leave for the mother and her partner or spouse and that the duration of the bereavement leave should be up to 3 working days.
Currently families who experience unplanned pregnancy loss by miscarriage or still birth do not have paid bereavement leave in the UK. This often results in women and families requiring time off as sickness leave. Which can in some cases, result in an impact on their income. The unplanned loss of a pregnancy is a bereavement to the family and should be treated in line with bereavement leave constituting up to 3 days leave.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.
You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.
Bereavement leave is already available to people who lose a pregnancy after 24 weeks, and we have published the following petitions calling for this leave to be extended to all pregnancy loss, which you might like to sign:
Extend statutory bereavement leave to pregnancy loss before 24 weeks: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/574455
The existing entitlement to statutory bereavement leave is for one or two week's leave. People taking statutory bereavement leave are entitled to get either £151.97 a week or 90% of your average weekly earnings (whichever is lower) if you’re eligible.
If you would like the Government to change statutory bereavement leave in a different way to the above petition, we could accept a new petition requesting this, but it would need to be clear how you wanted existing entitlements to be changed.
You can read more about Statutory Parental Bereavement Pay and Leave here: www.gov.uk/parental-bereavement-pay-leave
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