Benefits - Staff Bereavement/Funeral Leave

Benefits

Non-Union Staff Bereavement/Funeral Leave

Consult the Funeral/Bereavement Leave or Expanded Funeral/Bereavement Leave in Times of War/National Emergencies policy on the Syracuse University Policies web site.

Request funeral/bereavement leave from your supervisor.

In the payroll system, allowable paid time should be coded as: 180-Funeral.

Paid or unpaid time in excess of allowed funeral/bereavement leave should be coded as appropriate, based on the type of time used (vacation, FMLA, etc.)

Questions? Contact the HR Service Center at 443-4042 or e-mail hrservic@syr.edu.

Union Staff Bereavement/Funeral Leave

Article 24, Funeral Leave

Section 1. The Employer agrees that up to three (3) days of leave with pay for which the employee would otherwise be scheduled to work will be authorized within five (5) days from the date of notification of death in the immediate family. Requests for extension of leave beyond the three (3) days may be charged to earned vacation, if such extension seems justified by the employee's supervisor. If the interment of an immediate family member is delayed for any reason, then the employee can save one of the three days to attend the burial.
Verification of relationship and death may be requested if a question arises.
Section 2. The immediate family includes mother or father, foster or stepparents, husband or wife, son or daughter, sister or brother, mother-in-law, father-in-law, daughter-in-law, son-in-law, sister-in-law, brother-in-law, grandparents, grandparents-in-law, grandchildren, foster and stepchildren.
Section 3. For the purpose of Article 24, Funeral Leave, only, and not to affect any other Article of this Agreement, the the Employer will grant the benefits noted in Article 24, Section 1., to any employee's registered same sex or opposite-sex domestic partner. To comply with this Section the employee must complete an Affidavit of Domestic Partnership at the Syracuse University Employee Benefits Office, Skytop Office Building. The employee must immediately notify the Employer if there is any change in circumstances attested to in the Affidavit by completing a Statement of Termination of Domestic Partnership at the Employee Benefits Office.

Questions? Contact Staff Relations and Recruitment at 443-4624.