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MPs back GMB campaign to extend paid bereavement leave to pregnancy losses before 24 weeks

PAID bereavement leave should be extended to pregnancy losses before 24 weeks, MPs said today.

The women and equalities committee said it will put forward the proposal as an amendment to the government’s Employment Rights Bill.

GMB has long been campaigning for the change in the law.

The Department for Business and Trade said the Bill “will establish a new right to bereavement leave, make paternity and parental leave a day-one right, and strengthen protections for pregnant women and new mothers returning to work.”

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