Women and partners should be entitled to paid bereavement leave following a miscarriage, MPs recommend
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WOMEN and their partners should be entitled to paid bereavement leave if they experience a miscarriage, MPs have recommended.
Sick leave is an “inappropriate and inadequate form of employer support” for couples after such a pregnancy loss, the women and equalities committee said.
While statutory parental bereavement leave has been available since April 2020 for stillbirths after 24 weeks, there is no provision for pre-24-week pregnancy losses.
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