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Parents to be entitled to bereavement leave for pregnancy loss before 24 weeks, the Guardian reports
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PARENTS in Britain will be granted the right to bereavement leave after suffering a miscarriage, the Guardian reported today.
The newspaper reported that an amendment to the upcoming Employment Rights Bill, expected to pass into law this summer, will extend two weeks of bereavement leave to parents who have suffered a miscarriage before 24 weeks’ gestation.
In January, a women and equalities select committee report concluded that the case for it was “overwhelming.”
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