§ XII. Bereavement leave.

A.

A regular employee may have up to three (3) consecutive paid working days of bereavement leave upon notification to his or her department director of a death in the employee's family. The employee's family recognized for this benefit will only include the following: employee's spouse, child (stepchild), parent (stepparent), legal guardian, sister (stepsister), brother (stepbrother), grandparent, grandchild, grandparent-in-law, mother-in-law, father-in-law, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, sister-in-law and brother-in-law.

B.

The director of human resources may grant additional paid bereavement leave for travel time in an amount not to exceed two (2) days, one (1) day for travel to the funeral and one (1) day for travel home from the funeral. To be eligible for additional bereavement leave the employee must be traveling a distance greater than three hundred (300) miles one (1) way to attend the funeral.

C.

A regular employee called for service as a pallbearer may be allowed up to one (1) day off from work with pay, for the time necessary to serve as a pallbearer. However, the employee must have prior approval from his or her department director before leaving work for pallbearer service. If the pallbearer service is for a family member that qualifies the employee for bereavement leave as outlined in paragraph A. of this section, then the employee will not be eligible to receive the one (1) day of pay for pallbearer service. Any additional time off from work to serve as a pallbearer will be charged to vacation first and if no vacation leave is available then the employee must take leave without pay.