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An employee who is absent from work due to death in the immediate family (mother, father, spouse, sole domestic partner, child, step child, ward, foster child, sister, brother, grandmother, great grandmother, grandfather, great grandfather, grandchild, mother-in-law, father-in-law, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, or any relative of the employee residing in the employee's household) may charge up to three (3) days for such absence to attend the funeral or for mourning. Such time must be initiated within seven (7) calendar days from notice of the date of death. If such notification exceeds the date of death by more than seven (7) days, a department may require verification of notification. However, in the event that the funeral of a member of the immediate family is held at some distant location, and the employee will attend, an exception to the above may be requested by the employee to provide for up to five (5) days of absence to be charged to bereavement leave.

If an employee requests to use available vacation time to extend the bereavement leave, it will not be unreasonably denied.