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Reason to Believe Dishonest Employee

Theresa Muir

Hi All

I hope you are all well

We have a situation were an employee has asked for time off to attend their Gran mother's funeral, to which they were granted, however, we have very good reason to believe that the funeral that they attending was actually her partners Gran mothers funeral - have any of you dealt with this sort of situation before?

Your thoughts would be greatly appreciated 

Regards

Theresa

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  • Hi Theresa

    I always think in this kind of scenario we can't know the real nature of the relationship between the employee and the person who has died. We have policies which say that someone gets 5 days paid bereavement leave if a parent died, but perhaps they were brought up by their grandparents, or an uncle or aunt or a neighbour. Perhaps your employee formed a close relationship with her partner's grandmother and thought of her as her own. We can't know. She might have been attending a funeral for someone who felt like family or she might have been supporting her partner at his loved one's funeral. . Do you really want to get into a comparative evaluation of the intensity of her emotional relationships? I don't think that's appropriate for an employer.
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  • Hi Theresa

    I always think in this kind of scenario we can't know the real nature of the relationship between the employee and the person who has died. We have policies which say that someone gets 5 days paid bereavement leave if a parent died, but perhaps they were brought up by their grandparents, or an uncle or aunt or a neighbour. Perhaps your employee formed a close relationship with her partner's grandmother and thought of her as her own. We can't know. She might have been attending a funeral for someone who felt like family or she might have been supporting her partner at his loved one's funeral. . Do you really want to get into a comparative evaluation of the intensity of her emotional relationships? I don't think that's appropriate for an employer.
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