Policies and Regulations
School Board of the City of Virginia Beach
Regulation 4-46.1
PERSONNEL
Funeral Leave
An employee who has a death in the family will be allowed up to the hourly equivalent of three days of paid funeral leave as approved by the employee’s principal, director, or department head. The family of the employee will be interpreted to include: any relative living in the household of the employee; any parent (natural, adoptive, foster, or step), spouse, child, brother, sister, step-child, step-brother, step-sister, mother-in-law, father-in-law, sister-in-law, brother-in-law, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, and foster child of the employee or the employee’s spouse. Also included as family of the employee are the grandparent, and grandchild of either the employee or the employee’s spouse.
Additional funeral leave days (maximum of the hourly equivalent of two (2) days), for extenuating circumstances such as out of state travel, may be requested by the employee’s principal, director, or department head through the Assistant Superintendent/designee for Human Resources. If more than the hourly equivalent of five (5) days are needed for a death in the family, the use of sick leave for additional days of funeral leave must be approved by the Assistant Superintendent/designee for Human Resources.
Approved by Superintendent: July 16, 1991
Revised by Superintendent: September 15, 1992
Approved by School Board: February 16, 1993
Revised by Superintendent: December 13, 2002
Revised by Superintendent: March 8, 2006
Revised by Superintendent: February 12, 2008