Denied bereavement to employee who lost 3-day old fetus. Well?
Also IMBTA because I asked her how this is possible, as she lost the last fetus nine days ago (and took a week of bereavement PTO). She replied that though it's "none of my business", she and her husband got pregnant again the night before she RTW. That means she carried this child 3 days and lost it.
She lost a whopping 13 unborn children this way through 2024, all similar lengths of pregnancy. Took 13 weeks PTO, not including vaca/personal.
This year I'm putting my foot down. Today I was wrestling with updating our bereavement policy to add documentation requirements -- essentially, due to a single employee who is going to get the same answer, medical/funerary docs or not -- and decided "fuck it"