12.1 Compassionate Leave

12.1.1 In each event of life threatening illness or death of an immediate family member the Teacher shall be granted up to five (5) working days with pay to attend to necessary arrangements.
- 12.1.1.1 “Immediate family” means:
  - a. an employee’s legal or common law spouse, parent, grandparent, child, grandchild, sibling or spouse of the sibling, aunt, uncle, niece, nephew, foster parent, ward, or guardian; or
  - b. the employee’s legal or common law spouse’s parent, grandparent, child, grandchild, sibling or the spouse of the sibling, aunt, uncle, niece, nephew, foster parent, ward, or guardian.
- 12.1.1.2 PSSD may require an employee to provide, as soon as reasonably possible, a medical certificate verifying a life-threatening illness.
- 12.1.1.3 The Teacher may be granted compassionate leave with or without pay in the event of life threatening illness or death of someone other than those listed in 12.1.1.1 upon approval by PSSD.
12.1.2 In each event of a Teacher attending a funeral of someone other than those listed in Article 12.1.1.1, the Teacher shall be granted leave with pay up to one (1) day.
12.1.3 One (1) additional day with pay shall be granted when travel beyond eight hundred (800) kilometres round trip is required.
12.1.4 PSSD may, upon written request, grant additional compassionate leave with or without pay.