The UK has become the first country to offer grieving parents two weeks’ statutory paid leave. Known as Jack’s Law, the new rules will come into force in April, allowing all working parents who lose a child aged under 18 to take leave as either a single block of two weeks, or as two separate blocks of one week each across the first year after the death. Mother Lucy Herd began campaigning for reform after her son died in 2010. Her-then husband was given just three days leave.
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