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Whatever you do be sure you get advice from people over this. 2 times now they have screwed me out of pay when my mother died and also when my father in law died simply on the way the obituary was worded. Even when advised by the funeral director to leave the dates out I didn't listen to him and they ended up the company rather using the obituary as proof I didn't deserve the pay. Same thing with my father in law. I know other men that received the full pay due you contractually and when I complained to the business agent he advised me to shut up or they could make the other man payback what they should have received. I work at Holland and when I called one of the vice presidents he was going to pay me and I told him don't bother if you can't do it for the rest of the individuals and you're going to do it to me as a favor. The whole episode left me with a bitter feeling in my stomach over this. So you had better get yourself the right information.
 
ARTICLE 53. FUNERAL LEAVE
In the event of a death in the family (father, mother, wife, husband,
brother, sister, son or daughter), a regular employee shall be entitled
to a maximum of three (3) days off with pay to attend the funeral
and shall include the day after the funeral, provided the employee’s
trip home from the funeral is in excess of three hundred fifty (350)
miles, and such day after the funeral would otherwise have been a
compensable workday for the employee.
To be eligible for funeral leave, the employee must attend, or make
a
bona fide effort to attend, the funeral. Pay for compensable funer-
al leave shall be for eight (8) hours at the straight time hourly rate.
Funeral leave is not compensable when the employee is on leave of
absence, vacation, bona fide lay-off, sick leave, holiday, worker’s
compensa
tion, or jury duty.
T
he r
elatives designated shall include brothers and sisters having
one par
ent in common; and those r
elationships generally called
“ste
p”,
providing persons in such relationships have lived or have
been r
aised in the family home and have continued an active fami-
l
y
relationship.
In the e
vent of a death of an employee’s current Mother-in-law or
F
ather-in-law the employee will be compensated one (1) day’s pay
(not to e
xceed eight (8) hours) for the day of the funeral when the
employee attends the funeral. All other rules regarding Funeral leave
shall apply to this provision
https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.n...4126364/Central-LocalCartage_0.pdf?1434126364
 
Long time back I was on a 10:30am Albany turn bid out of Jersey. Wanted to book off one day because I wanted to attend the wake of a very close family friend. Dispatch guaranteed that I'd turn right back from Albany with no delay so I could work and still get to the wake. At Albany dispatcher there tried to send me to Allentown. I told him I only came in on the understanding that I'd turn back home to get to the wake. He didn't care and told me I had to go to Allentown first. I took my papers and told him I was hooking to my trailer and going back to Jersey. He told me he was going to call the State Police and have me arrested on the Thruway. I told him to do whatever he wanted to do and that I was going directly back home to Jersey like I was promised. That's exactly what I did and I never saw the State Police or got arrested. Sometimes you have to do what you have to do.
 
I am always amazed at how heartless these people are when our family members die, talk about kicking a person when they're down, this is it.
 
albag said:
Both my parents passed while we were Roadway Express. They paid all 3 days without question, and as LB said was told to take as much unpaid time, to grieve, as needed.
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My father died suddenly and unexpectedly while I was at Maislin. I was running my Albany turn bid and the family priest called the company to get word to me. Company didn't want to tell me directly while I was on the road so they told Albany dispatcher to tell me I had a hot load that had to get back to Jersey right away. I was too smart for my own good and wondered about that so I called Jersey dispatch and said I wanted to stop and eat on the way home. Those were the days (1977) when we stopped many times enroute to "socialize" with friends along the way. Poor dispatcher in Jersey didn't know what to say to me without spilling the beans so he told me to go ahead and stop to eat. Caused my mom to have to wait a while longer till I got back and dispatch told me to call home right away and I finally got the word.

Company was also very good. Got paid for three days per contract but I was off for over a week to take care of things.
 
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