.. If the deceased died in the line of duty as a member of the uniformed services. Such leave is intended to permit the employee to prepare for or attend the burial ceremony of the deceased member of the uniformed services and may be paid or unpaid leave.
Conversely, however, the United States Federal government presently has no laws in place to similarly (or otherwise, in comparable and appropriate ways) formally acknowledge and honor the passing of federal government personnel other than military personnel.
According to U.S. Code Title 5, Part III; Subpart E; Chapter 63; Subchapter II (2005), the federal government does in fact authorize, according to three separate sections of Title 5: (1) Sec. 6321, "Absence of veterans to attend funeral services; (2) Sec. 6326, "Absence in connection with funerals of immediate relatives in the Armed Forces," and (3) Sec. 6328, "Absence in connection with funerals of fellow Federal law enforcement officers." Title 5, therefore, authorizes the use of sick leave to attend a family member's funeral, and within Title 5, various procedures and rights to leave, paid or unpaid, for immediate survivors, are delineated for: (1) funerals of law enforcement officers; (2) funerals of relatives in the Armed forces, and (3) funerals of veterans (2005).
However, no other branches of United States government service are mentioned, in terms of funeral protocols, survivors' rights, or leaves of absence for survivors, anywhere within Title 5 of the U.S. Code. In fact, within the two agencies of U.S. government service whose work is very often, arguably, equally as dangerous as active military service (and in some cases, more so), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), no similar or equivalent funeral benefits or honors are offered in honor of fallen members of those agencies, their spouses or other immediate survivors, as they are for military personnel and their families. The FBI, for example, offers annual leave; sick leave; family medical leave; maternity leave; paternity leave, and family friendly leave, which includes:
up to 40 hours (5 days) of sick leave in a leave year to care for a family member or to arrange or attend an immediate family member's funeral. In addition to the 40 hours of sick leave allowed, an employee may use an additional 64 hours under certain circumstances [emphasis added]. (Benefits, 2005, p. 2).
The CIA's leave policies are very similar to those of the FBI (Sunoo & Solomon, 1996): no specific funeral leave or funeral honors are granted to CIA personnel, or immediate relatives of CIA personnel, killed in the line of duty (p. 8). However, according to one CIA employee, whose 33-year-old husband was presented with a diagnosis of lung cancer and died two months later (p. 8), additional benefits were in fact forthcoming from the agency when she most needed them (but only due to an internal pool of donated annual leave, and the compassion and generosity of her peers):
Thank goodness the agency maintains a pool of annual leave donated by other employees. People who have excess leave time can donate it to the pool. It's so helpful for those involved in catastrophic situations... I never had to take a leave without pay...My office gave me a week off after he died.
Like many employees of many workplaces nationwide then, according to Sunoo & Solomon, 1996; Grief in the workplace (April 2003); to Bereavement in the workplace (2005) and Tyler (2003), CIA employees, like the vast majority of other U.S. government employees (not to mention employees of most other public and private entities) depend, following the death of a loved one, on workplace kindness rather than on a governmental guarantee (like that given, uniquely, to U.S. Armed Services members and their families) of up to seven days of federally-protected funeral and/or bereavement leave time.
In summary, then, the United States federal government currently has no laws equivalent to either Title 38 or to HR 4954 in place to similarly acknowledge the passing of non-military federal personnel, or the effects of their passing upon their loved ones. The federal government currently authorizes only the use of previously-accrued sick leave to attend a family member's funeral. Separate procedures are also spelled out, within Title 5, for leave that may be taken for funerals of law enforcement officers; funerals of relatives in the Armed forces, and funerals of veterans. However, no other branch of government service is covered, in terms of funeral leave protected by law, much less funeral honors for other than military personnel, anywhere within either Title 5 or Title 38.
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