This Section amends section 80EA of Part 8 of the ERA 1996 (parental bereavement leave) to provide an entitlement to bereavement leave including pregnancy loss.
	Subsection (2) amends the title of Chapter 4 of Part 8 from "Parental Bereavement Leave" to "Bereavement Leave".
	Subsection (3) makes numerous amendments to section 80EA of the ERA 1996 to require the Secretary of State to make regulations to give an entitlement to employees who are bereaved to take protected time off work, in addition to already existing provision for Parental Bereavement Leave.
	Subparagraphs (a) to (c) provide that a "bereaved person" will be defined in regulations by reference to the employee’s relationship with the person who has died. This includes an employee who has suffered the loss of a pregnancy of a kind to be specified in regulations, or an employee who has a specified relationship with such a person or a specified relationship with a child who had been expected to be born. The regulations will be made by affirmative procedure.
	Subsection (3) subparagraphs (d) to (i) make related amendments to section 80E. These require that, in the case of bereavement leave in respect of a pregnancy loss or a person other than a child, the regulations must set the duration of leave and when the leave can be taken. The duration of leave must be at least 1 week (which is any period of seven days). The regulations must establish a period within which the leave may be taken, which must extend to at least 56 days after the loss. The regulations must also specify that, where more than one loss is experienced and the relationship to the employee is captured in regulations, the employee is entitled to leave in respect of each loss. Regulations can also make provision for how the leave is to be taken. In a case where a child carried past 24 weeks of pregnancy or under the age of 18 has died, the entitlement to statutory Parental Bereavement Pay under Part 12ZD of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 will still apply.
	Subparagraph (j) amends section 80EA of ERA 1996 to provide a definition of pregnancy loss as the ‘ending of a pregnancy after less than 24 weeks in any way other than by a live birth’ or ‘IVF embryo transfer loss’.
	Subsections (4) to (11) make other amendments to the ERA 1996 for the purposes of the new entitlement. This includes enabling the regulations to provide certain protections for employees who take bereavement leave, such as protection against detriment, protection of contractual rights and for treating a dismissal which takes place for a reason relating to bereavement leave as unfair.
	Subsections (12) to (14) make amendments to other legislation in consequence of the introduction of statutory bereavement leave.
Part 1: Employment Rights Entitlements to leave Section 18: Bereavement Leave