WORKERS in the public and private sectors who have lost a family member will benefit from a new kind of mandatory leave proposed on Thursday by Sen. Grace Poe.

Senate Bill 1026 or the Bereavement Leave Act of 2016 calls for a 10-day leave with full pay for all employees in the private and public sectors whose immediate family member had died.

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