Common use of Is amended to read Clause in Contracts

Is amended to read. An employee shall be permitted time off from work up to a maximum of four (4) days for the purposes of arranging and attending the funeral of a member of his/her immediate family or, where he/she does not attend the funeral, one (1) day. Where any of such days fall on a scheduled work day for the employee, he/she shall be paid a bereavement allowance for each day equivalent to eight (8) or twelve (12) times the hourly rate of the occupation to which he/she would normally be assigned. Immediate family shall mean spouse, son, daughter, mother, father, sister, brother, grandmother, grandfather, grandchildren, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, mother-in-law, father-in-law, sister-in-law, or brother-in-law, or, a common-law spouse and mother, father, sister, brother or children of such common-law spouse provided the employee has cohabited with such spouse for three (3) or more years." For the purpose of this clause, the terms `sister-in-law' and `brother-in-law' shall be defined as the brother or sister of the employee's spouse and the wife or husband of the employee's brother or sister."