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- Title
Legislating Emotion, Reading Grief: Bereavement Leave for Miscarriage and Stillbirth in New Zealand Law.
- Authors
Calder, Gillian
- Abstract
This paper looks at New Zealand’s Holidays (Bereavement Leave for Miscarriage) Amendment Bill (No 2), an Act that changes Employments Standards legislation to allow bereavement leave for people and their partners at miscarriage and stillbirth. The paper is prompted by the huge media attention that this small change in law received globally. What might Canadian legislators learn by taking a careful look at this New Zealand law that permits an employee time off work to grieve a pregnancy loss? The questions that the legislation provokes are read through the lens of law and emotions literature, situated in the ways that grief has been transformed through the pandemic, and placed against other leave provisions in Canadian law. Taking up Carol Sanger’s proposition of “legislation as a mechanism of emotional influence,” I examine what this change in law helps us see about the intersections of grief, gender, caregiving and work.
- Subjects
BEREAVEMENT leave; MISCARRIAGE; STILLBIRTH; GENDER differences (Psychology); SERVICES for caregivers
- Publication
Dalhousie Law Journal, 2022, Vol 45, Issue 2, p335
- ISSN
0317-1663
- Publication type
Article