0 a period of time that a company allows you not to come to work because a member of your family has died or is ill
1 paid time off work that someone is allowed to have because a member of their family has died, or because they have a serious personal problem:
Warrants are also issued for sick leave and embarkation or disembarkation leave, and for compassionate leave when the free annual leave warrants have been exhausted.
The same criterion is adopted in deciding whether a soldier in this country should be granted compassionate leave.
It is true that a man may get compassionate leave.
It is not the policy to refuse to grant compassionate leave in these circumstances, and each case is considered on its individual merits.
Since that date, cases in which a period of compassionate leave is inadequate may be dealt with by premature release or discharge.
Compassionate leave is paid leave and counts as normal service in calculating a man's release group.
Deserving compassionate cases, however, can still be met by the grant of compassionate leave or indefinite release or discharge when this is justified.
Compassionate leave may be granted to any convicted prisoner when there is a good enough reason.
