{"id":30150,"date":"2021-03-25T15:17:08","date_gmt":"2021-03-25T06:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/25\/new-zealand-miscarriages-stillbirths-bereavement-leave"},"modified":"2021-03-25T15:17:08","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T06:17:08","slug":"new-zealand-brings-in-bereavement-leave-for-miscarriages-and-stillbirths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=30150","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand brings in bereavement leave for miscarriages and stillbirths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Legislation allowing three days\u2019 leave applies to parents, their partners, and parents planning to have a child through adoption or surrogacy<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand\u2019s parliament has voted unanimously to give mothers and their partners three days of bereavement leave after a miscarriage or stillbirth.<\/p>\n<p>Labour MP Ginny Andersen, who presented the bill, said it would allow parents to come to terms with their loss without being forced to use up their sick leave entitlements. \u201cThe grief that comes with miscarriage is not a sickness; it is a loss,\u201d she said. \u201cThat loss takes time \u2013 time to recover physically and time to recover mentally; time to recover with a partner\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/25\/new-zealand-miscarriages-stillbirths-bereavement-leave\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legislation allowing three days\u2019 leave applies to parents, their partners, and parents planning to have a child through adoption or surrogacyNew Zealand\u2019s parliament has voted unanimously to give mothers and their partners three days of bereavement lea&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2034,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2034"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30151,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30150\/revisions\/30151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}