Sign for Change: Grievance Leave After Miscarriage
Dam Parenting24 Maj 2025

Sign for Change: Grievance Leave After Miscarriage

Grief Is Grief: Why Everyone Should Sign This Petition

Today’s episode brings attention to a critical, often overlooked gap in workplace policy: the lack of national grievance leave for parents who experience pregnancy loss before 24 weeks. Currently, there is no legal protection or standard allowance for time off — it's left to individual employers to decide, leaving many to return to work while still deep in grief.

I’m joined by Fidessa, a powerful voice behind a growing petition calling for grievance time to be recognized on a national scale — regardless of pregnancy gestation. While a draft government proposal begins support at week 24, we ask the difficult question: What about the grief before that? Is it any less real?

This conversation is about raising awareness, honouring early loss, and pushing for policies that reflect the lived realities of so many parents. Miscarriage, stillbirth, and pregnancy loss deserve more than silence and a swift return to business as usual.

Please don’t just listen — sign the petition and share it widely. Ask your partner, friends, family, and coworkers to stand with us in recognizing that grief has no timeline — and support shouldn’t either.


Thank you to Fidessa and Renée for both putting the effort into creating this .


Click on the link here



Time to Grieve report in UK

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