A Nottinghamshire dad who was told he was not entitled to parental leave after his wife died during childbirth is calling for a change in the law. Aaron Horsey, of Beeston, said he was shocked to find out he was not able to take shared parental leave when his wife Bernadette died whilst giving birth to their son Tim on January 19 at Royal Derby Hospital.
"It was incredibly stressful and quite shocking actually when you Google 'what do you do when your child's mother dies?' and find out actually that there isn't anything that anyone is obliged to, or supported in offering you from an employment perspective in those particular circumstances," the 31-year-old said.
Mr Horsey, who works in clinical trial management, was told by his employers that they were unable to give him shared parental leave after the death of 31-year-old Bernadette, who was a biomedical scientist in Nottingham. He said he had already booked annual leave instead of paternity leave due to not being at the company long enough.
