Leave Guidelines

I was asked today who has responsibility for notifying the rest of staff when an employee has a death in the family. My answer is: I don't think there is anything covering the subject. Here is my suggestion: Since the Personnel Office many times doesn't know about these things until leave requests come in sometime after the employee returns to work, the best person to get the information out on E-Mail would be the employee's supervisor. If someone in a library has to be off for bereavement leave, the supervisor is aware of it before Personnel is. The same thine goes for the other agencies and offices: Automation, Materials Selection, Cataloging, Technical Processing, Business Office, etc.