GINNY ANDERSEN (Labour—Hutt South): Thank you very much, Mr Chair. Currently, the bereavement leave provisions in the Holidays Act 2003 are ambiguous in their application to miscarriage. Employees are presently entitled to three days' bereavement leave on the death of a child, but it is unclear whether this would also apply when a pregnancy ends in miscarriage or in stillbirth. This ambiguity means that an employee's entitlement is left at the discretion of the employer, and in some families' cases, they have not been able to take much-needed time to grieve. My bill makes a very simple change. It allows families certainty that they have a legal right to access bereavement leave following a miscarriage or stillbirth. This bill removes the ambiguity by making it clear, at the unplanned end of a pregnancy by miscarriage or stillbirth, that this constitutes grounds for bereavement leave, and that the duration of the leave should be in line with the entitlement after other deaths within the immediate family. I encourage members now for the opportunity to ask further questions or raise issues in relation to the member's bill.