Time-Out Zone

Personal days for life's big moments

Entitlement tags grant per-person life-event credits, bereavement, parental, relocation, religious observance, birthday. Each credit unlocks a dedicated leave type, gets redeemed through the normal request flow, and never touches the PTO math.

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Life-event leave: what the market and the law give

60%

of US civilian workers have access to paid bereavement leave, up from 57% in 2023

41%

of US civilian workers have access to paid personal leave, 67% in large organizations, 36% in small ones

3-5 days

the standard US bereavement allowance for immediate family, only 1 in 5 companies offer more than five

2 days

what German public-service contracts grant for the death of a spouse, child, or parent, with birth and work moves at one day each

  • In the US no federal law mandates bereavement days, personal days, or floating holidays. It is all employer policy, which is why roughly 90% of employers end up writing their own life-event rules, and someone has to track every one of them.
  • In the DACH region short paid absences are the law: Germany's Section 616 BGB keeps pay flowing for unavoidable personal events, and public-service contracts list the occasions day by day, while a wedding is famously not even in the catalog.

Figures from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (2025), SHRM and industry leave surveys (2025), and German collective-agreement law. Rounded.

Every credit, with a live status

The employee's policy view lists each life-event entitlement and where it stands: requestable, requestable with event details, or needs profile setup. Add the missing birth date and the credit unlocks on the spot; a bereavement request asks for the event details right in the form.

One click creates both

A life-event credit needs two things: the tag and a matching leave type. Quick setup creates them together in a single transaction. Pick the event, and the tag chip and the leave type land side by side, wired and ready to assign.

Five life events

Bereavement, parental, relocation, religious observance, and birthday. Each tag carries its own days granted and reaches exactly the people you assign it to.

A tag unlocks a leave type

The credit is not a number in the PTO balance. It unlocks a dedicated leave type that only tagged, eligible employees can request.

Redeemed, not accrued

Days are granted when the employee redeems them through the request flow. They never auto-accrue, and there is nothing to expire or clean up.

Setup gates keep it honest

Birthday needs a birth date on file, religious observance needs a stated preference. Until then the credit shows as "needs profile setup", not as a silent no.

The details, spelled out

Event details required

Bereavement, parental, and relocation requests ask for the event details in the reason field before they submit.

Stricter notice wins

A tag can carry its own advance notice for redemption. The stricter of tag and leave type applies.

Outside the PTO formula

Entitlement credits live on their own leave types. The vacation balance and Additional PTO stay untouched.

Reminders, throttled

Admins can email tagged employees a setup reminder, throttled to once per 14 days per person.

Values in the visuals are examples. Every tag's days, notice, and events are configurable.

Life events

Five reasons, one mechanism

Every entitlement kind maps to a moment where work should get out of the way.

  • Bereavement, parental, and relocation carry real dates and details, so the request collects the event details in the reason field.
  • Religious observance unlocks once the employee states the preference on their own profile, private by design.
  • Birthday can go one step further: an optional automation grants the day off with no request at all.

Redemption

Granted when redeemed, not before

A credit only turns into days when the employee actually uses it.

  • The tag unlocks a dedicated leave type in the request flow; approval runs through the normal chain.
  • Nothing accrues in the background: no drip, no expiry dates, no year-end cleanup for unused life events.
  • Advance notice still applies, the stricter of the tag's rule and the leave type's rule wins.

Visibility

Nobody left guessing

Life-event leave fails quietly when people don't know they have it.

  • Employees see every credit under "Eligible for" in their policy view, with a live status per event.
  • A dashboard setup prompt asks for exactly the profile data each credit needs, and nothing more.
  • Admins see every entitlement card in one place, with days granted, notice, and a one-click setup reminder.

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Birthday automation

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Additive segmentation

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Replacement segmentation

Ready to get started?

Give us a call. We'll map your life-event policies, bereavement to birthday, onto entitlement tags and show the employee view before you commit to anything.

Birthday Automation

An approved day off, no request needed.

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Additive Segmentation

Bonus days stacked on the base.

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Frequently asked questions

What are personal entitlement tags?
Segmentation tags that grant per-person life-event credits: bereavement, parental, relocation, religious observance, and birthday. A tag unlocks a dedicated leave type for the people who carry it; days are granted when the employee redeems them through the request flow, separate from the PTO balance.
Is there a legal right to bereavement leave?
In the US there is no federal mandate, only a handful of states require it, so most bereavement policy is set by the employer. In Germany, Section 616 BGB covers short unavoidable absences and public-service contracts grant two paid days for the death of a spouse, child, or parent. Either way, the policy needs a system that tracks it.
What about wedding leave?
A wedding is not one of the five entitlement kinds, and notably it is not in the German public-service catalog either. If your policy grants wedding days, model them as their own leave type; entitlement tags stay reserved for the five built-in life events.
Floating holiday, personal day, PTO, what's the difference?
PTO is the accruing vacation balance. A floating holiday or personal day is a fixed credit for a personal occasion, which is exactly what an entitlement tag models: a set number of days, unlocked for specific people, redeemed when the moment comes.
How is this different from replacement and additive tags?
Replacement swaps the whole PTO policy, additive stacks bonus days on the balance. Entitlement does neither: it unlocks a separate life-event leave type and leaves the PTO math alone.
Do entitlement days accrue or expire?
Neither. The credit sits ready until the life event happens and the employee redeems it. There is no accrual schedule and no expiry to administer.