AIBU to believe my employee?

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An employee of mine asked for a day off as one of her husband's relatives relatives has passed and they wanted to attend the funeral. She had already used all of her annual leave but I said she could take it off and just make the hours up there and then so she would still be paid. She told me the date of the funeral approx 10d in advance.
Now DH is saying funerals are planned quicker than this so maybe she lied about why she wanted the time off.
So, AIBU to trust her and believe there can be 10 days between a death and the funeral?

Mil died in November and the funeral was in January - I realise this is extreme! But at least a week or even two is usually normal.

I was amazed when working with a colleague with family in Ireland as soon as anyone died she'd be booking flights I had no idea funerals could be arranged so quickly.

@Loopytiles - apparently it's standard in their area whenever there's an 'unusual' death of a child. It destroyed my friend's marriage.

It's usually around 2 weeks to arrange a funeral here. So 10 days is perfectly normal

I think that's a very unkind comment on the part of your DH. She's making the time up, she's given you notice, what need is there is cast aspersions on her during what is likely to be a difficult time.

In Scotland it took 8 days for my father and a week for fil and we are not in large towns/cities l. 10 days seems about right.

My grandfather was buried 11 days after death so I'd certainly say it was possible

In our area at the moment there is a minimum 3 week wait for a cremation unless you are prepared to take a last minute unpopular time.

My dm died 33 years ago late on Friday night and funeral was following Friday (after post mortem as well). When df died 5 years ago (no post mortem) we had to wait 2.5 weeks for funeral. Now it is even longer.

I don't think your h is being very nice. Why would he automatically think the worst of this woman?
Even in a family business where both of you were the employers, if an employee has cleared leave with one of you, then the other one has no right to interfere, let alone cast aspersions on someone else's character with no evidence of wrong doing at all.

Took 5 weeks for my MIL last year because there had been so many deaths in her town (Essex). Dh's brothers and sisters were most upset by this.

Took 4 weeks for my friend in Bath recently.

I am shocked that your Dh would disbelieve her.

My lovely Mum passed away very suddenly on January 30th this year. A PM was required and when I went to the hospital to register the death the registrar was telling me they had 3 times the average number of deaths here in January and there was a backlog. It was a puzzle to them as the weather hadn't been especially poor at the time, something which I know can add to the numbers.
The funeral was held on February 22nd.

As an aside, my Dad passed away some 8 years ago and Mum had kept his ashes with her. Dad was buried with Mum at the same time, so technically 8 years for the burial.

for everyone who's lost someone they loved.

There were 11 days between my DM's death and the funeral. She died at home on a Sunday and so two doctors needed to write the death certificate, which delayed things until late on the Monday.

I volunteer on a Wednesday and really didn't want to let them down so I begged my family to make the funeral on the Thursday or Friday. This was agreed.

If they are religious though it might be much quicker, Jewish and Moslem funerals are usually within 24 hours.