Envoy does have contractual provisions for both unpaid days off (used to be coded PO) and personal emergency/bereavement (used to be coded PE). However, good luck getting either approved. The manager of crew scheduling has basically said no drops or unpaid days off would be granted over the summer, and the CPO has had a lot of power taken away from them by upper management. I've talked to individuals in both the DFW and ORD offices, and although they do what they can, they are receiving an enourmous amount of pressure from above. Funerals are part of the grieving process in our culture, and an emotional outlet as part of the stages of grief. The company treating us as robots and denying we are emotional beings puts a lot of people in peril unnecessary, including said pilot.