Yeah, need time off if my pet dies . The dad , mom and children need time off if the pet dies because the pet is a part of the family. This is a slippery slope. We will keep going down this rabbit hole.

... so between the amount of public holidays, sick **call in** days, days with a sick slip, compassionate days, maternity days, vacation days, personal time days and sometimes days for jury duty, why don't companies just pay people to stay home?

No work is happening anyway

The owners of businesses and their few hard working employees will of course have to pay for the many slackers as they have always done. After all, the lazy do nothing slackers need as much time off from real work as they can possibly get in order to focus all of their time and effort on becoming as big a person as Robert Farquharson is, and that's no easy task.

Many bosses need mental health days.
Many mental health days.

Just rename Election Day Mental Health Day. God knows you have to be crazy to vote.

ROFL Love it!

guarantee this will be abused to the max as more days off work. we need to be careful following all these 1st world and UN driven initiatives. most of those countries have high taxes to fund these things.. do we want that?

headline "Who will pay for mental health days?" Answer is clear that society will pay the price.

Increasing stresses are GLARINGLY evident.

There are increasing numbers of homeless Bahamians sleeping on areas off the sides of the streets and pleading for help in the streets in dirt stained clothes, there is the obvious documented government having to feed thousands of children breakfast, there is the increasing suicides, there are the longer lines of hungry lining up for soup kitchens, there is the fact that persons cannot afford homes, there is the fact that regressive VAT taxes applied be the governments severely create hardships to the explosive increasing pain and hardships of Bahamians - fully known by the authorities of the increased population below poverty levels and the list goes on and on and on and on.

Increasing stress affects and erodes and destroys TRUST creates FURTHER Harm, less and LESS PRODUCTIVITY, influences others in futility of better situations, destroys productivity, increses CARELESS ERRORS, lousy customer services where no one cannot smile or have the effort to help customers where the nation deals wid a lot of service industries, in businesses, creates harm and carelessness's, morale, illnesses increase leading to more man hours lost creating more work for existing staff.

In a small, small, small, small, small island nation any efforts to stem the adverse effects of mental health must be a priority to continue where all of us are directly connected. Right now many motorists would rather stay home to ease the increasing additional, and additional and additional stresses rather than to endure the terror on the streets by few other road users.

You're clearly a meathead who's happy to have our corrupt ruling political elite pass more infuriatingly meaningless laws to fix a national mental health crisis that they themselves created in the first place. Just think about that the next time you are about to cast your vote for either the PLP or FNM candidate running for elected office in your constituency.

When you need a mental break from work you take a vacation day. THAT'S WHAT VACATION DAYS ARE FOR!!!!!!!
And for those of YOU who are lucky enough to have personal days... when you need a mental break from work you take a personal day. THAT'S WHAT PERSONAL DAYS ARE FOR!!!!!
By damn our society has become lazy town.