First, you should find out

the true status of the project you were wroking before the incident.  In my view, if the PROJECT you were working on is indeed complete, it is acceptable for company to reduce work force, just bad timing for you, .  If not, I think that your rights were somewhat violated.  I do not know how you communicated your situation to your management.  Did you follow company's procedure?  any approval from management?  The company should have established policies on how to handle death of direct relatives. 

Usually, company will allow two days for attending funeral anywhere US.  Your case is that you need to travel internationally, so one week would be reasonable, during my assignment in China, my America colleague who had to come back for his mother's funeral, he left for a week.  For your case, you took about three weeks, maybe you need to find some reasons to justify that.  For instance, you were hospitalized because of tremendous grief, but you need to have evidence. 

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• Too late, the management is now just blocking her -数据分析- ♂ (0 bytes) () 06/23/2014 postreply 07:50:34

• 回复：Too late, the management is now just blocking her -数据分析- ♂ (541 bytes) () 06/23/2014 postreply 07:54:13

• Agree. If a family memeber has chronic illness, the unforunate -bjhaigui- ♂ (394 bytes) () 06/23/2014 postreply 08:32:11

• 常见问题，也许是文化背景的问题吧 -数据分析- ♂ (118 bytes) () 06/23/2014 postreply 08:35:55

• 另外，平时尽量积攒些credit，公司才可能在需要的时候给点“方便”或“照顾”。 -心苔- ♀ (0 bytes) () 06/23/2014 postreply 09:36:26