Sentences with phrase «more flexible parental»

On March 22, 2017, the Canadian Federal Government released Budget 2017: Building a Strong Middle Class («Budget 2017») which proposes more flexible parental, maternity and caregiving leaves and Employment Insurance («EI») benefits to support employees in balancing work and their family responsibilities.

The Liberals also promised to create a more flexible parental benefits plan that would allow parents to receive their benefits in smaller blocks of time — for example, once every two weeks rather than once per month.

More Flexible Parental Leave Policies With more families with two parents working, it's time we reevaluate our parental leave policies.

The Conservatives have called for more flexible parental leave, arguing parents should be able to share time - off.

In their 2015 election platform, the Trudeau Liberals identified a number of items related to Employment Insurance (EI) that they would change: reversing the Harper EI reforms defining «suitable work»; reducing the waiting period for EI benefits; reducing EI premiums; introducing more flexible parental leave; providing better access to compassionate care; and increasing funding for employment and training programs managed by provinces, territories and Aboriginal labour market organizations.

More flexible parental leave.

Not exact matches

Smaller fixes include making it more obvious that flexible work options and parental leave aren't just for moms.

We will make parental benefits more flexible.

Better sharing of information on existing legal tools would make these tools more widely available and encourage flexible solutions appropriate to individual situations, allowing a «step - parent» or another third party to share the exercise of parental authority when such sharing proves necessary and in the best interest of the child.

This is why, in the face of the growing phenomenon of re-composed families, the mechanism was made more flexible in 2002 (Law no. 2002 - 305 of March 4, 2002, relative to parental authority) and now offers family law judges the possibility of organizing the sharing of parental authority as best suits the educational needs of the child and in accordance with parental wishes (article 377 - 1 Civil Code).

The mechanism was made more flexible in 2002 and now lets family law judges organize the sharing of parental authority as best suits the educational needs of the child and in accordance with parental wishes.

With this in mind, we suggest that an optimum leave design involves reserved leave for mothers (possibly called Maternity Leave) before the birth and up to around four weeks after it; around two weeks» birth - and - post-birth leave for fathers (possibly called Paternity Leave); and thereafter, Flexible Parental Leave (for a minimum of 12 weeks, with an aspiration of 6 - 9 months or more; well - paid; and with reserved periods for mothers and fathers).

Mums and dads on flexible parental leave will be able to take the leave in turns or together, provided they take no more than 52 weeks combined in total.

A straw poll commissioned by the Fatherhood Institute has revealed overwhelming support for a more flexible version of parental leave.

More flexible working arrangements will be introduced, with unpaid parental leave extended until the child is 16 and different ways to urge employers to act more reasonably on non-medical emergency leave being consideMore flexible working arrangements will be introduced, with unpaid parental leave extended until the child is 16 and different ways to urge employers to act more reasonably on non-medical emergency leave being considemore reasonably on non-medical emergency leave being considered.

The government is not alone in looking for ways to help reconcile the challenges facing working families with young children, with the Liberal Democrats proposing 19 months of more generous parental leave (able to be taken by any parent) and the Conservative Party proposing flexible parental leave to help make Britain more family friendly.

That's more flexible than Fuhu's parental controls on the kid - geared Nabi 2 tablet.

That's more flexible than other purely password - based parental controls.

Liberals: Create a flexible parental benefits plan allowing parents to receive benefits in smaller blocks of time — for example, once every two weeks rather than once per month — and make it possible for parents to take a longer leave — up to 18 months when combined with maternity benefits, although at a lower benefit level; scrap the Universal Child Care Benefit for the wealthiest families, and instead introduce the Canada Child Benefit that will give the majority of families up to $ 2,500 more, tax - free, every year (typically for a family of four).

Effective December 3, 2017, parental EI benefits become more flexible as well.

On April 12, 2018, the British Columbia government granted third reading to Bill 6, Employment Standards Amendment Act, 2018 to better support working families by providing new, extended and more flexible maternity, parental and compassionate care leaves.

Part of the proposal is to make parental leave more equal and flexible — presumably to move away from the perception that mothers will do the majority of the caring.

As well as offering and encouraging men to accept flexible working and equal parental leave, I believe we need more men involved in gender equality.

Through proposals on flexible parental leave the Bill seeks to give parents more choice and flexibility about how they share the care of their child in the first year, enabling both parents to retain a strong link with the labour market.

1 - 4 Current trends include extending the period of available leave (as per recent changes in Canada, where eligible parents can share up to a full year of maternity and parental leave benefits), promoting paternal leave, and adding more flexible options.