Management should also let their employees know about these perks and facilities during the time of hiring and before
the employee takes maternity leave.
Not exact matches
Let's say one of your
employees is
taking maternity leave.
Canada may have a pretty generous policy towards
maternity and parental
leave — especially compared to the U.S. — but many women still encounter significant career setbacks or experience the so - called «motherhood penalty» when they
take time off to have kids, and many employers still wrestle with how to accommodate the disruption of
employees going on
leave.
Employers are also more likely to «top up»
Maternity Pay levels than Paternity or Shared Parental
Leave pay levels, supporting female employees, but not their male colleagues, to take l
Leave pay levels, supporting female
employees, but not their male colleagues, to
take leaveleave.
Employee rights aren't usually affected when they
take maternity, paternity, adoption or parental
leave and some
employees can work up to 10 paid days during their
leave.
It's available to employers to participate, and with companies starting to
take a closer look at paid
maternity leave and other benefits for working parents, Womb might appeal to employers looking to increase retention rates for their
employees.
An
employee may have a broken period of service if, for example, they have
taken leave without pay or
maternity leave.
[An
employee must be eligible to
take Statutory
Maternity Leave (SML) or Statutory Adoption
Leave (SAL), or be entitled to Statutory
Maternity Pay, Statutory Adoption Pay or
Maternity Allowance to be entitled to Shared Parental
Leave.
As this post has often mentioned and as the law has made plain, employers can terminate
employees who
take or are on
maternity or parental
leave.
Therefore, the amendments to the CLC include, among other things, increasing the maximum length of parental
leave to 63 weeks, extending the period prior to the estimated date of birth when the
maternity leave may begin to 13 weeks, and creating
leaves for an
employee to
take care of a critically ill adult family member and a to
take care of a critically ill child.
The aggregate amount of
maternity and parental
leave that may be
taken by one or two
employees with respect to the same birth or adoption must not exceed 78 weeks.
An employer may also give an
employee written notice to
take her
maternity leave if the pregnancy will interfere with her duties, provided it is at least 12 weeks prior to the expected delivery date (s. 49, Employment Standards Code).
Whether it is the personal assistant of a famous TV and radio political talk show host (who was fired on her first day back from
maternity leave), the Pennsylvania bank
employee fired because her employer believed (incorrectly) that she was not planning to return to work after giving birth, or the Georgia warehouse worker fired after her doctor gave her a note restricting her from lifting heavy loads, these stories of women facing harm to their employment situations due to their pregnancies
take place too often.
Eligible
employees who are having a baby have the right to
take up to a year of
maternity leave - no matter how long they have worked for an employer.
The employment discrimination listserv has been engaged in a debate about whether women who
take maternity leave should be entitled to the same seniority count as other
employees.
(i) harassment will no longer have to be «on the ground of» sex, but merely «related to» it; (ii) harassment will apply to a witness of the opposite sex to the recipient of the behaviour; (iii) an employer will be liable for harassment for failing to
take reasonable steps to protect an
employee from repeated harassment by third parties; (iv) pregnancy or
maternity leave discrimination will no longer require a comparator; (vi) it will be contrary to the Act to deprive a woman of non-contractual bonuses in respect of the two - week period of compulsory
maternity leave; and (vii) the same claims of discrimination in relation to terms and conditions of employment will be available in relation to additional
maternity leave as in relation to ordinary
maternity leave.
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