Sentences with phrase «periods of paid parental leave»

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Introduce paid parental leave (90 % of earnings)-- one month for each parent, available fully flexibly and over the maximum possible period of time.

Entitlement to parental leave will increase to 61 weeks (effective December 3, 2017, previously 35 weeks) without pay for employees (birth mothers) who took pregnancy leave and a period of 63 weeks (effective December 3, 2017, previously 37 weeks) without pay for all other eligible employees, and must start within 78 weeks (effective December 3, 2017, previously 52 weeks) of the day on which the child was born or came into the employee's custody, care and control for the first time.

Take up of shared parental leave has been reported to be as low as 2 % nationally, and campaigners and backbench MPs have pressed the government to replace it with an extended period of paid paternity leave, which is common in Scandinavian countries.

Employment Standards staff administer and enforce the Employment Standards Code, which establishes minimum standards of employment for employers and employees in the workplace.This site contains information on the minimum standards of employment for employers and employees, including payment of earnings, minimum wage, hours of work and rest periods, overtime and overtime pay, vacations and vacation pay, general holidays and holiday pay, maternity and parental leave and termination of employment.

With regards to parental leave and wellbeing there are some interesting changes proposed; both Labour and the Liberal Democrats are pushing for an extended period of paid paternity leave, to encourage shared parental responsibilities and perhaps be a positive step towards closing the gender wage gap.

Fundamentally reform the parental leave system to provide for a longer, higher paid period of leave for fathers;

At this time, only employees in federally regulated workplaces and in workplaces in Ontario and Alberta can take advantage of the extended EI parental benefits or family caregiver benefit for adults since these jurisdictions have amended their employment / labour standards legislation to harmonize the leaves with the period allowed for benefits to be paid.

This case is the first challenge to an employer's decision about enhanced pay during a period of shared parental leave.

The policy in place at the relevant time was that mothers were paid at an enhanced rate for up to 26 weeks of shared parental leave, (and at the statutory rate for 13 weeks thereafter) but there was no equivalent benefit for fathers, who were only entitled to statutory shared parental pay for the duration of their period of leave.