Bill 174 also includes employment standards changes related to
statutory leave periods, which include:
Not exact matches
You can take this
leave only if your child's mother was entitled to maternity
leave and pay, and has now returned to work and stopped claiming any relevant pay, with at least two weeks of unexpired
statutory pay
period remaining.
Statutory paternity
leave will remain at two weeks, but the Government has said it will «keep this under review and look at extending this
period once the economy is in a stronger position».
New entitlements with respect to hours of work, overtime, vacation and public holiday,
statutory leaves, rest
periods, three - hour rules and terminations are all changes in the legislation that managers are going to need to understand in order to effectively supervise staff and avoid costly mistakes or misinterpreting the law which can result in a complaint.
There would also be a consultation on the introduction of a
statutory bereavement
leave period.
In provinces where the
statutory parental
leave does not have to be shared, parents may be able to divide their employment insurance benefits over a longer
period, opening the door for more fathers to take paid
leaves in these jurisdictions.
If employers voluntarily allow employees to take a longer
leave (which of course employers are free to do), they will need to carefully consider how the top - up will work (i.e. will it cover a shorter
period at a higher rate) and who will pay the cost of benefits after the end of the
statutory leave.
Employers should also obtain the consent of their benefit providers for an extension beyond the
period of the
statutory 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.
The policy considerations applied in Machtinger would not be served if the contract were to be interpreted in favour of the employer so as to
leave the individual employee responsible for determining, at the point of termination, whether the
statutory minimum had risen above the notice
period stated in the contract.
The doctrine of special circumstances is of no avail to any of the plaintiffs herein since neither the limitation
period in s. 138.14 nor the
leave requirement in s. 138.8 can be defeated by amending the pleadings to include a
statutory claim under s. 138.3.
An action with respect to this
statutory claim may be commenced only with
leave of the court as prescribed by s. 138.8 and within the limitation
period specified in s. 138.14, that is, three years after the date of the alleged misrepresentations in the instant cases.
Section 28 of the Class Proceedings Act suspends the limitation
period in s. 138.14 of the Ontario Securities Act applicable to a
statutory cause of action under s. 138.3 when the action is commenced, that is, when
leave is granted under s. 138.8.
Leave to appeal has been sought from the Supreme Court of Canada for the trilogy of cases the Ontario Court of Appeal heard last May and ruled on in February regarding
statutory limitation
periods.
The APLR implement a power in the Work and Families Act 2006 incorporated by that Act into the Employment Rights Act 1996 (ERA 1996) which governs entitlement to additional paternity
leave.By the Additional
Statutory Paternity Pay (Weekly Rates) Regulations 2010 (ASLR) the
leave may be paid if it is taken during the mother's maternity pay or allowance pay
period.
Work out your
Statutory Adoption
Leave dates - Ordinary and Additional Adoption
Leave period, notice
period and earliest start date