Marginal note:Entitlement to leave
206.1 (1) Subject to subsections (2) and (3), every employee who has completed six consecutive months of continuous employment with an employer is entitled to and shall be granted a leave of absence from employment of up to thirty-seven weeks to care for a new-born child of the employee or a child who is in the care of the employee for the purpose of adoption under the laws governing adoption in the province in which the employee resides.
Marginal note:Period when leave may be taken
(2) The leave of absence may only be taken during the fifty-two week period beginning
(a) in the case of a new-born child of the employee, at the option of the employee, on the day the child is born or comes into the actual care of the employee; and
(b) in the case of an adoption, on the day the child comes into the actual care of the employee.
Marginal note:Aggregate leave — two employees
(3) The aggregate amount of leave that may be taken by two employees under this section in respect of the same birth or adoption shall not exceed thirty-seven weeks.
- 1993, c. 42, s. 26
- 2000, c. 14, s. 42
- 2002, c. 9, s. 17
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