Child Care/Adoption Leave. (a) Every employee who has completed six (6) consecutive months of continuous service with the Company is entitled to and shall be granted a leave of absence from employment as follows: (i) where an employee has or will have the actual care and custody of a new-born child, the employee is entitled to and shall be granted a leave of absence of up to twenty-four (24) weeks in the fifty-two (52) week period beginning on the day on which the child is born or the day on which the child comes into the employee’s care; and (ii) where an employee commences legal proceedings under the laws of a province to adopt a child or obtains an order under the laws of a province for the adoption of a child, the employee is entitled to and shall be granted a leave of absence of up to twenty-four (24) weeks in the fifty-two (52) week period beginning on the day on which the child comes into the employee's care. (b) Notwithstanding (a) (i) and (ii) above, the combined amount of leave of absence from employment that may be taken by two (2) employees of the Company under this Clause with respect to the birth or adoption of any one child shall not exceed twenty-four (24) weeks.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement
Child Care/Adoption Leave. (a) Every employee who has completed six (6) consecutive months of continuous service with the Company is entitled to and shall be granted a leave of absence from employment as follows:
(i) where an employee has or will have the actual care and custody of a new-new- born child, the employee is entitled to and shall be granted a leave of absence of up to twenty-four (24) weeks in the fifty-two (52) week period beginning on the day on which the child is born or the day on which the child comes into the employee’s care; and
(ii) where an employee commences legal proceedings under the laws of a province to adopt a child or obtains an order under the laws of a province for the adoption of a child, the employee is entitled to and shall be granted a leave of absence of up to twenty-four (24) weeks in the fifty-two (52) week period beginning on the day on which the child comes into the employee's care.
(b) Notwithstanding (a) (i) and (ii) above, the combined amount of leave of absence from employment that may be taken by two (2) employees of the Company under this Clause with respect to the birth or adoption of any one child shall not exceed twenty-four (24) weeks.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement
