Maternity or Adoption Leave i) An employee who has been in the employment of the City for a period of at least twenty (20) weeks in the fifty-two (52) weeks immediately preceding the day on which the requested leave is to commence, and who provides Transit Management with a medical certificate from a qualified medical practitioner certifying that she is pregnant and specifying the estimated date of birth, or submit proof of the adoption of a child, shall be entitled, upon written application, to maternity or adoption leave without pay. The request for maternity or adoption leave, indicating the date on which she wishes to commence the leave, together with the required medical certificate, must be submitted not later than four (4) weeks prior to the date on which she wishes to commence leave. The maximum leave to be granted is eighteen (18) weeks and may be apportioned in any combination prior to and after the date of confinement. Where the actual date of the birth is later than the estimated date of the birth, the employee is entitled to not less than six (6) weeks leave after the actual date of birth.
ii) All maternity and adoption leave shall continue for an agreed period of a maximum of eighteen (18) weeks. Employees shall give a minimum of four (4) weeks notice of their intent to return to work. Where the employee and Transit Management agree that the portion of the leave following the actual date of birth, or adoption, should be less than six (6) weeks, then Transit Management may permit the employee to resume her employment at the time agreed provided that, at or before the time the employee resumes her employment, she provides Transit Management with a certificate from a qualified medical practitioner, certifying that resumption of employment at the time so agreed will not in his/her opinion endanger the health of the employee.
iii) Should an employee not return to work within eighteen (18) weeks she shall be deemed to have terminated employment from the City.
iv) Where the pregnancy of an employee would reasonably interfere with the performance of the employee’s duties, the City may require the employee to take a maximum of three (3) months’ leave prior to the estimated date of birth. The onus for establishing that the pregnancy would reasonably interfere with duties shall lie with the City.
v) Employees returning from maternity or adoption leave shall return to their former position with no loss of accrued seniority or benefits (being Medical Plan, Dental Plan, Disability Pl...
Maternity or Adoption Leave. A. Compensated leave for the purposes of childbearing and bonding with the employee’s newborn shall be granted and regarded as sick leave. In the event that sick leave has been exhausted and the health of the mother or child precludes her returning to work, an unpaid leave of absence shall be granted.
B. Similarly, such leave shall be provided for employees for child rearing for an adoption for up to one (1) year. Up to three (3) days shall be provided for meetings with adoption agency officials. Timelines shall be governed by the rules and regulations of the adoption agency.
Maternity or Adoption Leave. Five (5) maternity or adoption leave days will be granted over and above any accumulated sick leave. At the conclusion of the five (5) days, teachers shall use twenty-five (25) accumulated sick leave days for a natural birth or adoption and thirty-five (35) accumulated sick leave days for a cesarean birth. If the employee has used their maternity or adoption days and all of their personal accumulated sick leave days, any remaining days requested up to twenty-five (25) days for a natural birth or thirty-five (35) days for a cesarean birth will be taken from the Sick Leave Bank. Maternity or Adoption Leave is subject to Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA).
Maternity or Adoption Leave. An employee shall be entitled to a parental leave of up to twelve (12) work weeks during the first year after the birth or adoption of a child. This parenta1leave will be charged first to accumulated and earned sick leave and if the accumulated leave time is not sufficient, leave will be charged to accumulated personal and/or unused vacation time. If accumulated time is exhausted, the employee may continue parental leave without pay. The employee's position with the City will be available upon the employee's return.
Maternity or Adoption Leave. (a) An employee shall be excused from work assignment by statute for reasons of maternity or adoption leave of a maximum period of six (6) months or longer if specified by provincial statute.
Maternity or Adoption Leave. A pregnant employee or an adopting parent shall qualify for maternity leave in accordance with the following:
(a) An employee making application not later than four (4) weeks prior to the commencement of the leave of absence shall be granted pre-and post- natal maternity leave not in excess of a total of seventeen (17) weeks.
(b) An employee who adopts a child or children shall be permitted leave of absence, without pay, for a maximum period of seventeen (17) weeks without loss of position or benefits, commencing no later than the date the child or children are placed with the parent. The provisions of Sections 28:01 (d) and (e) below shall apply. The employee shall be required to furnish proof of adoption.
(c) It is incumbent upon the employee to provide evidence of the expected date of confinement at least six (6) weeks in advance. It is also the employee's responsibility to provide written medical evidence of health during pregnancy while still at work, if requested to do so by the Employer.
(d) If the employee returns to work immediately after the expiry of the authorized leave, pursuant to this Article and Article 28:02, they will retain their former position without loss of available benefits. The employee is to provide one (1) month's notice confirming the date of return to work.
(e) The employee shall be deemed to have resigned if an application to return to employment is not made or they do not commence re-employment on the dates agreed in Section (d) above. Resignation will be effective on the scheduled date of return to work under Section (d) above.
(f) Medical complications of pregnancy will be covered by the sick leave provisions while the employee remains at work.
Maternity or Adoption Leave. Female academic staff members who were employed by the University as probationary, continuing or term appointments in the academic year preceding the anticipated birth or adoption of a child shall be granted leave with pay as specified below. The member’s annual remuneration from the University shall not be less or greater than it would have been had there been no leave with pay. Other female academic staff members shall be granted leave in accordance with statutory requirements.
Maternity or Adoption Leave. For the of this Article, parent is defined to include a birth parent, adoptive parent, and a person who is in a relationship of some permanence with a parent of a child and who intends to treat the child as their own.
Maternity or Adoption Leave. Such leave may be granted not to extend beyond the end of the current school year. If the employee is eligible for such leave under the Family Medical Leave Act, any maternity or adoptive leave will be granted under the provisions of the Family Medical Leave Act. Universal days are to be used before sick days.
