Parental/Adoption Leave. (a) A nurse who has been employed for at least thirteen (13) weeks and who is a parent of a child is entitled to parental leave without pay following the birth of the child or the coming of the child into the custody, care and control of a parent for the first time, shall be entitled to thirty-seven (37) weeks (provided the employee did not take pregnancy leave) of parental/adoption leave of absence without pay in accordance with the provisions of the Employment Standards Act of Ontario as may be amended from time to time, except as hereunder set out in this article. (b) A nurse shall advise the Employer in writing five (5) weeks in advance of the date the parental leave is to commence and end. Such leave must commence no later than thirty-five (35) weeks after the child was born or came into the custody, care and control of the parent. (c) The nurse shall re-confirm her intention to return to work or may request changes to the dates originally approved by written notification to be received by the Employer at least four (4) weeks in advance thereof. The nurse shall be reinstated to her former position unless the position has been discontinued in which case she shall be placed in a comparable position. (d) Seniority and service shall continue to accrue during parental and adoption leave however, the nurse will not be paid for named holidays occurring during such leaves of absence. Absence for parental/adoption leave shall be considered as service for the purpose of entitlement to increased vacation and sick leave credits. (e) During the nurse's parental/adoption leave, the nurse shall continue to participate in the Canadian Blood Services Pension Plan and insured benefit plans in which she is enrolled immediately prior to commencing her leave unless she gives the Employer five (5) weeks advance written notice before her leave is to commence that she does not intend to do so. The nurse shall be required to prepay her share of any premiums. (f) A nurse returning from parental/adoption leave shall be paid at the same step in the salary scale that she had attained prior to going on such leave of absence. Should an anniversary increment fall during such leave of absence, the nurse shall receive her anniversary increment upon her return to employment. (g) A nurse newly hired to replace nurses who are on approved parental/adoption leave may be released and such release shall not be the subject of a grievance or arbitration. If retained by the Employer, the nurse shall be credited with seniority from date of hire subject to successfully completing the probationary period.
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Samples: Collective Agreement, Collective Agreement, Collective Agreement
Parental/Adoption Leave. (a) A full-time or regular-part time nurse who has been employed for commenced employment with the Employer at least thirteen (13) weeks and who is a parent before the expected date of delivery or date of custody of a child and is entitled to parental leave without pay following the birth of the child or the coming of the child into the custody, care and control of a parent for the first timeparent, shall be entitled to thirty-thirty seven (37) weeks (provided the employee did not take pregnancy leave) of parental/parental or adoption leave of absence without pay pay, in accordance with the provisions of the Employment Standards Act of Ontario as may be amended from time to timeOntario, except as hereunder set out amended in this articleArticle.
(b) A The nurse shall advise the Employer in writing five seven (57) weeks in advance advance, but not later than two (2) weeks in advance, of the date the parental parental/adoption leave is to commence and end. Such leave must commence no later than thirty-five (35) weeks after the child was born or came into the custody, care and or control of the parent.
(c) The nurse shall re-confirm her intention to return to work or may request changes to the dates originally approved in subsection b) above by written notification to be received by the Employer at least four seven (47) weeks in advance thereof. The nurse shall be reinstated to her former position unless the position has been discontinued in which case she shall be placed in a comparable position.
(d) Seniority A full-time nurse’s seniority, vacation and service sick leave shall continue to accrue during parental and adoption leave howeverleave. However, the nurse will not be paid for named holidays occurring during such leaves of absence. Absence for A regular part-time nurse who is on an approved parental/adoption leave shall be considered as service for accrue seniority while on such leave, calculated on the purpose basis of entitlement to increased vacation and sick averaging her hours over the twenty (20) week period immediately preceding the week in which her leave creditscommences.
(e) During the nurse's parental/parental or adoption leave, the nurse shall continue to participate in the Canadian Blood Services Pension Plan pension plan and insured benefit plans in which (applicable to full-time nurses only) she is enrolled in immediately prior to commencing her leave leave, unless she gives the Employer five seven (57) weeks advance written notice before her leave is to commence that she does not intend to do so. The nurse shall be required to prepay her share of any premiumspremiums and pension contributions.
(f) A nurse returning from parental/adoption leave shall be paid at the same step in the salary scale that she had attained prior to going on such leave of absence. Should an anniversary increment fall during such leave of absence, the nurse shall receive her anniversary increment upon her return to employment.
(g) A nurse newly Nurses hired to replace nurses who are on approved parental/adoption leave leave, may be released and such release shall not be the subject of a grievance or arbitration. If retained by the Employer, the nurse shall be credited with seniority from her date of hire subject to successfully completing the her probationary period.
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Samples: Collective Agreement, Collective Agreement, Collective Agreement
Parental/Adoption Leave. (a) A nurse who has been employed for at least thirteen (13) weeks and who is a parent of a child is entitled to parental leave without pay following the birth of the child or the coming of the child into the custody, care and control of a parent for the first time, shall be entitled to thirtysixty-seven three (3763) weeks (provided the employee did not take pregnancy leave) of parental/adoption leave of absence without pay in accordance with the provisions of the Employment Standards Act of Ontario as may be amended from time to time, except as hereunder set out in this article.
(b) A nurse shall advise the Employer in writing five (5) weeks in advance of the date the parental leave is to commence and end. Such leave must commence no later than thirty-five (35) weeks after the child was born or came into the custody, care and control of the parent.
(c) The nurse shall re-confirm her their intention to return to work or may request changes to the dates originally approved by written notification to be received by the Employer at least four (4) weeks in advance thereof. The nurse shall be reinstated to her their former position unless the position has been discontinued in which case she they shall be placed in a comparable position.
(d) Seniority and service shall continue to accrue during parental and adoption leave however, the nurse will not be paid for named holidays occurring during such leaves of absence. Absence for parental/adoption leave shall be considered as service for the purpose of entitlement to increased vacation and sick leave credits.
(e) During the nurse's parental/adoption leave, the nurse shall continue to participate in the Canadian Blood Services Pension Plan and insured benefit plans in which she is they are enrolled immediately prior to commencing her their leave unless she gives they give the Employer five (5) weeks advance written notice before her their leave is to commence that she does they do not intend to do so. The nurse shall be required to prepay her their share of any premiums.
(f) A nurse returning from parental/adoption leave shall be paid at the same step in the salary scale that she they had attained prior to going on such leave of absence. Should an anniversary increment fall during such leave of absence, the nurse shall receive her their anniversary increment upon her their return to employment.
(g) A nurse newly hired to replace nurses who are on approved parental/adoption leave may be released and such release shall not be the subject of a grievance or arbitration. If retained by the Employer, the nurse shall be credited with seniority from date of hire subject to successfully completing the probationary period.
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Samples: Collective Agreement, Collective Agreement, Collective Agreement
Parental/Adoption Leave. (a) A nurse who has been employed for at least thirteen (13) weeks and who is a parent of a child is entitled to parental leave without pay following the birth of the child or the coming of the child into the custody, care and control of a parent for the first time, shall be entitled to thirty-seven (37) weeks of parental/adoption leave of absence without pay (provided the employee did not take pregnancy leave) of parental/adoption leave of absence without pay in accordance with the provisions of the Employment Standards Act of Ontario as may be amended from time to time, except as hereunder set out in this articleArticle.
(b) A nurse shall advise the Employer in writing five (5) weeks in advance of the date the parental leave is to commence and end. Such leave must commence no later than thirty-five (35) weeks after the child was born or came into the custody, care and control of the parent.
(c) The nurse shall re-confirm her intention to return to work or may request changes to the dates originally approved by written notification to be received by the Employer at least four (4) weeks in advance thereof. The nurse shall be reinstated to her former position unless the position has been discontinued in which case she shall be placed in a comparable position.
(d) Seniority and service shall continue to accrue during parental and adoption leave however, the nurse will not be paid for named holidays occurring during such leaves of absence. Absence for parental/adoption leave shall be considered as service for the purpose of entitlement to increased vacation and sick leave credits.
(e) During the nurse's parental/adoption leave, the nurse shall continue to participate in the Canadian Blood Services Pension Plan and insured benefit plans in which she is enrolled immediately prior to commencing her leave unless she gives the Employer five (5) weeks advance written notice before her leave is to commence that she does not intend to do so. The nurse shall be required to prepay her share of any premiums.
(f) A nurse returning from parental/adoption leave shall be paid at the same step in the salary scale that she had attained prior to going on such leave of absence. Should an anniversary increment fall during such leave of absence, the nurse shall receive her anniversary increment upon her return to employment.
(g) A nurse newly hired to replace nurses who are on approved parental/adoption leave may be released and such release shall not be the subject of a grievance or arbitration. If retained by the Employer, the nurse shall be credited with seniority from date of hire subject to successfully completing the probationary period.
(a) Maternity/Parental/Adoption Supplemental Employment Benefit (SEB)
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Samples: Collective Agreement, Collective Agreement, Collective Agreement
Parental/Adoption Leave. (a) A nurse regular part-time Nurse who has been employed for commenced employment with the Employer at least thirteen (13) weeks and who is a parent before the expected date of delivery or date of custody of a child and is entitled to parental leave without pay following the birth of the child or the coming of the child into the custody, care and control of a parent for the first timeparent, shall be entitled to thirty-seven (37) weeks (provided the employee did not take pregnancy leave) of parental/adoption parental leave of absence without pay in accordance with the provisions of the Employment Standards Act of Ontario as may be amended from time to timeOntario, except as hereunder set out amended in this articleArticle.
(b) A nurse The Nurse shall advise the Employer in writing five four (54) weeks in advance of the date the parental leave is to commence and end. Such leave must commence no later than thirty-five (35) weeks after the child was born or came into the custody, care and control of the parent.
(c) The nurse Nurse shall re-confirm her intention to return to work or may request changes to the dates originally approved in subsection b) above by written notification to be received by the Employer at least four six (46) weeks in advance thereof. The nurse Nurse shall be reinstated to her former position unless the position has been discontinued in which case she shall be placed in a comparable position. If neither is available, the Nurse shall be laid-off in accordance with Article 10.07 of this agreement.
(d) Seniority and service shall continue to accrue during parental and adoption leave. The Nurse will continue to accrue vacation and sick leave howevercredits, the nurse however she will not be paid for named holidays occurring during such leaves of absence. Absence for parental/adoption leave shall be considered as service for the purpose of entitlement to increased vacation and sick leave credits.
(e) During the nurse's Nurse’s parental/adoption leave, the nurse Nurse shall continue to participate in the Canadian Blood Services Pension Plan and insured staff benefit plans in which she is enrolled in immediately prior to commencing her leave unless she gives the Employer five four (54) weeks advance written notice before her leave is to commence that she does not intend to do so. The nurse Nurse shall be required to prepay her share of any premiumspremiums and pension contributions.
(f) A nurse Nurse returning from parental/adoption leave shall be paid at the same step in the salary scale that she had attained prior to going on such leave of absence. Should the Nurse be entitled to an anniversary increment fall during such leave of absence, the nurse Nurse shall receive her anniversary such increment upon her return to employment.
(g) A nurse Nurses newly hired to replace nurses Nurses who are on approved parental/parental/ adoption leave may be released and such release shall not be the subject of a grievance or arbitration. If retained by the Employer, the nurse Nurse shall be credited with seniority from date of hire subject to successfully completing the her probationary period.
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Samples: Collective Agreement, Collective Agreement
Parental/Adoption Leave. (a) A nurse who has been employed for at least thirteen (13) weeks and who is a parent of a child is entitled to parental leave without pay following the birth of the child or the coming of the child into the custody, care and control of a parent for the first time, shall be entitled to thirty-seven (37) weeks of parental/adoption leave of absence without pay (provided the employee did not take pregnancy leave) of parental/adoption leave of absence without pay in accordance with the provisions of the Employment Standards Act of Ontario as may be amended from time to time, except as hereunder set out in this article.
(b) A nurse shall advise the Employer in writing five (5) weeks in advance of the date the parental leave is to commence and end. Such leave must commence no later than thirty-five (35) weeks after the child was born or came into the custody, care and control of the parent.
(c) The nurse shall re-confirm her intention to return to work or may request changes to the dates originally approved by written notification to be received by the Employer at least four (4) weeks in advance thereof. The nurse shall be reinstated to her former position unless the position has been discontinued in which case she shall be placed in a comparable position.
(d) Seniority and service shall continue to accrue during parental and adoption leave however, the nurse will not be paid for named holidays occurring during such leaves of absence. Absence for parental/adoption leave shall be considered as service for the purpose of entitlement to increased vacation and sick leave credits.
(e) During the nurse's parental/adoption leave, the nurse shall continue to participate in the Canadian Blood Services Pension Plan and insured benefit plans in which she is enrolled immediately prior to commencing her leave unless she gives the Employer five (5) weeks advance written notice before her leave is to commence that she does not intend to do so. The nurse shall be required to prepay her share of any premiums.
(f) A nurse returning from parental/adoption leave shall be paid at the same step in the salary scale that she had attained prior to going on such leave of absence. Should an anniversary increment fall during such leave of absence, the nurse shall receive her anniversary increment upon her return to employment.
(g) A nurse newly hired to replace nurses who are on approved parental/adoption leave may be released and such release shall not be the subject of a grievance or arbitration. If retained by the Employer, the nurse shall be credited with seniority from date of hire subject to successfully completing the probationary period.
(a) Maternity/Parental/Adoption Supplemental Employment Benefit (SEB)
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Samples: Collective Agreement, Collective Agreement
Parental/Adoption Leave. (a) A regular part-time nurse who has been employed for commenced employment with the Employer at least thirteen (13) weeks and who is a parent before the expected date of delivery or date of custody of a child and is entitled to parental leave without pay following the birth of the child or the coming of the child into the custody, care and control of a parent for the first timeparent, shall be entitled to thirty-thirty- seven (37) weeks (provided the employee did not take pregnancy leave) of parental/adoption parental leave of absence without pay in accordance with the provisions of the Employment Standards Act of Ontario as may be amended from time to timeOntario, except as hereunder set out amended in this articleArticle.
(b) A The nurse shall advise the Employer in writing five four (54) weeks in advance of the date the parental leave is to commence and end. Such leave must commence no later than thirty-five (35) weeks after the child was born or came into the custody, care and control of the parent.
(c) The nurse shall re-confirm her intention to return to work or may request changes to the dates originally approved in subsection b) above by written notification to be received by the Employer at least four (4) weeks in advance thereof. The nurse shall be reinstated to her former position unless the position has been discontinued in which case she shall be placed in a comparable position. If neither is available, the nurse shall be laid-off in accordance with Article 10.07 of this agreement.
(d) Seniority and service shall continue to accrue during parental and adoption leave. The nurse will continue to accrue vacation and sick leave howevercredits, the nurse however she will not be paid for named holidays occurring during such leaves of absence. Absence for parental/adoption leave shall be considered as service for the purpose of entitlement to increased vacation and sick leave credits.
(e) During the nurse's parental/adoption leave, the nurse shall continue to participate in the Canadian Blood Services Pension Plan and insured staff benefit plans in which she is enrolled in immediately prior to commencing her leave unless she gives the Employer five four (54) weeks advance written notice before her leave is to commence that she does not intend to do so. The nurse shall be required to prepay her share of any premiumspremiums and pension contributions.
(f) A nurse returning from parental/adoption leave shall be paid at the same step in the salary scale that she had attained prior to going on such leave of absence. Should the nurse be entitled to an anniversary increment fall during such leave of absence, the nurse shall receive her anniversary such increment upon her return to employment.
(g) A nurse Nurses newly hired to replace nurses who are on approved parental/parental/ adoption leave may be released and such release shall not be the subject of a grievance or arbitration. If retained by the Employer, the nurse shall be credited with seniority from date of hire subject to successfully completing the her probationary period.
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Samples: Collective Agreement, Collective Agreement
Parental/Adoption Leave. (a) A nurse regular part-time Nurse who has been employed for commenced employment with the Employer at least thirteen (13) weeks and who is a parent before the expected date of delivery or date of custody of a child and is entitled to parental leave without pay following the birth of the child or the coming of the child into the custody, care and control of a parent for the first timeparent, shall be entitled to thirty-thirty- seven (37) weeks (provided the employee did not take pregnancy leave) of parental/adoption parental leave of absence without pay in accordance with the provisions of the Employment Standards Act of Ontario as may be amended from time to timeOntario, except as hereunder set out amended in this articleArticle.
(b) A nurse The Nurse shall advise the Employer in writing five four (54) weeks in advance of the date the parental leave is to commence and end. Such leave must commence no later than thirty-five (35) weeks after the child was born or came into the custody, care and control of the parent.
(c) The nurse Nurse shall re-confirm her intention to return to work or may request changes to the dates originally approved in subsection b) above by written notification to be received by the Employer at least four six (46) weeks in advance thereof. The nurse Nurse shall be reinstated to her former position unless the position has been discontinued in which case she shall be placed in a comparable position. If neither is available, the Nurse shall be laid-off in accordance with Article 10.07 of this agreement.
(d) Seniority and service shall continue to accrue during parental and adoption leave. The Nurse will continue to accrue vacation and sick leave howevercredits, the nurse however she will not be paid for named holidays occurring during such leaves of absence. Absence for parental/adoption leave shall be considered as service for the purpose of entitlement to increased vacation and sick leave credits.
(e) During the nurse's Nurse’s parental/adoption leave, the nurse Nurse shall continue to participate in the Canadian Blood Services Pension Plan and insured staff benefit plans in which she is enrolled in immediately prior to commencing her leave unless she gives the Employer five four (54) weeks advance written notice before her leave is to commence that she does not intend to do so. The nurse Nurse shall be required to prepay her share of any premiumspremiums and pension contributions.
(f) A nurse Nurse returning from parental/adoption leave shall be paid at the same step in the salary scale that she had attained prior to going on such leave of absence. Should the Nurse be entitled to an anniversary increment fall during such leave of absence, the nurse Nurse shall receive her anniversary such increment upon her return to employment.
(g) A nurse Nurses newly hired to replace nurses Nurses who are on approved parental/parental/ adoption leave may be released and such release shall not be the subject of a grievance or arbitration. If retained by the Employer, the nurse Nurse shall be credited with seniority from date of hire subject to successfully completing the her probationary period.
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Samples: Collective Agreement, Collective Agreement
Parental/Adoption Leave. (a) A nurse An Employee who has been employed for at least thirteen (13) weeks and who is becomes a parent of a child is entitled eligible to take a parental leave without pay following the birth of the child or the coming of the child into the custody, care and control of a parent for the first time, shall be entitled to thirty-seven (37) weeks (provided the employee did not take pregnancy leave) of parental/adoption leave of absence without pay in accordance with the provisions of the Employment Standards Act of Ontario as may be amended from time to timeAct, except as hereunder set out where amended in this articleprovision.
(b) A nurse An Employee who has taken a pregnancy leave under Article 11.05 is eligible to be granted a parental leave of up to sixty-one (61) weeks duration, in addition to the pregnancy leave in accordance with the Employment Standards Act, for a total period of up to sixty-three (63) weeks. In such instances, the Employee’s parental leave must begin immediately following the final day of that Employee’s maternity leave. The parties agree that this amendment does not override the Employment Standards Act’s provision regarding cases where the child does not come into the care of the Employee until sometime after the end of the maternity leave. An Employee who is eligible for a parental leave, is entitled to a leave period of up to sixty-one (61) weeks, consideration being given to any requirements of adoption authorities. In cases of adoption, the Employee shall advise the Employer as far in advance as possible with respect to a prospective adoption and shall request the leave of absence, in writing, upon receipt of confirmation of the pending adoption. If, because of late receipt of confirmation of the pending adoption, the Employee finds it impossible to request the leave of absence in writing five (5) weeks the request may be made verbally and subsequently verified in advance of the date the parental leave is to commence and end. Such leave must commence no later than thirty-five (35) weeks after the child was born or came into the custody, care and control of the parentwriting.
(c) The nurse shall re-confirm her intention to return to work or may request changes to the dates originally approved by written notification to be received by the Employer at least four (4) weeks in advance thereof. The nurse Employee shall be reinstated to her former position position, unless the her former position has been discontinued discontinued, in which case she shall be placed in given a comparable positionjob.
(d) Seniority On confirmation by the Employment Insurance Commission of the appropriateness of the Employer's Supplemental Unemployment Benefit (SUB) Plan, an Employee who is on parental leave as provided under this Agreement who has applied for and service is in receipt of Employment Insurance Pregnancy/Parental Benefits pursuant to Section 23 of the Employment Insurance Act, or provincial benefits under a provincial plan, shall be paid a Supplemental Unemployment Benefit. That benefit will be equivalent to the difference between seventy-five percent (75%) of her regular weekly earnings and the sum of her weekly Unemployment Insurance Benefits and any other earnings. The benefit will be equivalent to the difference between seventy-five percent (75%) of her regular weekly earnings and the sum of her weekly Unemployment Insurance Benefits and any other earnings. Such payment shall commence following completion of the one (1) week Employment Insurance waiting period, and receipt by the Employer of the Employee’s Employment Insurance cheque stub as proof that she is in receipt of Employment Insurance Parental Benefits, and shall continue while the Employee is in receipt of such benefits for a maximum period of twelve (12) weeks. The Employee’s regular weekly earnings shall be determined by multiplying her regular hourly earnings on her last day worked prior to the commencement of the leave times her normal weekly hours. The Employer shall continue to accrue during pay the percentage in lieu of benefits for part-time Employees based on the Employee’s normal weekly hours of that portion of the parental and adoption leave howeverfor which SUB payments are being made,
i. e. twelve (12) weeks, the nurse will not be paid for named holidays occurring during such leaves of absence. Absence for parental/adoption leave shall be considered as service for the purpose of entitlement in addition to increased vacation and sick leave creditspension contributions if applicable.
(e) During the nurse's parental/adoption leave, the nurse shall continue to participate in the Canadian Blood Services Pension Plan and insured benefit plans in which she is enrolled immediately prior to commencing her leave unless she gives the Employer five (5) weeks advance written notice before her leave is to commence that she does not intend to do so. The nurse shall be required to prepay her share of any premiums.
(f) A nurse returning from parental/adoption leave shall be paid at the same step in the salary scale that she had attained prior to going on such leave of absence. Should an anniversary increment fall during such leave of absence, the nurse shall receive her anniversary increment upon her return to employment.
(g) A nurse newly hired to replace nurses who are on approved parental/adoption leave may be released and such release shall not be the subject of a grievance or arbitration. If retained by the Employer, the nurse shall be credited with seniority from date of hire subject to successfully completing the probationary period.
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Samples: Collective Agreement, Collective Agreement
Parental/Adoption Leave. (a) A nurse who has been employed Full-Time)
1. The employee shall notify Human Resources, in a written statement, indicating the date that the child is expected to arrive. Application for Parental/Adoption Leave shall be submitted to Human Resources at least thirteen one hundred and twenty (13120) weeks and who is a parent of a child is entitled calendar days prior to parental leave without pay following the birth anticipated arrival of the child child. At the time of application the employee must designate his or her leave intentions.
2. Leave may be taken as follows:
a. If eligible for Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) the coming of the child into the custody, care and control of a parent for the first time, shall employee will be entitled to thirty-seven twelve (3712) weeks (provided of leave as outlined in Article 16, Section C.
b. If the employee did is not take pregnancy leave) of parental/adoption leave of absence without pay in accordance with eligible under the provisions of the Employment Standards Family and Medical Leave Act he or she will be entitled to the same provisions as outlined in Article 16, Section D.
3. At the conclusion of Ontario any Parental/Adoption Leave as outlined in paragraph two (2), the employee may request an unpaid leave up to forty (40) weeks. The employee will be amended from time responsible for maintaining his or her health insurance benefits, if they so desire, by making the appropriate payments to time, except Human Resources as hereunder set out outlined in this articletheir application for Parental/Adoption Leave.
4. An employee who is granted Parental/Adoption Leave in the duration of six (b6) A nurse shall advise the Employer in writing five (5) weeks in advance of the date the parental leave is to commence and end. Such leave must commence no later than thirty-five (35) weeks after the child was born months or came into the custody, care and control of the parent.
(c) The nurse shall re-confirm her intention to return to work or may request changes to the dates originally approved by written notification to be received by the Employer at least four (4) weeks in advance thereof. The nurse less shall be reinstated returned to her former position unless at the position has been discontinued conclusion of the leave. If the leave is in which case she duration of more than six (6) months the employee shall be placed returned to the next available similar and open position in a comparable positionthe Bargaining Unit for which she meets the requirements of the job description.
5. The total amount of Parental/Adoption Leave time shall not exceed one (d1) Seniority and service shall continue to accrue during parental and adoption leave however, the nurse will not be paid for named holidays occurring during such leaves of absence. Absence for parental/adoption leave shall be considered as service for the purpose of entitlement to increased vacation and sick leave creditsyear.
(e) During 6. An employee on Parental/Adoption Leave may return to work prior to the nurse's parental/adoption end of his or her leave, the nurse shall continue provided that a written notice is submitted to participate in the Canadian Blood Services Pension Plan and insured benefit plans in which she is enrolled immediately Human Resources at least three (3) days prior to commencing his or her leave unless she gives the Employer five (5) weeks advance written notice before her leave is to commence that she does not intend to do so. The nurse shall be required to prepay her share of any premiumsreturn date.
(f) A nurse returning from parental/adoption leave shall be paid at the same step in the salary scale that she had attained prior to going on such leave of absence7. Should an anniversary increment fall during such leave of absence, the nurse shall receive her anniversary increment upon her return to employment.
(g) A nurse newly hired to replace nurses who are on approved parental/adoption leave may be released and such release This section shall not be applicable if the subject of child is attending school (except kindergarten). 37 | P a grievance or arbitrationg e
8. If retained by An employee cannot be granted both a maternity and parental leave for the Employer, the nurse shall be credited with seniority from date of hire subject to successfully completing the probationary periodsame child.
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Samples: Extension Agreement, Extension Agreement
Parental/Adoption Leave. (a) A nurse The Employer shall grant to an Employee who becomes a parent, provided the Employee has been employed for in its employ at least thirteen (13) weeks and who is immediately prior to the requested start date of the leave, a parent Parental/Adoption Leave of thirty-five (35) or thirty-seven (37) weeks or such shorter leave as the Employee requests.
(b) A mother requesting a child is entitled to parental Parental Leave must commence the leave without pay on the date following the birth conclusion of her Pregnancy Leave. In the case of adoption, the leave may commence anytime within the thirty-five (35) week period following the child or the coming of the child into the custody, care and control of a parent for the first time, shall be entitled to thirty-seven (37) weeks (provided the employee did not take pregnancy leave) of parental/adoption leave of absence without pay in accordance with the provisions of the Employment Standards Act of Ontario as may be amended from time to time, except as hereunder set out in this article.
(bc) A nurse The other parent requesting a Parental/Adoption Leave may commence that leave anytime within the fifty-two (52) week period following the actual date of birth. The term “other parent” includes the natural father and a person who is in a relationship of some permanence with the mother of the child who intends to treat the child as his or her own.
(d) Requests for Parental/Adoption Leave shall advise the Employer be made in writing five on the Application for Pregnancy/Adoption/Parental Leave Form and submitted to the Executive Superintendent of Human Resource Services or designate as far in advance as possible but in no case any later than two (52) weeks in advance before the requested start date of the leave.
(e) The written request for a Parental/Adoption Leave shall contain:
(i) the commencement date of the parental leave is to commence and end. Such leave must commence no later than thirty-five leave;
(35ii) weeks after the termination date of the leave; and
(iii) the date or expected date of birth of the child was born or came in the case of adoption, the date or expected date of the child coming into the custody, care and control of the parent.
(c) The nurse shall re-confirm her intention to return to work or may request changes to the dates originally approved by written notification to be received by the Employer at least four (4) weeks in advance thereof. The nurse shall be reinstated to her former position unless the position has been discontinued in which case she shall be placed in a comparable position.
(d) Seniority and service shall continue to accrue during parental and adoption leave however, the nurse will not be paid for named holidays occurring during such leaves of absence. Absence for parental/adoption leave shall be considered as service parent for the purpose of entitlement to increased vacation and sick leave credits.
(e) During the nurse's parental/adoption leave, the nurse shall continue to participate in the Canadian Blood Services Pension Plan and insured benefit plans in which she is enrolled immediately prior to commencing her leave unless she gives the Employer five (5) weeks advance written notice before her leave is to commence that she does not intend to do so. The nurse shall be required to prepay her share of any premiumsfirst time.
(f) A nurse returning from parentalParental/adoption leave Adoption Leave shall be paid at the same step in the salary scale that she had attained prior to going on such leave of absence. Should an anniversary increment fall during such leave of absence, the nurse shall receive her anniversary increment upon her return to employmentwithout pay.
(g) A nurse newly hired Notwithstanding Article 22.02 (f), the Employer shall provide for an Employee on Pregnancy Leave a Supplementary Employment Benefit (SEB) Plan approved by Human Resources Development Canada. The plan will pay an amount equal to replace nurses who are on approved parentalthe Employment Insurance rate for the two (2) week waiting period prior to the commencement of the Employment Insurance Pregnancy Leave Benefits.
(h) The duration of the plan referred to in Article 22.02 (g) shall coincide with the term of the Agreement.
(i) The Employer shall continue to pay its normal share of the premiums for such benefits as the Employee is currently enrolled in, for the part of the statutory thirty-five (35) or thirty-seven (37) week Parental/adoption Adoption Leave taken by the Employee.
(j) Except for the Long Term Disability Plan, Employees may opt not to continue benefits during the leave may be released and such release period by providing written notice to the Executive Superintendent of Human Resource Services or designate that they do not intend to pay their share of contributions.
(k) The Cumulative Sick Leave Plan shall not apply during the Parental/Adoption Leave nor shall the current sick leave allowance nor any fraction thereof. Benefits accrued to the commencement of the Parental/Adoption Leave shall be reinstated at the subject agreed upon termination of the Parental/Adoption Leave if the Employee returns to work.
(l) Provided that such alteration does not contravene the provisions of the Act, an Employee may alter the requested date of a grievance Parental/Adoption Leave:
(i) to an earlier date if the Employee gives the Executive Superintendent of Human Resource Services or arbitration. If retained by designate at least two (2) weeks written notice before the Employerearlier start date; or
(ii) to an earlier date if the child comes into custody, care and control of a parent for the nurse shall be credited first time sooner than the expected date and the Employee provides the Executive Superintendent of Human Resource Services or designate with seniority from date of hire subject to successfully completing the probationary period.written notification within two
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Samples: Collective Agreement, Collective Agreement
Parental/Adoption Leave. (a) A nurse The Employer shall grant to an Employee who becomes a parent, provided the Employee has been employed for in its employ at least thirteen (13) weeks and who is immediately prior to the requested start date of the leave, a parent Parental/Adoption Leave of thirty-five (35) or thirty-seven (37) weeks or such shorter leave as the Employee requests.
(b) A mother requesting a child is entitled to parental Parental Leave must commence the leave without pay on the date following the birth conclusion of her Pregnancy Leave. In the case of adoption, the leave may commence anytime within the thirty-five (35) week period following the child or the coming of the child into the custody, care and control of a parent for the first time, shall be entitled to thirty-seven (37) weeks (provided the employee did not take pregnancy leave) of parental/adoption leave of absence without pay in accordance with the provisions of the Employment Standards Act of Ontario as may be amended from time to time, except as hereunder set out in this article.
(bc) A nurse The other parent requesting a Parental/Adoption Leave may commence that leave anytime within the fifty-two (52) week period following the actual date of birth. The term “other parent” includes the natural father and a person who is in a relationship of some permanence with the mother of the child who intends to treat the child as his or her own.
(d) Requests for Parental/Adoption Leave shall advise the Employer be made in writing five on the Application for Pregnancy/Adoption/Parental Leave Form and submitted to the Executive Superintendent of Human Resource Services or designate as far in advance as possible but in no case any later than two (52) weeks in advance before the requested start date of the leave.
(e) The written request for a Parental/Adoption Leave shall contain:
(i) the commencement date of the parental leave is to commence and end. Such leave must commence no later than thirty-five leave;
(35ii) weeks after the termination date of the leave; and
(iii) the date or expected date of birth of the child was born or came in the case of adoption, the date or expected date of the child coming into the custody, care and control of the parentparent for the first time.
(cf) A Parental/Adoption Leave shall be without pay.
(g) Notwithstanding Article 22.02 (f), the Employer shall provide for an Employee on Pregnancy Leave a Supplementary Employment Benefit (SEB) Plan approved by Human Resources Development Canada. The plan will pay an amount equal to the Employment Insurance rate for the two (2) week waiting period prior to the commencement of the Employment Insurance Pregnancy Leave Benefits.
(h) The nurse duration of the plan referred to in Article 22.02 (g) shall recoincide with the term of the Agreement.
(i) The Employer shall continue to pay its normal share of the premiums for such benefits as the Employee is currently enrolled in, for the part of the statutory thirty-confirm her intention five (35) or thirty-seven (37) week Parental/Adoption Leave taken by the Employee.
(j) Except for the Long Term Disability Plan, Employees may opt not to return to work or may request changes continue benefits during the leave period by providing written notice to the dates originally approved by Executive Superintendent of Human Resource Services or designate that they do not intend to pay their share of contributions.
(k) The Cumulative Sick Leave Plan shall not apply during the Parental/Adoption Leave nor shall the current sick leave allowance nor any fraction thereof. Benefits accrued to the commencement of the Parental/Adoption Leave shall be reinstated at the agreed upon termination of the Parental/Adoption Leave if the Employee returns to work.
(l) Provided that such alteration does not contravene the provisions of the Act, an Employee may alter the requested date of a Parental/Adoption Leave:
(i) to an earlier date if the Employee gives the Executive Superintendent of Human Resource Services or designate at least two (2) weeks written notice before the earlier start date; or
(ii) to an earlier date if the child comes into custody, care and control of a parent for the first time sooner than the expected date and the Employee provides the Executive Superintendent of Human Resource Services or designate with written notification within two (2) weeks after the Employee starts the leave; or
(iii) to be received by a later date if the Employer Employee gives the Executive Superintendent of Human Resource Services or designate at least two (2) weeks written notice before the date the leave was to begin.
(m) An Employee may alter the requested termination date of a Parental/Adoption Leave:
(i) to an earlier date if the Employee gives the Executive Superintendent of Human Resource Services or designate at least four (4) weeks in advance thereof. The nurse written notice before the leave was to end and the earlier date does not contravene the provisions of the Employment Standards Act; or
(ii) to a later date if the Employee gives the Executive Superintendent of Human Resource Services or designate at least four (4) weeks written notice before the leave was to end and the later date does not contravene the provisions of the Employment Standards Act.
(n) An Employee returning from a Parental/Adoption Leave shall be reinstated return to her former the position most recently held, unless the position has Employee would otherwise have been discontinued declared surplus or redundant to the system in which case she the provisions of Articles 8 and 9 (Lay Off And Redundancy and Recall From Lay Off) shall be placed in a comparable positionapply.
(do) Extended leaves may be requested in writing by Employees who are on or will be on a Parental Leave. These are leaves that continue beyond the statutory thirty-five (35) or thirty-seven (37) week Parental/Adoption Leave period and may be granted by the Executive Superintendent of Human Resource Services or designate on the basis of the mutual consent of the Employee and the Employer but shall not exceed one (1) year.
(p) Employees who extend a leave under Article 22.02 (o) beyond the statutory limits for Pregnancy/Parental/Adoption Leaves shall maintain the level of benefit coverage that was established during the statutory leave period at their own expense for the duration of the extended leave.
(q) Seniority and service shall continue to accrue during parental and adoption leave however, the nurse will not be paid for named holidays occurring during such leaves of absence. Absence for parental/adoption leave shall be considered as service for the purpose Period of entitlement the Parental/Adoption Leave up to increased vacation and sick leave creditsa period of twenty-four (24) months.
(e) During the nurse's parental/adoption leave, the nurse shall continue to participate in the Canadian Blood Services Pension Plan and insured benefit plans in which she is enrolled immediately prior to commencing her leave unless she gives the Employer five (5) weeks advance written notice before her leave is to commence that she does not intend to do so. The nurse shall be required to prepay her share of any premiums.
(f) A nurse returning from parental/adoption leave shall be paid at the same step in the salary scale that she had attained prior to going on such leave of absence. Should an anniversary increment fall during such leave of absence, the nurse shall receive her anniversary increment upon her return to employment.
(g) A nurse newly hired to replace nurses who are on approved parental/adoption leave may be released and such release shall not be the subject of a grievance or arbitration. If retained by the Employer, the nurse shall be credited with seniority from date of hire subject to successfully completing the probationary period.
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Samples: Collective Agreement, Collective Agreement
Parental/Adoption Leave. (a) A nurse An Employee who has been employed for at least thirteen (13) weeks and who is becomes a parent of a child is entitled eligible to take a parental leave without pay following the birth of the child or the coming of the child into the custody, care and control of a parent for the first time, shall be entitled to thirty-seven (37) weeks (provided the employee did not take pregnancy leave) of parental/adoption leave of absence without pay in accordance with the provisions of the Employment Standards Act of Ontario as may be amended from time to timeAct, except as hereunder set out where amended in this articleprovision.
(b) A nurse An Employee who has taken a pregnancy leave under Article 11.05 is eligible to be granted a parental leave of up to sixty-one (61) weeks duration, in addition to the pregnancy leave in accordance with the Employment Standards Act, for a total period of up to sixty-three (63) weeks. In such instances, the Employee’s parental leave must begin immediately following the final day of that Employee’s maternity leave. The parties agree that this amendment does not override the Employment Standards Act’s provision regarding cases where the child does not come into the care of the Employee until sometime after the end of the maternity leave. An Employee who is eligible for a parental leave, is entitled to a leave period of up to sixty-one (61) weeks, consideration being given to any requirements of adoption authorities. In cases of adoption, the Employee shall advise the Employer as far in advance as possible with respect to a prospective adoption and shall request the leave of absence, in writing, upon receipt of confirmation of the pending adoption. If, because of late receipt of confirmation of the pending adoption, the Employee finds it impossible to request the leave of absence in writing five (5) weeks the request may be made verbally and subsequently verified in advance of the date the parental leave is to commence and end. Such leave must commence no later than thirty-five (35) weeks after the child was born or came into the custody, care and control of the parentwriting.
(c) The nurse shall re-confirm her intention to return to work or may request changes to the dates originally approved by written notification to be received by the Employer at least four (4) weeks in advance thereof. The nurse Employee shall be reinstated to her their former position position, unless the their former position has been discontinued discontinued, in which case she they shall be placed in given a comparable positionjob.
(d) Seniority On confirmation by the Employment Insurance Commission of the appropriateness of the Employer's Supplemental Unemployment Benefit (SUB) Plan, an Employee who is on parental leave as provided under this Agreement who has applied for and service is in receipt of Employment Insurance Pregnancy/Parental Benefits pursuant to Section 23 of the Employment Insurance Act, or provincial benefits under a provincial plan, shall be paid a Supplemental Unemployment Benefit. That benefit will be equivalent to the difference between seventy-five percent (75%) of their regular weekly earnings and the sum of their weekly Unemployment Insurance Benefits and any other earnings. The benefit will be equivalent to the difference between seventy-five percent (75%) of their regular weekly earnings and the sum of their weekly Unemployment Insurance Benefits and any other earnings. Such payment shall commence following completion of the one (1) week Employment Insurance waiting period, and receipt by the Employer of the Employee’s Employment Insurance cheque stub as proof that they are in receipt of Employment Insurance Parental Benefits, and shall continue while the Employee is in receipt of such benefits for a maximum period of twelve (12) weeks. The Employee’s regular weekly earnings shall be determined by multiplying their regular hourly earnings on their last day worked prior to the commencement of the leave times their normal weekly hours. The normal weekly hours for a part-time employee shall be calculated by using the same time period used for calculation of the Employment Insurance benefit. The Employer shall continue to accrue during pay the percentage in lieu of benefits for part-time Employees based on the Employee’s normal weekly hours of that portion of the parental and adoption leave howeverfor which SUB payments are being made, the nurse will not be paid for named holidays occurring during such leaves of absence. Absence for parental/adoption leave shall be considered as service for the purpose of entitlement i.e. twelve (12) weeks, in addition to increased vacation and sick leave creditspension contributions if applicable.
(e) During the nurse's parental/adoption leave, the nurse shall continue to participate in the Canadian Blood Services Pension Plan and insured benefit plans in which she is enrolled immediately prior to commencing her leave unless she gives the Employer five (5) weeks advance written notice before her leave is to commence that she does not intend to do so. The nurse shall be required to prepay her share of any premiums.
(f) A nurse returning from parental/adoption leave shall be paid at the same step in the salary scale that she had attained prior to going on such leave of absence. Should an anniversary increment fall during such leave of absence, the nurse shall receive her anniversary increment upon her return to employment.
(g) A nurse newly hired to replace nurses who are on approved parental/adoption leave may be released and such release shall not be the subject of a grievance or arbitration. If retained by the Employer, the nurse shall be credited with seniority from date of hire subject to successfully completing the probationary period.
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Samples: Collective Agreement, Collective Agreement
Parental/Adoption Leave. (a) A nurse The Employer shall grant to an Employee who becomes a parent, provided the Employee has been employed for in its employ at least thirteen (13) weeks and who is immediately prior to the requested start date of the leave, a parent Parental/Adoption Leave of thirty-five (35) or thirty-seven (37) weeks or such shorter leave as the Employee requests.
(b) A mother requesting a child is entitled to parental Parental Leave must commence the leave without pay on the date following the birth conclusion of her Pregnancy Leave. In the case of adoption, the leave may commence anytime within the thirty-five (35) week period following the child or the coming of the child into the custody, care and control of a parent for the first time, shall be entitled to thirty-seven (37) weeks (provided the employee did not take pregnancy leave) of parental/adoption leave of absence without pay in accordance with the provisions of the Employment Standards Act of Ontario as may be amended from time to time, except as hereunder set out in this article.
(bc) A nurse shall advise The other parent requesting a Parental/Adoption Leave may commence that leave anytime within the Employer in writing five (5) weeks in advance of the date the parental leave is to commence and end. Such leave must commence no later than thirty-five (35) weeks after week period following the actual date of birth. The term “other parent” includes the natural father and a person who is in a relationship of some permanence with the mother of the child was born who intends to treat the child as his or came her own.
(d) Requests for Parental/Adoption Leave shall be made in writing on the Application for Pregnancy/Adoption/Parental Leave Form and submitted to the Executive Superintendent of Human Resource Services or designate as far in advance as possible but in no case any later than two (2) weeks before the requested start date of the leave.
(e) The written request for a Parental/Adoption Leave shall contain:
(i) the commencement date of the leave;
(ii) the termination date of the leave; and
(iii) the date or expected date of birth of the child or in the case of adoption, the date or expected date of the child coming into the custody, care and control of the parent.
(c) The nurse shall re-confirm her intention to return to work or may request changes to the dates originally approved by written notification to be received by the Employer at least four (4) weeks in advance thereof. The nurse shall be reinstated to her former position unless the position has been discontinued in which case she shall be placed in a comparable position.
(d) Seniority and service shall continue to accrue during parental and adoption leave however, the nurse will not be paid for named holidays occurring during such leaves of absence. Absence for parental/adoption leave shall be considered as service parent for the purpose of entitlement to increased vacation and sick leave credits.
(e) During the nurse's parental/adoption leave, the nurse shall continue to participate in the Canadian Blood Services Pension Plan and insured benefit plans in which she is enrolled immediately prior to commencing her leave unless she gives the Employer five (5) weeks advance written notice before her leave is to commence that she does not intend to do so. The nurse shall be required to prepay her share of any premiumsfirst time.
(f) A nurse returning from parentalParental/adoption leave Adoption Leave shall be paid at the same step in the salary scale that she had attained prior to going on such leave of absence. Should an anniversary increment fall during such leave of absence, the nurse shall receive her anniversary increment upon her return to employmentwithout pay.
(g) A nurse newly hired Notwithstanding Article 22.02 (f), the Employer shall provide for an Employee on Pregnancy Leave a Supplementary Employment Benefit (SEB) Plan approved by Human Resources Development Canada. The plan will pay an amount equal to replace nurses who are on approved parentalthe Employment Insurance rate for the two (2) week waiting period prior to the commencement of the Employment Insurance Pregnancy Leave Benefits.
(h) The duration of the plan referred to in Article 22.02 (g) shall coincide with the term of the Agreement.
(i) The Employer shall continue to pay its normal share of the premiums for such benefits as the Employee is currently enrolled in, for the part of the statutory thirty-five (35) or thirty-seven (37) week Parental/adoption Adoption Leave taken by the Employee.
(j) Except for the Long Term Disability Plan, Employees may opt not to continue benefits during the leave may be released and such release period by providing written notice to the Executive Superintendent of Human Resource Services or designate that they do not intend to pay their share of contributions.
(k) The Cumulative Sick Leave Plan shall not apply during the Parental/Adoption Leave nor shall the current sick leave allowance nor any fraction thereof. Benefits accrued to the commencement of the Parental/Adoption Leave shall be reinstated at the subject agreed upon termination of the Parental/Adoption Leave if the Employee returns to work.
(l) Provided that such alteration does not contravene the provisions of the Act, an Employee may alter the requested date of a grievance Parental/Adoption Leave:
(i) to an earlier date if the Employee gives the Executive Superintendent of Human Resource Services or arbitration. If retained by designate at least two (2) weeks written notice before the Employerearlier start date; or
(ii) to an earlier date if the child comes into custody, care and control of a parent for the nurse shall be credited first time sooner than the expected date and the Employee provides the Executive Superintendent of Human Resource Services or designate with seniority from date of hire subject to successfully completing the probationary period.written notification within two
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Samples: Collective Agreement, Collective Agreement
Parental/Adoption Leave. (a) A nurse The Employer shall grant to an Employee who becomes a parent, provided the Employee has been employed for in its employ at least thirteen (13) weeks and who is immediately prior to the requested start date of the leave, a parent Parental/Adoption Leave of thirty-five (35) or thirty-seven (37) weeks or such shorter leave as the Employee requests.
(b) A mother requesting a child is entitled to parental Parental Leave must commence the leave without pay on the date following the birth conclusion of her Pregnancy Leave. In the case of adoption, the leave may commence anytime within the thirty-five (35) week period following the child or the coming of the child into the custody, care and control of a parent for the first time, shall be entitled to thirty-seven (37) weeks (provided the employee did not take pregnancy leave) of parental/adoption leave of absence without pay in accordance with the provisions of the Employment Standards Act of Ontario as may be amended from time to time, except as hereunder set out in this article.
(bc) A nurse The other parent requesting a Parental/Adoption Leave may commence that leave anytime within the fifty-two (52) week period following the actual date of birth. The term “other parent” includes the natural father and a person who is in a relationship of some permanence with the mother of the child who intends to treat the child as his or her own.
(d) Requests for Parental/Adoption Leave shall advise the Employer be made in writing five on the Application for Pregnancy/Adoption/Parental Leave Form and submitted to the Executive Superintendent of Human Resource Services or designate as far in advance as possible but in no case any later than two (52) weeks in advance before the requested start date of the leave.
(e) The written request for a Parental/Adoption Leave shall contain:
(i) the commencement date of the parental leave is to commence and end. Such leave must commence no later than thirty-five leave;
(35ii) weeks after the termination date of the leave; and
(iii) the date or expected date of birth of the child was born or came in the case of adoption, the date or expected date of the child coming into the custody, care and control of the parentparent for the first time.
(cf) A Parental/Adoption Leave shall be without pay.
(g) Notwithstanding Article 22.02 (f), the Employer shall provide for an Employee on Pregnancy Leave a Supplementary Employment Benefit (SEB) Plan approved by Human Resources Development Canada. The plan will pay an amount equal to the Employment Insurance rate for the two (2) week waiting period prior to the commencement of the Employment Insurance Pregnancy Leave Benefits.
(h) The nurse duration of the plan referred to in Article 22.02 (g) shall recoincide with the term of the Agreement.
(i) The Employer shall continue to pay its normal share of the premiums for such benefits as the Employee is currently enrolled in, for the part of the statutory thirty-confirm her intention five (35) or thirty-seven (37) week Parental/Adoption Leave taken by the Employee.
(j) Except for the Long Term Disability Plan, Employees may opt not to return to work or may request changes continue benefits during the leave period by providing written notice to the dates originally approved by Executive Superintendent of Human Resource Services or designate that they do not intend to pay their share of contributions.
(k) The Cumulative Sick Leave Plan shall not apply during the Parental/Adoption Leave nor shall the current sick leave allowance nor any fraction thereof. Benefits accrued to the commencement of the Parental/Adoption Leave shall be reinstated at the agreed upon termination of the Parental/Adoption Leave if the Employee returns to work.
(l) Provided that such alteration does not contravene the provisions of the Act, an Employee may alter the requested date of a Parental/Adoption Leave:
(i) to an earlier date if the Employee gives the Executive Superintendent of Human Resource Services or designate at least two (2) weeks written notice before the earlier start date; or
(ii) to an earlier date if the child comes into custody, care and control of a parent for the first time sooner than the expected date and the Employee provides the Executive Superintendent of Human Resource Services or designate with written notification within two (2) weeks after the Employee starts the leave; or
(iii) to be received by a later date if the Employer Employee gives the Executive Superintendent of Human Resource Services or designate at least two (2) weeks written notice before the date the leave was to begin.
(m) An Employee may alter the requested termination date of a Parental/Adoption Leave:
(i) to an earlier date if the Employee gives the Executive Superintendent of Human Resource Services or designate at least four (4) weeks in advance thereof. The nurse written notice before the leave was to end and the earlier date does not contravene the provisions of the Employment Standards Act; or
(ii) to a later date if the Employee gives the Executive Superintendent of Human Resource Services or designate at least four (4) weeks written notice before the leave was to end and the later date does not contravene the provisions of the Employment Standards Act.
(n) An Employee returning from a Parental/Adoption Leave shall be reinstated return to her former the position most recently held, unless the position has Employee would otherwise have been discontinued declared surplus or redundant to the system in which case she the provisions of Articles 8 & 9 (Surplus/Lay-off Procedure and Recall From Lay-Off) shall be placed in a comparable positionapply.
(do) Extended leaves may be requested in writing by Employees who are on or will be on a Parental Leave. These are leaves that continue beyond the statutory thirty- five (35) or thirty-seven (37) week Parental/Adoption Leave period and may be granted by the Executive Superintendent of Human Resource Services or designate on the basis of the mutual consent of the Employee and the Employer but shall not exceed one (1) year.
(p) Employees who extend a leave under Article 22.02 (o) beyond the statutory limits for Pregnancy/Parental/Adoption Leaves shall maintain the level of benefit coverage that was established during the statutory leave period at their own expense for the duration of the extended leave.
(q) Seniority and service shall continue to accrue during parental and adoption leave however, the nurse will not be paid for named holidays occurring during such leaves of absence. Absence for parental/adoption leave shall be considered as service for the purpose Period of entitlement the Parental/Adoption Leave up to increased vacation and sick leave creditsa period of twenty-four (24) months.
(e) During the nurse's parental/adoption leave, the nurse shall continue to participate in the Canadian Blood Services Pension Plan and insured benefit plans in which she is enrolled immediately prior to commencing her leave unless she gives the Employer five (5) weeks advance written notice before her leave is to commence that she does not intend to do so. The nurse shall be required to prepay her share of any premiums.
(f) A nurse returning from parental/adoption leave shall be paid at the same step in the salary scale that she had attained prior to going on such leave of absence. Should an anniversary increment fall during such leave of absence, the nurse shall receive her anniversary increment upon her return to employment.
(g) A nurse newly hired to replace nurses who are on approved parental/adoption leave may be released and such release shall not be the subject of a grievance or arbitration. If retained by the Employer, the nurse shall be credited with seniority from date of hire subject to successfully completing the probationary period.
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Samples: Collective Agreement, Collective Agreement
Parental/Adoption Leave. (a) A nurse who has been employed for at least thirteen (13) weeks and The Company shall grant a Parental/Adoption leave without pay to an Employee pursuant to the Employment Standards Act. Parental/Adoption leave of absence applies to an Employee who is a natural or other new parent and who has completed their probationary period prior to the date that the leave is expected to commence. A “parent” is a man or woman who: · Is the natural parent of a child; · Adopts a child is entitled to parental · Becomes a step-parent Parental/Adoption leave without pay following the birth of the child or the coming of the child into the custody, care and control of a parent for the first time, shall be entitled to thirty-seven (37) weeks (provided the employee did not take pregnancy leave) of parental/adoption leave of absence without pay in accordance with the provisions of the Employment Standards Act of Ontario as may be amended from time to time, except as hereunder set out in this article.
(b) A nurse shall advise the Employer in writing five (5) weeks in advance of the date the parental leave is to commence and end. Such leave must commence no later than fifty-two (52) weeks after the baby is born or the child first comes into a parent’s custody, care or control. Parental leave must be taken all at one time and can last for a maximum duration of thirty-five (35) weeks in the case of birth mothers who take pregnancy leave or thirty- seven (37) weeks for all other new parents. For the purpose of adoption leave, an Employee must advise the Company in writing of his or her acceptance by the appropriate agency as an adoptive parent within thirty (30) days of such notification of acceptance. Supporting documentation must accompany all requests. All other parental leaves must provide written notice at least two (2) weeks prior to commencement of the leave. An Employee shall be granted three (3) working days leave without pay to attend the needs directly after the child was born or came into the custody, care and control receipt of the parent.
(c) a child. The nurse shall re-confirm her intention to return to work or may request changes to the dates originally approved by written notification to be received by Employee must give the Employer at least a minimum of four (4) weeks in advance thereofwritten notice if he or she wishes to return early from the parental leave. The nurse shall be reinstated to her former position unless the position has been discontinued in which case she shall be placed in a comparable position.
(d) Seniority and service shall continue to accrue during parental and adoption leave howeverAll benefits coverage, the nurse will not be paid for named holidays occurring during such leaves of absence. Absence for parental/adoption leave shall be considered as well as continuous service for the purpose of entitlement to increased vacation credit accrual, pension, severance (where applicable) and sick leave credits.
(e) During the nurse's parentalaccrual of seniority, shall be maintained while Employees are on Parental/adoption leaveAdoption Leave. Upon an Employee’s return from Parental/Adoption Leave, the nurse shall continue Employee will be returned to participate in their former position or be given a comparable position with comparable wages and benefits. If the Canadian Blood Services Pension Plan and insured benefit plans in which she is enrolled immediately prior Employee does not return from parental leave on the expected return to commencing her leave unless she gives work day, the Employer five (5) weeks advance written notice before her leave is to commence that she does not intend to do so. The nurse shall be required to prepay her share notify the Employee of any premiums.
(f) A nurse returning from parental/adoption leave shall be paid at the same step in date of the salary scale that she had attained prior to going on such leave end of absence. Should an anniversary increment fall during such leave the Leave of absence, Absence and the nurse shall receive her anniversary increment upon her expected date of return to employmentwork.
(g) A nurse newly hired to replace nurses who are on approved parental/adoption leave may be released and such release shall not be the subject of a grievance or arbitration. If retained by the Employer, the nurse shall be credited with seniority from date of hire subject to successfully completing the probationary period.
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Samples: Collective Agreement
Parental/Adoption Leave. (a) A nurse i. An Employee who becomes a parent, and who has been employed for at least thirteen (13) weeks and who is a parent immediately preceding the date of a child is entitled to parental leave without pay following the birth of the child or the coming date the child first came into care or custody of the child into the custody, care and control of a parent for the first timeEmployee, shall be entitled to thirtyparental leave.
ii. A "parent” includes: the natural mother or father of the child, a person with whom a child is placed for adoption and a person who is in a relationship with the parent of the child and who intends to treat the child as their own.
iii. Parental leave must begin within fifty-seven two (3752) weeks (provided the employee did not take pregnancy leave) of parental/adoption leave of absence without pay in accordance with the provisions of the Employment Standards Act birth of Ontario as may be amended from time to time, except as hereunder set out in this article.
the child or within fifty-two (b) A nurse shall advise the Employer in writing five (552) weeks in advance of the date the parental leave is to commence and end. Such leave must commence no later than thirty-five (35) weeks after day the child was born or first came into the custody, care and control of the parent. For Employees on pregnancy leave, parental leave must begin immediately after the pregnancy leave expires. Parental leave shall be granted for up to thirty-five (35) weeks in duration if the Employee also took pregnancy leave and up to thirty-seven (37) weeks in duration if they did not.
iv. The Employee shall give the Employer two (c2) weeks’ notice, in writing, of the commencement of Parental or Adoption Leave of absence unless, in the case of Adoption Leave, they are prevented from doing so by reason of the child coming under the care earlier than expected.
v. During the period of leave, the Employee may continue benefit coverage, provided the carrier permits, and benefit premiums during this period shall be paid in the same manner as previous to this leave.
vi. An Employee who intends to resume her employment on the expiration of the leave of absence granted to her under this Article shall so advise the Employer two (2) weeks prior to the end of her leave. The nurse shall re-confirm Employee will be returned to her intention former job if it still exists, or to a comparable job in the event that her former job has been eliminated. An Employee who wishes to change her return to work or may request changes to the dates originally approved by written notification to be received by date must give the Employer at least four (4) weeks in advance thereof. The nurse shall be reinstated to her former position unless the position has been discontinued in which case she shall be placed in a comparable positionweeks’ written notice.
(d) Seniority and service shall continue to accrue during parental and adoption leave however, the nurse will not be paid vii. Credits for named holidays occurring during such leaves of absence. Absence for parental/adoption leave shall be considered as service for the purpose of salary increments, vacations or any other benefit included and prescribed under the Employment Standards Act, Ontario shall continue, and seniority shall accumulate during the leave. Vacation entitlement may be added to increased vacation and sick leave credits.
(e) During the nurse's parental/adoption leavepregnancy, the nurse shall continue to participate in the Canadian Blood Services Pension Plan and insured benefit plans in which she is enrolled immediately prior to commencing her leave unless she gives the Employer five (5) weeks advance written notice before her leave is to commence that she does not intend to do so. The nurse shall be required to prepay her share of any premiums.
(f) A nurse returning from parental/parental or adoption leave shall be paid at if the same step Employee so requests in the salary scale that she had attained prior to going on such leave of absence. Should an anniversary increment fall during such leave of absence, the nurse shall receive her anniversary increment upon her return to employment.
(g) A nurse newly hired to replace nurses who are on approved parental/adoption leave may be released advance and such release shall not be the subject of a grievance or arbitration. If retained by the Employer, the nurse shall be credited with seniority from date of hire subject to successfully completing the probationary periodrequest is approved in advance and in writing.
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Samples: Collective Agreement
Parental/Adoption Leave. (a) A nurse who has been employed for at least thirteen (13) weeks and The Company shall grant a Parental/Adoption leave without pay to an Employee pursuant to the Employment Standards Act. Parental/Adoption leave of absence applies to an Employee who is a natural or other new parent and who has completed their probationary period prior to the date that the leave is expected to commence. A“parent” is a man or woman who: · Is the natural parent of a child; · Adopts a child · Becomes a step-parent Parental/Adoption leave may commence no later than fifty-two (52) weeks after the baby is entitled to parental leave without pay following the birth of born or the child or the coming of the child first comes into the a parent's custody, care or control. Parental leave must be taken all at one time and control can last for a maximum duration of a parent for thirty-five (35) weeks in the first time, shall be entitled to case of birth mothers who take pregnancy leave or thirty-seven (37) weeks for all other new parents. For the purpose of adoption leave, an Employee must advise the Company in writing of his acceptance by the appropriate agency as an adoptive parent within thirty (provided 30) days of such notification of acceptance. Supporting documentation must accompany all requests. All other parental leaves must provide written notice at least two (2) weeks prior to commencement of the employee did not take pregnancy leave. An Employee shall be granted three (3) of parental/adoption working days leave of absence without pay in accordance with to attend the provisions needs directly after the receipt of the Employment Standards Act of Ontario as may be amended from time to time, except as hereunder set out in this article.
(b) A nurse shall advise a child. The Employee must give the Employer in writing five (5) weeks in advance a minimum of the date the parental leave is to commence and end. Such leave must commence no later than thirty-five (35) weeks after the child was born or came into the custody, care and control of the parent.
(c) The nurse shall re-confirm her intention to return to work or may request changes to the dates originally approved by written notification to be received by the Employer at least four (4) weeks in advance thereofwritten notice if he or she wishes to return early from the parental leave. The nurse shall be reinstated to her former position unless the position has been discontinued in which case she shall be placed in a comparable position.
(d) Seniority and service shall continue to accrue during parental and adoption leave howeverAll benefits coverage, the nurse will not be paid for named holidays occurring during such leaves of absence. Absence for parental/adoption leave shall be considered as well as continuous service for the purpose of entitlement to increased vacation credit accrual, pension, severance (where applicable) and sick leave credits.
(e) During the nurseaccrual of seniority, shall be maintained while Employees are on Parental/Adoption Leave. Upon an Employee's parentalreturn from Parental/adoption leaveAdoption Leave, the nurse shall continue Employee will be returned to participate in their former position or be given a comparable position with comparable wages and benefits. If the Canadian Blood Services Pension Plan and insured benefit plans in which she is enrolled immediately prior Employee does not return from parental leave on the expected return to commencing her leave unless she gives work day, the Employer five (5) weeks advance written notice before her leave is to commence that she does not intend to do so. The nurse shall be required to prepay her share notify the Employee of any premiums.
(f) A nurse returning from parental/adoption leave shall be paid at the same step in date of the salary scale that she had attained prior to going on such leave end of absence. Should an anniversary increment fall during such leave the Leave of absence, Absence and the nurse shall receive her anniversary increment upon her expected date of return to employmentwork.
(g) A nurse newly hired to replace nurses who are on approved parental/adoption leave may be released and such release shall not be the subject of a grievance or arbitration. If retained by the Employer, the nurse shall be credited with seniority from date of hire subject to successfully completing the probationary period.
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Samples: Collective Agreement
Parental/Adoption Leave. (a) A nurse The Employer shall grant to an Employee who becomes a parent, provided the Employee has been employed for in its employ at least thirteen (13) weeks and who is immediately prior to the requested start date of the leave, a parent Parental/Adoption Leave of thirty-five (35) or thirty-seven (37) weeks or such shorter leave as the Employee requests.
(b) A mother requesting a child is entitled to parental Parental Leave must commence the leave without pay on the date following the birth conclusion of her Pregnancy Leave. In the case of adoption, the leave may commence anytime within the thirty-five (35) week period following the child or the coming of the child into the custody, care and control of a parent for the first time, shall be entitled to thirty-seven (37) weeks (provided the employee did not take pregnancy leave) of parental/adoption leave of absence without pay in accordance with the provisions of the Employment Standards Act of Ontario as may be amended from time to time, except as hereunder set out in this article.
(bc) A nurse The other parent requesting a Parental/Adoption Leave may commence that leave anytime within the fifty-two (52) week period following the actual date of birth. The term “other parent” includes the natural father and a person who is in a relationship of some permanence with the mother of the child who intends to treat the child as his or her own.
(d) Requests for Parental/Adoption Leave shall advise the Employer be made in writing five on the Application for Pregnancy/Adoption/Parental Leave Form and submitted to the Executive Superintendent of Human Resource Services or designate as far in advance as possible but in no case any later than two (52) weeks in advance before the requested start date of the leave.
(e) The written request for a Parental/Adoption Leave shall contain:
(i) the commencement date of the parental leave is to commence and end. Such leave must commence no later than thirty-five leave;
(35ii) weeks after the termination date of the leave; and
(iii) the date or expected date of birth of the child was born or came in the case of adoption, the date or expected date of the child coming into the custody, care and control of the parentparent for the first time.
(cf) A Parental/Adoption Leave shall be without pay.
(g) Notwithstanding Article 22.02 (f), the Employer shall provide for an Employee on Parental/Adoption Leave a Supplementary Employment Benefit (SEB) Plan approved by Services Canada. The plan will pay an amount equal to the Employment Insurance rate for the two (2) week waiting period prior to the commencement of the Employment Insurance Parental/Adoption Leave Benefits.
(h) The nurse duration of the plan referred to in Article 22.02 (g) shall recoincide with the term of the Agreement.
(i) The Employer shall continue to pay its normal share of the premiums for such benefits as the Employee is currently enrolled in, for the part of the statutory thirty-confirm her intention five (35) or thirty-seven (37) week Parental/Adoption Leave taken by the Employee.
(j) Except for the Long Term Disability Plan, Employees may opt not to return to work or may request changes continue benefits during the leave period by providing written notice to the dates originally approved by Executive Superintendent of Human Resource Services or designate that they do not intend to pay their share of contributions.
(k) The Cumulative Sick Leave Plan shall not apply during the Parental/Adoption Leave nor shall the current sick leave allowance nor any fraction thereof. Benefits accrued to the commencement of the Parental/Adoption Leave shall be reinstated at the agreed upon termination of the Parental/Adoption Leave if the Employee returns to work.
(l) Provided that such alteration does not contravene the provisions of the Act, an Employee may alter the requested date of a Parental/Adoption Leave:
(i) to an earlier date if the Employee gives the Executive Superintendent of Human Resource Services or designate at least two (2) weeks written notice before the earlier start date; or
(ii) to an earlier date if the child comes into custody, care and control of a parent for the first time sooner than the expected date and the Employee provides the Executive Superintendent of Human Resource Services or designate with written notification within two (2) weeks after the Employee starts the leave; or
(iii) to be received by a later date if the Employer Employee gives the Executive Superintendent of Human Resource Services or designate at least two (2) weeks written notice before the date the leave was to begin.
(m) An Employee may alter the requested termination date of a Parental/Adoption Leave:
(i) to an earlier date if the Employee gives the Executive Superintendent of Human Resource Services or designate at least four (4) weeks in advance thereof. The nurse written notice before the leave was to end and the earlier date does not contravene the provisions of the Employment Standards Act; or
(ii) to a later date if the Employee gives the Executive Superintendent of Human Resource Services or designate at least four (4) weeks written notice before the leave was to end and the later date does not contravene the provisions of the Employment Standards Act.
(n) An Employee returning from a Parental/Adoption Leave shall be reinstated return to her former the position most recently held, unless the position has Employee would otherwise have been discontinued declared surplus or redundant to the system in which case she the provisions of Articles 8 & 9 (Surplus/Lay-off Procedure and Recall From Lay-Off) shall be placed in a comparable positionapply.
(do) Extended leaves may be requested in writing by Employees who are on or will be on a Parental Leave. These are leaves that continue beyond the statutory thirty- five (35) or thirty-seven (37) week Parental/Adoption Leave period and may be granted by the Executive Superintendent of Human Resource Services or designate on the basis of the mutual consent of the Employee and the Employer but shall not exceed one (1) year.
(p) Employees who extend a leave under Article 22.02 (o) beyond the statutory limits for Pregnancy/Parental/Adoption Leaves shall maintain the level of benefit coverage that was established during the statutory leave period at their own expense for the duration of the extended leave.
(q) Seniority and service shall continue to accrue during parental and adoption leave however, the nurse will not be paid for named holidays occurring during such leaves of absence. Absence for parental/adoption leave shall be considered as service for the purpose Period of entitlement the Parental/Adoption Leave up to increased vacation and sick leave creditsa period of twenty-four (24) months.
(e) During the nurse's parental/adoption leave, the nurse shall continue to participate in the Canadian Blood Services Pension Plan and insured benefit plans in which she is enrolled immediately prior to commencing her leave unless she gives the Employer five (5) weeks advance written notice before her leave is to commence that she does not intend to do so. The nurse shall be required to prepay her share of any premiums.
(f) A nurse returning from parental/adoption leave shall be paid at the same step in the salary scale that she had attained prior to going on such leave of absence. Should an anniversary increment fall during such leave of absence, the nurse shall receive her anniversary increment upon her return to employment.
(g) A nurse newly hired to replace nurses who are on approved parental/adoption leave may be released and such release shall not be the subject of a grievance or arbitration. If retained by the Employer, the nurse shall be credited with seniority from date of hire subject to successfully completing the probationary period.
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Samples: Collective Agreement
Parental/Adoption Leave. (a) A nurse An employee who has been employed for at least thirteen (13) weeks and who is a parent of a child is entitled to parental leave without pay following the birth of the child or the coming of the child into the custody, care and control of a parent for the first time, shall be entitled to thirty-seven (37) weeks (provided if the employee did not take takes pregnancy leave, she shall be entitled to thirty-five (35) weeks) of parental/adoption leave of absence without pay in accordance with the provisions of the Employment Standards Act of Ontario as may be amended from time to time, except as hereunder set out in this articleOntario.
(b) A nurse The leave application shall advise the Employer be submitted, where possible, six (6) weeks in writing five advance but not later than two (52) weeks in advance of the date the parental parental/adoption leave is to commence and shall indicate when the leave is to end. Such The leave must commence no later than thirtyfifty-five two (3552) weeks after the child was born or came into the custody, care and control of the parent.
(c) The nurse employee shall re-confirm her intention to return to work or may request changes to the dates originally approved in subsection b) above by written notification to be received by the Employer at least four (4) weeks in advance thereof. The nurse employee shall be reinstated to her former position unless the position has been discontinued in which case she shall be placed in a comparable position.
(di) Seniority and service For full-time employees seniority shall continue to accrue during parental and parental/adoption leave however, the nurse employee will not be paid for named holidays occurring during such leaves of absence. Absence The employee shall continue to earn paid vacation and sick leave credits for the entire duration of the absence.
ii) In the case of part-time employees seniority shall continue to accrue during parental/adoption leave. Weekly service and seniority entitlement shall be calculated by adding up the hours worked in the twenty (20) week period immediately prior to the leave and dividing this total by twenty (20). Upon return to employment, absence on parental/adoption leave shall be considered as service for the purpose of entitlement to increased vacation pay and sick leave creditsannual increment. However, the employee will not be entitled to pay-in-lieu of benefits and vacation pay nor will she be paid for named holidays occurring during such leaves of absence.
(e) During the nurseemployee's parental/adoption leave, the nurse employee shall continue to participate in the Canadian Blood Services Pension Plan and insured staff benefit plans in which she is enrolled in immediately prior to commencing her leave unless she gives the Employer five (5) weeks advance written notice before her leave is to commence that she does not intend to do so. The nurse shall be required to prepay her share of any premiums.
(f) A nurse returning from parental/adoption leave shall be paid at the same step in the salary scale that she had attained prior to going on such leave of absence. Should an anniversary increment fall during such leave of absence, the nurse shall receive her anniversary increment upon her return to employment.
(g) A nurse newly hired to replace nurses who are on approved parental/adoption leave may be released and such release shall not be the subject of a grievance or arbitration. If retained by the Employer, the nurse shall be credited with seniority from date of hire subject to successfully completing the probationary period.four
Appears in 1 contract
Samples: Collective Agreement
Parental/Adoption Leave. (a) A nurse i. An Employee who becomes a parent, and who has been employed for at least thirteen (13) weeks and who is immediately preceding the date of the birth of child or the date the child first came into care or custody of the employee, shall be entitled to parental leave.
ii. A "parent” includes: the natural mother or father of the child, a parent of person with whom a child is entitled placed for adoption and a person who is in a relationship with the parent of the child and who intends to parental treat the child as his/her own.
iii. Parental leave without pay following must begin within fifty-two (52) weeks of the birth of the child or the coming within fifty-two (52) weeks of the child into the custody, care and control of a parent for the first time, shall be entitled to thirty-seven (37) weeks (provided the employee did not take pregnancy leave) of parental/adoption leave of absence without pay in accordance with the provisions of the Employment Standards Act of Ontario as may be amended from time to time, except as hereunder set out in this article.
(b) A nurse shall advise the Employer in writing five (5) weeks in advance of the date the parental leave is to commence and end. Such leave must commence no later than thirty-five (35) weeks after day the child was born or first came into the custody, care and control of the parent. For employees on pregnancy leave, parental leave must begin immediately after the pregnancy leave expires. Parental leave shall be granted for up to thirty-five (35) weeks in duration if the employee also took pregnancy leave and up to thirty-seven (37) weeks in duration if she/he did not.
iv. The employee shall give the Employer two (c2) The nurse shall re-confirm her intention weeks’ notice, in writing, of the commencement of Parental or Adoption Leave of absence unless, in the case of Adoption Leave, she is prevented from doing so by reason of the child coming under the care earlier than expected. An Employee who wishes to change her/his return to work or may request changes to the dates originally approved by written notification to be received by date must give the Employer at least two (2) weeks’ written notice.
v. During the period of leave, the employee may continue benefit coverage, including LTD, provided the carrier permits, and benefit premiums during this period shall be paid in the same manner as previous to this leave. An Employee who intends to resume her employment on the expiration of the leave of absence granted to her under this Article shall so advise the Employer four (4) weeks in advance thereofprior to the end of her leave. The nurse shall Employee will be reinstated returned to her former position unless job if it still exists, or to a comparable job in the position event that her former job has been discontinued in which case she shall be placed in a comparable position.
(d) Seniority and service shall continue to accrue during parental and adoption leave however, the nurse will not be paid eliminated. Credits for named holidays occurring during such leaves of absence. Absence for parental/adoption leave shall be considered as service for the purpose of entitlement to increased vacation salary increments, vacations or any other benefit included and sick leave credits.
(e) During prescribed under the nurse's parental/adoption leave, the nurse Employment Standards Act shall continue to participate in and seniority shall accumulate during the Canadian Blood Services Pension Plan and insured benefit plans in which she is enrolled immediately prior to commencing her leave unless she gives the Employer five (5) weeks advance written notice before her leave is to commence that she does not intend to do so. The nurse shall be required to prepay her share of any premiumsleave.
(f) A nurse returning from parental/adoption leave shall be paid at the same step in the salary scale that she had attained prior to going on such leave of absence. Should an anniversary increment fall during such leave of absence, the nurse shall receive her anniversary increment upon her return to employment.
(g) A nurse newly hired to replace nurses who are on approved parental/adoption leave may be released and such release shall not be the subject of a grievance or arbitration. If retained by the Employer, the nurse shall be credited with seniority from date of hire subject to successfully completing the probationary period.
Appears in 1 contract
Samples: Collective Agreement
Parental/Adoption Leave. i) An employee will be granted parental leave for a period up to and including thirty-five (a) A nurse who has been employed for at least thirteen (1335) weeks if pregnancy leave taken, or thirty- seven (37) weeks if pregnancy leave was not taken, upon request and verification of:
i) The birth of the employee's child; or
ii) The coming of a child into the custody, care and control of the parent for the first time. Parent is defined as a person with whom a child is placed for adoption or a person who is in a relationship of some permanence with a parent of a child is entitled and who intends to treat the child as his or her own. The parental leave without pay following of an employee who takes pregnancy leave must begin when the birth of pregnancy leave ends unless the child or has not yet come into custody, care and control of a parent for the coming of first time. Parental leave must begin no more than fifty-two (52) weeks after the day the child is born or comes into the custody, care and control of a parent for the first time, . The employee must provide the Employer with at least two (2) weeks written notice of the date the leave is to begin. Employees shall continue to accumulate seniority and service benefits during the parental leave. The Employer shall continue to pay the premium for all applicable benefits (does not include OMERS) during the parental leave. The Employer contribution to OMERS will be continued unless the employee gives the Employer written notice that the employee does not intend to pay the employee's contributions. An employee who is prevented from returning to work by reason of personal illness at the end of parental leave shall then be considered to be on leave of absence due to illness.
ii) Parental/Adoption leave with pay shall be granted subject to the following conditions: A nurse shall be entitled to thirty-five (35) weeks if pregnancy leave taken, or thirty-seven (37) weeks if pregnancy leave was not taken, of paid leave provided she requests such leave two (provided the employee did not take pregnancy leave) of parental/adoption leave of absence without pay in accordance with the provisions of the Employment Standards Act of Ontario as may be amended from time to time, except as hereunder set out in this article.
(b) A nurse shall advise the Employer in writing five (52) weeks in advance of the expected date the parental leave is to commence and endof commencing leave. Such leave must commence no later than thirty-five The ten (3510) weeks after the child was born or came into the custody, care and control of the parent.
(c) The nurse week entitlement under E.I. shall re-confirm her intention to return to work or may request changes to the dates originally approved by written notification to be received topped by the Employer at least four (4) weeks in advance thereof. The nurse shall be reinstated to her former position unless the position has been discontinued in which case she shall be placed in a comparable position.
(d) Seniority and service shall continue to accrue during parental and adoption leave however, so that the nurse will not be receives eighty percent (80%) of her current weekly earnings. (Current weekly earnings includes paid for named holidays occurring during such leaves of absence. Absence for parental/adoption leave shall be considered as service for the purpose of entitlement to increased vacation and sick leave credits.
(e) During the nurse's parental/adoption leave, the nurse shall continue to participate in the Canadian Blood Services Pension Plan and insured benefit plans case of part-time nurses, percent in which she is enrolled immediately prior to commencing her leave unless she gives the Employer five (5) weeks advance written notice before her leave is to commence that she does not intend to do so. The nurse shall be required to prepay her share of any premiumslieu).
(f) A nurse returning from parental/adoption leave shall be paid at the same step in the salary scale that she had attained prior to going on such leave of absence. Should an anniversary increment fall during such leave of absence, the nurse shall receive her anniversary increment upon her return to employment.
(g) A nurse newly hired to replace nurses who are on approved parental/adoption leave may be released and such release shall not be the subject of a grievance or arbitration. If retained by the Employer, the nurse shall be credited with seniority from date of hire subject to successfully completing the probationary period.
Appears in 1 contract
Samples: Collective Agreement
Parental/Adoption Leave. Employees shall be granted maternity leave of absence in accordance with Alberta Employment Standards or Saskatchewan Labour Standards. Such leave shall be no less than the applicable standards as of January I, The Company agrees to provide a maternity leave of up to fifteen (a) A nurse who has been employed for at least thirteen (1315) weeks and who is for a parent of pregnant employee. In addition, the Company agrees to provide a child is entitled to parental leave without pay following the birth of the child or the coming of the child into the custody, care and control of a parent for the first time, shall be entitled up to thirty-seven (37) weeks (provided for an employee who is a parent, including an adoptive parent, following the birth of a child or after the child is placed with the adoptive parent for the purpose of adoption. In the case of the pregnant employee, the parental leave shall commence forthwith after the expiry of the maternity leave. If following the termination of the maternity leave of absence the employee did not take pregnancy leavedesires additional leave prior to returning to duty, the employee may request a voluntary leave of absence in accordance with Article On request an employee will be granted up to five (5) of parental/adoption days leave of absence without pay for paternity reasons. When an employee is required to perform jury duty on a day they would normally have worked, or attend Court in accordance response to a subpoena only to give evidence as a witness concerning matters occurring during the regular course of their employment with the provisions Company, they will be reimbursed by the Company for the difference between the pay received for jury duty or witness attendance and their regular rate of pay for their regularly scheduled hours of work. The employee will be required to furnish proof of jury duty or witness attendance. Upon discharge from jury or witness service, the Employment Standards Act of Ontario as may be amended from time to time, except as hereunder set out in this article.
(b) A nurse employee shall advise the Employer in writing five (5) weeks in advance of the date the parental leave is to commence and end. Such leave must commence no later than thirty-five (35) weeks after the child was born or came into the custody, care and control of the parent.
(c) The nurse shall re-confirm her intention to return to work or may request changes at their regularly scheduled assignment. In the event that a trial is not related directly to the dates originally approved by written notification to be received by Company or the Employer at least four (4) weeks employee is not appearing as a witness in advance thereof. The nurse a coroner's inquest in which the Company is involved the maximum paid time under the jury duty provision shall be reinstated fifteen (15) days. Employees who lose time by reasons of being subpoenaed to her former position unless the position has been discontinued attend court as a witness in cases in which case she shall be placed the Company is directly involved or subpoenaed as a witness in a comparable position.
(d) Seniority and service shall continue to accrue during parental and adoption leave however, coroner's inquest in which the nurse Company is directly involved will not be paid for named holidays occurring during such leaves all time and reasonable expenses upon submission of absencenecessary receipts. Absence Any fee would be assigned to the Company for parental/adoption leave shall be considered as service for the purpose of entitlement to increased vacation and sick leave creditsbeing a witness.
(e) During the nurse's parental/adoption leave, the nurse shall continue to participate in the Canadian Blood Services Pension Plan and insured benefit plans in which she is enrolled immediately prior to commencing her leave unless she gives the Employer five (5) weeks advance written notice before her leave is to commence that she does not intend to do so. The nurse shall be required to prepay her share of any premiums.
(f) A nurse returning from parental/adoption leave shall be paid at the same step in the salary scale that she had attained prior to going on such leave of absence. Should an anniversary increment fall during such leave of absence, the nurse shall receive her anniversary increment upon her return to employment.
(g) A nurse newly hired to replace nurses who are on approved parental/adoption leave may be released and such release shall not be the subject of a grievance or arbitration. If retained by the Employer, the nurse shall be credited with seniority from date of hire subject to successfully completing the probationary period.
Appears in 1 contract
Samples: Collective Agreement
Parental/Adoption Leave. (a) A full-time or regular-part time nurse who has been employed for commenced employment with the Employer at least thirteen (13) weeks and who is a parent before the expected date of delivery or date of custody of a child and is entitled to parental leave without pay following the birth of the child or the coming of the child into the custody, care and control of a parent for the first timeparent, shall be entitled to thirtysixty-seven three (3763) weeks (provided the employee did not take pregnancy leave) of parental/parental or adoption leave of absence without pay pay, in accordance with the provisions of the Employment Standards Act of Ontario as may be amended from time to timeOntario, except as hereunder set out amended in this articleArticle.
(b) A The nurse shall advise the Employer in writing five seven (57) weeks in advance advance, but not later than two (2) weeks in advance, of the date the parental parental/adoption leave is to commence and end. Such leave must commence no later than thirty-five (35) weeks after the child was born or came into the custody, care and or control of the parent.
(c) The nurse shall re-confirm her their intention to return to work or may request changes to the dates originally approved in subsection b) above by written notification to be received by the Employer at least four seven (47) weeks in advance thereof. The nurse shall be reinstated to her their former position unless the position has been discontinued in which case she they shall be placed in a comparable position.
(d) Seniority A full-time nurse’s seniority, vacation and service sick leave shall continue to accrue during parental and adoption leave howeverleave. However, the nurse will not be paid for named holidays occurring during such leaves of absence. Absence for A regular part-time nurse who is on an approved parental/adoption leave shall be considered as service for accrue seniority while on such leave, calculated on the purpose basis of entitlement to increased vacation and sick averaging their hours over the twenty (20) week period immediately preceding the week in which their leave creditscommences.
(e) During the nurse's parental/parental or adoption leave, the nurse shall continue to participate in the Canadian Blood Services Pension Plan pension plan and insured benefit plans (applicable to full-time nurses only) they are enrolled in which she is enrolled immediately prior to commencing her leave their leave, unless she gives they give the Employer five seven (57) weeks advance written notice before her their leave is to commence that she does they do not intend to do so. The nurse shall be required to prepay her their share of any premiumspremiums and pension contributions.
(f) A nurse returning from parental/adoption leave shall be paid at the same step in the salary scale that she they had attained prior to going on such leave of absence. Should an anniversary increment fall during such leave of absence, the nurse shall receive her their anniversary increment upon her their return to employment.
(g) A nurse newly Nurses hired to replace nurses who are on approved parental/adoption leave leave, may be released and such release shall not be the subject of a grievance or arbitration. If retained by the Employer, the nurse shall be credited with seniority from their date of hire subject to successfully completing the their probationary period.
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Samples: Collective Agreement
Parental/Adoption Leave. i) An employee will be granted parental leave for a period up to and including thirty-five (a) A nurse who has been employed for at least thirteen (1335) weeks if pregnancy leave taken, or thirty- seven (37) weeks if pregnancy leave was not taken, upon request and verification of:
A) The birth of the employee's child; or
B) The coming of a child into the custody, care and control of the parent for the first time. Parent is defined as a person with whom a child is placed for adoption or a person who is in a relationship of some permanence with a parent of a child is entitled and who intends to treat the child as his or her own. The parental leave without pay following of an employee who takes pregnancy leave must begin when the birth of pregnancy leave ends unless the child or has not yet come into custody, care and control of a parent for the coming of first time. Parental leave must begin no more than fifty-two (52) weeks after the day the child is born or comes into the custody, care and control of a parent for the first time, . The employee must provide the Employer with at least two (2) weeks written notice of the date the leave is to begin. Employees shall continue to accumulate seniority and service benefits during the parental leave. The Employer shall continue to pay the premium for all applicable benefits (does not include OMERS) during the parental leave. The Employer contribution to OMERS will be continued unless the employee gives the Employer written notice that the employee does not intend to pay the employee's contributions. An employee who is prevented from returning to work by reason of personal illness at the end of parental leave shall then be considered to be on leave of absence due to illness.
ii) Parental/Adoption leave with pay shall be granted subject to the following conditions: A nurse shall be entitled to thirty-five (35) weeks if pregnancy leave taken, or thirty-seven (37) weeks if pregnancy leave was not taken, of paid leave provided she requests such leave two (provided the employee did not take pregnancy leave) of parental/adoption leave of absence without pay in accordance with the provisions of the Employment Standards Act of Ontario as may be amended from time to time, except as hereunder set out in this article.
(b) A nurse shall advise the Employer in writing five (52) weeks in advance of the expected date the parental leave is to commence and endof commencing leave. Such leave must commence no later than thirty-five The twelve (3512) weeks after the child was born or came into the custody, care and control of the parent.
(c) The nurse week entitlement under E.I. shall re-confirm her intention to return to work or may request changes to the dates originally approved by written notification to be received topped by the Employer at least four (4) weeks in advance thereof. The nurse shall be reinstated to her former position unless the position has been discontinued in which case she shall be placed in a comparable position.
(d) Seniority and service shall continue to accrue during parental and adoption leave however, so that the nurse will not be receives eighty percent (80%) of her current weekly earnings. (Current weekly earnings includes paid for named holidays occurring during such leaves of absence. Absence for parental/adoption leave shall be considered as service for the purpose of entitlement to increased vacation and sick leave credits.
(e) During the nurse's parental/adoption leave, the nurse shall continue to participate in the Canadian Blood Services Pension Plan and insured benefit plans case of part-time nurses, percent in which she is enrolled immediately prior to commencing her leave unless she gives the Employer five (5) weeks advance written notice before her leave is to commence that she does not intend to do so. The nurse shall be required to prepay her share of any premiumslieu).
(f) A nurse returning from parental/adoption leave shall be paid at the same step in the salary scale that she had attained prior to going on such leave of absence. Should an anniversary increment fall during such leave of absence, the nurse shall receive her anniversary increment upon her return to employment.
(g) A nurse newly hired to replace nurses who are on approved parental/adoption leave may be released and such release shall not be the subject of a grievance or arbitration. If retained by the Employer, the nurse shall be credited with seniority from date of hire subject to successfully completing the probationary period.
Appears in 1 contract
Samples: Collective Agreement
Parental/Adoption Leave. i) An employee will be granted parental leave for a period up to and including thirty-five (a) A nurse who has been employed for at least thirteen (1335) weeks if pregnancy leave taken, or thirty- seven (37) weeks if pregnancy leave was not taken, upon request and verification of:
A) The birth of the employee's child; or
B) The coming of a child into the custody, care and control of the parent for the first time. Parent is defined as a person with whom a child is placed for adoption or a person who is in a relationship of some permanence with a parent of a child is entitled and who intends to treat the child as his or her own. The parental leave without pay following of an employee who takes pregnancy leave must begin when the birth of pregnancy leave ends unless the child or has not yet come into custody, care and control of a parent for the coming of first time. Parental leave must begin no more than fifty-two (52) weeks after the day the child is born or comes into the custody, care and control of a parent for the first time, . The employee must provide the Employer with at least two (2) weeks written notice of the date the leave is to begin. Employees shall continue to accumulate seniority and service benefits during the parental leave. The Employer shall continue to pay the premium for all applicable benefits (does not include OMERS) during the parental leave. The Employer contribution to OMERS will be continued unless the employee gives the Employer written notice that the employee does not intend to pay the employee's contributions. An employee who is prevented from returning to work by reason of personal illness at the end of parental leave shall then be considered to be on leave of absence due to illness.
ii) Parental/Adoption leave with pay shall be granted subject to the following conditions: A nurse shall be entitled to thirty-five (35) weeks if pregnancy leave taken, or thirty-seven (37) weeks if pregnancy leave was not taken, of paid leave provided she requests such leave two (provided the employee did not take pregnancy leave) of parental/adoption leave of absence without pay in accordance with the provisions of the Employment Standards Act of Ontario as may be amended from time to time, except as hereunder set out in this article.
(b) A nurse shall advise the Employer in writing five (52) weeks in advance of the expected date the parental leave is to commence and endof commencing leave. Such leave must commence no later than thirty-five The twelve (3512) weeks after the child was born or came into the custody, care and control of the parent.
(c) The nurse week entitlement under E.I. shall re-confirm her intention to return to work or may request changes to the dates originally approved by written notification to be received topped by the Employer at least four so that the nurse receives eighty percent (480%) weeks of her current weekly earnings. (Current weekly earnings includes paid leaves and in advance thereofthe case of part-time nurses, percent in lieu). The nurse Effective date of ratification, November 14, 2011, the twelve (12) week entitlement under E.I. shall be reinstated to her former position unless topped by the position has been discontinued in which case she shall be placed in a comparable position.
(d) Seniority and service shall continue to accrue during parental and adoption leave however, Employer so that the nurse will not be receives eighty-four percent (84%) of her current weekly earnings. (Current weekly earnings includes paid for named holidays occurring during such leaves of absence. Absence for parental/adoption leave shall be considered as service for the purpose of entitlement to increased vacation and sick leave credits.
(e) During the nurse's parental/adoption leave, the nurse shall continue to participate in the Canadian Blood Services Pension Plan and insured benefit plans case of part-time nurses, percent in which she is enrolled immediately prior to commencing her leave unless she gives the Employer five (5) weeks advance written notice before her leave is to commence that she does not intend to do so. The nurse shall be required to prepay her share of any premiumslieu).
(f) A nurse returning from parental/adoption leave shall be paid at the same step in the salary scale that she had attained prior to going on such leave of absence. Should an anniversary increment fall during such leave of absence, the nurse shall receive her anniversary increment upon her return to employment.
(g) A nurse newly hired to replace nurses who are on approved parental/adoption leave may be released and such release shall not be the subject of a grievance or arbitration. If retained by the Employer, the nurse shall be credited with seniority from date of hire subject to successfully completing the probationary period.
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Samples: Collective Agreement
Parental/Adoption Leave. (a) A nurse i. An Employee who becomes a parent, and who has been employed for at least thirteen (13) weeks and who is a parent immediately preceding the date of a child is entitled to parental leave without pay following the birth of the child or the coming date the child first came into care or custody of the child into the custody, care and control of a parent for the first timeEmployee, shall be entitled to thirtyparental leave.
ii. A "parent” includes: the natural mother or father of the child, a person with whom a child is placed for adoption and a person who is in a relationship with the parent of the child and who intends to treat the child as their own.
iii. Parental leave must begin within seventy-seven eight (3778) weeks (provided the employee did not take pregnancy leave) of parental/adoption leave of absence without pay in accordance with the provisions of the Employment Standards Act birth of Ontario as may be amended from time to time, except as hereunder set out in this article.
the child or within seventy-eight (b) A nurse shall advise the Employer in writing five (578) weeks in advance of the date the parental leave is to commence and end. Such leave must commence no later than thirty-five (35) weeks after day the child was born or first came into the custody, care care, and control of the parent. For Employees on pregnancy leave, parental leave must begin immediately after the pregnancy leave expires. Parental leave shall be granted for up to sixty- one (61) weeks in duration if the Employee also took pregnancy leave and up to sixty-three (63) weeks in duration if they did not.
iv. The Employee shall give the Employer two (c2) weeks’ notice, in writing, of the commencement of Parental or Adoption Leave of absence unless, in the case of Adoption Leave, they are prevented from doing so by reason of the child coming under the care earlier than expected.
v. During the period of leave, the Employee may continue benefit coverage, provided the carrier permits, and benefit premiums during this period shall be paid in the same manner as previous to this leave.
vi. An Employee who intends to resume their employment on the expiration of the leave of absence granted to them under this Article shall so advise the Employer two (2) weeks prior to the end of their leave. The nurse shall re-confirm her intention Employee will be returned to their former job if it still exists, or to a comparable job in the event that their former job has been eliminated. An Employee who wishes to change their return to work or may request changes to the dates originally approved by written notification to be received by date must give the Employer at least four (4) weeks in advance thereof. The nurse shall be reinstated to her former position unless the position has been discontinued in which case she shall be placed in a comparable position.
(d) Seniority and service shall continue to accrue during parental and adoption leave however, the nurse will not be paid for named holidays occurring during such leaves of absence. Absence for parental/adoption leave shall be considered as service for the purpose of entitlement to increased vacation and sick leave credits.
(e) During the nurse's parental/adoption leave, the nurse shall continue to participate in the Canadian Blood Services Pension Plan and insured benefit plans in which she is enrolled immediately prior to commencing her leave unless she gives the Employer five (5) weeks advance written notice before her leave is to commence that she does not intend to do so. The nurse shall be required to prepay her share of any premiums.
(f) A nurse returning from parental/adoption leave shall be paid at the same step in the salary scale that she had attained prior to going on such leave of absence. Should an anniversary increment fall during such leave of absence, the nurse shall receive her anniversary increment upon her return to employment.
(g) A nurse newly hired to replace nurses who are on approved parental/adoption leave may be released and such release shall not be the subject of a grievance or arbitration. If retained by the Employer, the nurse shall be credited with seniority from date of hire subject to successfully completing the probationary period.four
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Samples: Collective Agreement
Parental/Adoption Leave. (a) A nurse i. An Employee who becomes a parent, and who has been employed for at least thirteen (13) weeks and who is a parent immediately preceding the date of a child is entitled to parental leave without pay following the birth of the child or the coming date the child first came into care or custody of the child into the custody, care and control of a parent for the first timeEmployee, shall be entitled to thirtyparental leave.
ii. A "parent” includes: the natural mother or father of the child, a person with whom a child is placed for adoption and a person who is in a relationship with the parent of the child and who intends to treat the child as their own.
iii. Parental leave must begin within seventy-seven eight (3778) weeks (provided the employee did not take pregnancy leave) of parental/adoption leave of absence without pay in accordance with the provisions of the Employment Standards Act birth of Ontario as may be amended from time to time, except as hereunder set out in this article.
the child or within seventy-eight (b) A nurse shall advise the Employer in writing five (578) weeks in advance of the date the parental leave is to commence and end. Such leave must commence no later than thirty-five (35) weeks after day the child was born or first came into the custody, care and control of the parent. For Employees on pregnancy leave, parental leave must begin immediately after the pregnancy leave expires. Parental leave shall be granted for up to sixty- one (61) weeks in duration if the Employee also took pregnancy leave and up to sixty-three (63) weeks in duration if they did not.
iv. The Employee shall give the Employer two (c2) weeks’ notice, in writing, of the commencement of Parental or Adoption Leave of absence unless, in the case of Adoption Leave, they are prevented from doing so by reason of the child coming under the care earlier than expected.
v. During the period of leave, the Employee may continue benefit coverage, provided the carrier permits, and benefit premiums during this period shall be paid in the same manner as previous to this leave.
vi. An Employee who intends to resume their employment on the expiration of the leave of absence granted to them under this Article shall so advise the Employer two (2) weeks prior to the end of their leave. The nurse shall re-confirm her intention Employee will be returned to their former job if it still exists, or to a comparable job in the event that their former job has been eliminated. An Employee who wishes to change their return to work or may request changes to the dates originally approved by written notification to be received by date must give the Employer at least four (4) weeks in advance thereof. The nurse shall be reinstated to her former position unless the position has been discontinued in which case she shall be placed in a comparable position.
(d) Seniority and service shall continue to accrue during parental and adoption leave however, the nurse will not be paid for named holidays occurring during such leaves of absence. Absence for parental/adoption leave shall be considered as service for the purpose of entitlement to increased vacation and sick leave credits.
(e) During the nurse's parental/adoption leave, the nurse shall continue to participate in the Canadian Blood Services Pension Plan and insured benefit plans in which she is enrolled immediately prior to commencing her leave unless she gives the Employer five (5) weeks advance written notice before her leave is to commence that she does not intend to do so. The nurse shall be required to prepay her share of any premiums.
(f) A nurse returning from parental/adoption leave shall be paid at the same step in the salary scale that she had attained prior to going on such leave of absence. Should an anniversary increment fall during such leave of absence, the nurse shall receive her anniversary increment upon her return to employment.
(g) A nurse newly hired to replace nurses who are on approved parental/adoption leave may be released and such release shall not be the subject of a grievance or arbitration. If retained by the Employer, the nurse shall be credited with seniority from date of hire subject to successfully completing the probationary period.four
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Samples: Collective Agreement
Parental/Adoption Leave. (a) A nurse The Employer shall grant to an Employee who becomes a parent, provided the Employee has been employed for in its employ at least thirteen (13) weeks and who is immediately prior to the requested start date of the leave, a parent Parental/Adoption Leave of thirty-five (35) or thirty-seven (37) weeks or such shorter leave as the Employee requests.
(b) A mother requesting a child is entitled to parental Parental Leave must commence the leave without pay on the date following the birth conclusion of her Pregnancy Leave. In the case of adoption, the leave may commence anytime within the thirty-five (35) week period following the child or the coming of the child into the custody, care and control of a parent for the first time, shall be entitled to thirty-seven (37) weeks (provided the employee did not take pregnancy leave) of parental/adoption leave of absence without pay in accordance with the provisions of the Employment Standards Act of Ontario as may be amended from time to time, except as hereunder set out in this article.
(bc) A nurse shall advise The other parent requesting a Parental/Adoption Leave may commence that leave anytime within the Employer in writing five (5) weeks in advance of the date the parental leave is to commence and end. Such leave must commence no later than thirty-five (35) weeks after week period following the actual date of birth. The term “other parent” includes the natural father and a person who is in a relationship of some permanence with the mother of the child was born who intends to treat the child as his or came her own.
(d) Requests for Parental/Adoption Leave shall be made in writing on the Application for Pregnancy/Adoption/Parental Leave Form and submitted to the Executive Superintendent of Human Resource Services or designate as far in advance as possible but in no case any later than two (2) weeks before the requested start date of the leave.
(e) The written request for a Parental/Adoption Leave shall contain:
(i) the commencement date of the leave;
(ii) the termination date of the leave; and
(iii) the date or expected date of birth of the child or in the case of adoption, the date or expected date of the child coming into the custody, care and control of the parentparent for the first time.
(cf) A Parental/Adoption Leave shall be without pay.
(g) Notwithstanding Article 22.02 (f), the Employer shall provide for an Employee on Pregnancy Leave a Supplementary Employment Benefit (SEB) Plan approved by Human Resources Development Canada. The plan will pay an amount equal to the Employment Insurance rate for the two (2) week waiting period prior to the commencement of the Employment Insurance Pregnancy Leave Benefits.
(h) The nurse duration of the plan referred to in Article 22.02 (g) shall recoincide with the term of the Agreement.
(i) The Employer shall continue to pay its normal share of the premiums for such benefits as the Employee is currently enrolled in, for the part of the statutory thirty-confirm her intention five (35) or thirty-seven (37) week Parental/Adoption Leave taken by the Employee.
(j) Except for the Long Term Disability Plan, Employees may opt not to return to work or may request changes continue benefits during the leave period by providing written notice to the dates originally approved by Executive Superintendent of Human Resource Services or designate that they do not intend to pay their share of contributions.
(k) The Cumulative Sick Leave Plan shall not apply during the Parental/Adoption Leave nor shall the current sick leave allowance nor any fraction thereof. Benefits accrued to the commencement of the Parental/Adoption Leave shall be reinstated at the agreed upon termination of the Parental/Adoption Leave if the Employee returns to work.
(l) Provided that such alteration does not contravene the provisions of the Act, an Employee may alter the requested date of a Parental/Adoption Leave:
(i) to an earlier date if the Employee gives the Executive Superintendent of Human Resource Services or designate at least two (2) weeks written notice before the earlier start date; or
(ii) to an earlier date if the child comes into custody, care and control of a parent for the first time sooner than the expected date and the Employee provides the Executive Superintendent of Human Resource Services or designate with written notification within two (2) weeks after the Employee starts the leave; or
(iii) to be received by a later date if the Employer Employee gives the Executive Superintendent of Human Resource Services or designate at least two (2) weeks written notice before the date the leave was to begin.
(m) An Employee may alter the requested termination date of a Parental/Adoption Leave:
(i) to an earlier date if the Employee gives the Executive Superintendent of Human Resource Services or designate at least four (4) weeks in advance thereof. The nurse written notice before the leave was to end and the earlier date does not contravene the provisions of the Employment Standards Act; or
(ii) to a later date if the Employee gives the Executive Superintendent of Human Resource Services or designate at least four (4) weeks written notice before the leave was to end and the later date does not contravene the provisions of the Employment Standards Act.
(n) An Employee returning from a Parental/Adoption Leave shall be reinstated return to her former the position most recently held, unless the position has Employee would otherwise have been discontinued declared surplus or redundant to the system in which case she the provisions of Articles 8 & 9 (Surplus/Redundancy/Lay-off Procedure and Recall From Lay Off) shall be placed in a comparable positionapply.
(do) Extended leaves may be requested in writing by Employees who are on or will be on a Parental Leave. These are leaves that continue beyond the statutory thirty-five (35) or thirty-seven (37) week Parental/Adoption Leave period and may be granted by the Executive Superintendent of Human Resource Services or designate on the basis of the mutual consent of the Employee and the Employer but shall not exceed one (1) year.
(p) Employees who extend a leave under Article 22.02 (o) beyond the statutory limits for Pregnancy/Parental/Adoption Leaves shall maintain the level of benefit coverage that was established during the statutory leave period at their own expense for the duration of the extended leave.
(q) Seniority and service shall continue to accrue during parental and adoption leave however, the nurse will not be paid for named holidays occurring during such leaves of absence. Absence for parental/adoption leave shall be considered as service for the purpose Period of entitlement the Parental/Adoption Leave up to increased vacation and sick leave creditsa period of twenty-four (24) months.
(e) During the nurse's parental/adoption leave, the nurse shall continue to participate in the Canadian Blood Services Pension Plan and insured benefit plans in which she is enrolled immediately prior to commencing her leave unless she gives the Employer five (5) weeks advance written notice before her leave is to commence that she does not intend to do so. The nurse shall be required to prepay her share of any premiums.
(f) A nurse returning from parental/adoption leave shall be paid at the same step in the salary scale that she had attained prior to going on such leave of absence. Should an anniversary increment fall during such leave of absence, the nurse shall receive her anniversary increment upon her return to employment.
(g) A nurse newly hired to replace nurses who are on approved parental/adoption leave may be released and such release shall not be the subject of a grievance or arbitration. If retained by the Employer, the nurse shall be credited with seniority from date of hire subject to successfully completing the probationary period.
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Samples: Collective Agreement
Parental/Adoption Leave. (a) A nurse who has been employed for at least thirteen (13) weeks and who is a parent of a child is entitled to parental leave without pay following the birth of the child or the coming of the child into the custody, care and control of a parent for the first time, Pregnancy/Parental/Adoption Leave shall be entitled to thirty-seven (37) weeks (provided the employee did not take pregnancy leave) of parental/adoption leave of absence without pay granted in accordance with the provisions of the Employment Standards Act of Ontario as may be amended from time to time, except as hereunder set out in this articleAct.
(b) A nurse shall advise the The Employer may grant additional leave without pay or benefits for up to one (l) year in writing five (5) weeks in advance total inclusive of the date Statutory leave, provided the parental leave is to commence and end. Such leave must commence no later than thirty-five (35) weeks after the child was born or came into the custody, care and control of the parent.employee submits a
(c) The nurse Seniority shall re-confirm her intention to return to work accrue during any extended Maternity or may request changes to the dates originally approved by written notification to be received by the Employer at least four Adoption leave granted under paragraph 9.03 (4) weeks in advance thereof. The nurse shall be reinstated to her former position unless the position has been discontinued in which case she shall be placed in a comparable positionb).
(d) Seniority and service shall continue The employee returning to accrue during parental and adoption leave however, the nurse will not be paid for named holidays occurring during work after such leaves of absence. Absence for parental/adoption leave shall be considered as service for provide the purpose of entitlement to increased vacation and sick leave creditsEmployer with at least two (2) weeks notice.
(e) During the nurse's parentalOn return from pregnancy/parental or adoption leave, the nurse shall continue to participate in the Canadian Blood Services Pension Plan and insured benefit plans in which she is enrolled immediately prior to commencing her leave unless she gives the Employer five (5) weeks advance written notice before her leave is to commence that she does not intend to do so. The nurse employee shall be required placed in her former position subject to prepay her share the terms of any premiumsthis Agreement.
(f) A nurse returning Nothing contained in this Clause 9.03 shall prevent the Employer from parental/adoption leave shall be paid at the same step in the salary scale that she had attained prior requiring a pregnant employee to going on such take a leave of absence. Should absence at an anniversary increment fall during such leave earlier date if it is considered that her condition is a hazard to herself or fellow employees or if she cannot perform the normal requirements of absence, the nurse shall receive her anniversary increment upon her return to employmentjob.
(g) A nurse newly hired to replace nurses An employee who are on approved parental/adoption commences a leave may as set out above and who is in receipt of Employment Insurance Pregnancy or Parental Benefits shall be released and such release shall not paid a supplementary employment benefit. That benefit will be the subject equivalent to the difference between seventy-three percent (73%) of a grievance or arbitrationher/his regular weekly earnings and the sum of her/his weekly Employment Insurance Benefits and any other earnings. If retained Such payment shall commence following completion of the two (2) week Employment Insurance waiting period, and receipt by the EmployerEmployer of the employee’s Employment Insurance Pregnancy or Parental Benefits stub, and shall continue while the nurse employee is in receipt of such benefits for a period of fifteen (15) weeks, plus an additional ten (10) weeks for an employee taking parental leave. The employee’s regular weekly earnings shall be credited with seniority from date determined by multiplying her/his regular hourly rate on her/his last day worked prior to the commencement of hire subject to successfully completing the probationary periodleave, times her/his normal weekly hours.
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Samples: Collective Agreement
Parental/Adoption Leave. (a) A nurse In accordance with the provisions of the Ontario Employment Standards Act, an employee who has been employed by the Employer for at least thirteen (13) weeks and who is a parent of a child is entitled to parental leave without pay following the birth of the child or the coming of the child into the custody, care and control of a parent for the first time, shall will be entitled to thirty-seven (37) weeks (provided the employee did not take pregnancy leave) of parental/adoption leave of absence without pay in accordance with the provisions of the Employment Standards Act of Ontario as may be amended from time up to time, except as hereunder set out in this article.
(b) A nurse shall advise the Employer in writing five (5) weeks in advance of the date the parental leave is to commence and end. Such leave must commence no later than thirty-five (35) weeks after if pregnancy leave is taken or thirty seven (37) weeks if no pregnancy leave is taken.
(b) An employee who has been granted a pregnancy leave shall be granted parental leave upon written request received at least two (2) weeks prior to the date the leave commences. The leave must begin immediately upon termination of the pregnancy leave unless the child was born has not yet come into custody, care and control in which case the leave must commence within fifty-two (52) weeks of the child's coming into custody, care and control.
(c) Where pregnancy leave has not been taken, an employee may, following the birth of the employee's child or came an adopted child coming into the custody, care and control of the parentparent for the first time, take parental/adoption leave of thirty-seven (37) weeks upon written request at least two (2) weeks prior to the date the leave commences. The employee is required to provide documentation verifying the birth or adoption of the child prior to the leave being granted. Parental/Adoption leave taken in these circumstances must be taken within fifty-two (52) weeks of the child's birth or of the child coming into custody, care and control.
(cd) The nurse shall re-confirm her intention to An employee may return to work prior to conclusion of the leave period of thirty-five (35) or may request changes to thirty-seven (37) weeks provided the dates originally approved by written notification to be received by employee gives the Employer at least four (4) weeks in advance thereof. The nurse shall be reinstated to her former position unless the position has been discontinued in which case she shall be placed in a comparable position.
(d) Seniority and service shall continue to accrue during parental and adoption leave however, the nurse will not be paid for named holidays occurring during such leaves of absence. Absence for parental/adoption leave shall be considered as service for the purpose of entitlement to increased vacation and sick leave credits.
(e) During the nurse's parental/adoption leave, the nurse shall continue to participate in the Canadian Blood Services Pension Plan and insured benefit plans in which she is enrolled immediately prior to commencing her leave unless she gives the Employer five (5) weeks advance written notice before her of the day on which the leave is to commence that she does not intend to do so. The nurse shall be required to prepay her share of any premiumsend.
(f) A nurse returning from parental/adoption leave shall be paid at the same step in the salary scale that she had attained prior to going on such leave of absence. Should an anniversary increment fall during such leave of absence, the nurse shall receive her anniversary increment upon her return to employment.
(g) A nurse newly hired to replace nurses who are on approved parental/adoption leave may be released and such release shall not be the subject of a grievance or arbitration. If retained by the Employer, the nurse shall be credited with seniority from date of hire subject to successfully completing the probationary period.
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Samples: Collective Agreement
Parental/Adoption Leave. (a) A nurse An Employee who has been employed for at least thirteen completed fifty–two (1352) weeks and who is a parent of a child is entitled to parental continuous employment shall upon written request, giving six (6) weeks notice before making application for Parental/Adoption Leave, be granted leave without pay following the birth of the child or the coming of the child into the custody, care and control of a parent for the first time, shall be entitled up to thirty-seven thirty five (3735) weeks (provided the employee did not take pregnancy leave) of parental/adoption leave of absence without pay in accordance with the provisions of the Employment Standards Act of Ontario as may be amended from time to time, except as hereunder set out in this articleweeks.
(b) A nurse shall advise Where the Employee is unable to comply with (a), the Employee may commence Adoption Leave upon one (1) day’s notice provided that application for such leave was made when the adoption was approved and the Employer in writing five (5) weeks in advance is kept informed of the date the parental leave is to commence and end. Such leave must commence no later than thirty-five (35) weeks after the child was born or came into the custody, care and control progress of the parentadoption proceedings.
(c) The nurse An Employee granted Parental/Adoption Leave shall reprovide the Employer with twenty-confirm her intention eight (28) calendar days notice of readiness to return to work work, following which the Employer will reinstate her in the same or may request changes an equivalent position at not less than the same step in the Salary Appendix and other benefits that accrue to her up to the dates originally approved by written notification to be received by the Employer at least four (4) weeks in advance thereof. The nurse shall be reinstated to her former position unless the position has been discontinued in which case date she shall be placed in a comparable positioncommenced leave.
(d) Seniority and service shall continue to accrue In the event that during parental and adoption leave howeverthe period of an Employee’s Parental/Adoption Leave, the nurse will not be paid for named holidays occurring during such leaves of absence. Absence for parental/adoption leave shall be considered as service for position from which the purpose of entitlement to increased vacation and sick leave credits.
(e) During the nurse's parental/adoption leave, the nurse shall continue to participate in the Canadian Blood Services Pension Plan and insured benefit plans in which she Employee is enrolled immediately prior to commencing her leave unless she gives the Employer five (5) weeks advance written notice before her leave is to commence that she does not intend to do so. The nurse shall be required to prepay her share of any premiums.
(f) A nurse returning from parental/adoption leave shall be paid at the same step in the salary scale that she had attained prior to going on such leave has been eliminated due to reduction of absence. Should an anniversary increment fall during such leave the work force or discontinuation of absencethe undertaking or activity and the Employer has not increased the work force or resumed operations on the expiry of the Employee’s Parental/Adoption Leave and the returning Employee does not have sufficient seniority to displace any other incumbent, the nurse shall receive her anniversary increment upon her return name of the Employee will be added to employment.
(g) A nurse newly hired the list of laid off Employees. Upon increasing the work force, resumption of the business, undertaking or activity, recall or reinstatement to replace nurses who are on approved parental/adoption leave may be released and such release shall not be the subject of a grievance or arbitration. If retained by the Employerworking force, the nurse shall be credited in compliance with seniority from date of hire subject to successfully completing the probationary periodLayoff and Recall Article.
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Samples: Collective Agreement
Parental/Adoption Leave. (a) A nurse who has been employed for at least thirteen (13) weeks and The Company shall grant a Parental/Adoption leave without pay to an Employee pursuant to the Employment Standards Act. Parental/Adoption leave of absence applies to an Employee who is a natural or other new parent and who has completed their probationary period prior to the date that the leave is expected to commence. A “parent” is a man or woman who: • Is the natural parent of a child; • Adopts a child • Becomes a step-parent Parental/Adoption leave may commence no later than fifty-two (52) weeks after the baby is entitled to parental leave without pay following the birth of born or the child or the coming of the child first comes into the a parent’s custody, care or control. Parental leave must be taken all at one time and control can last for a maximum duration of a parent for thirty-five (35) weeks in the first time, shall be entitled to case of birth mothers who take pregnancy leave or thirty-seven (37) weeks for all other new parents. For the purpose of adoption leave, an Employee must advise the Company in writing of his acceptance by the appropriate agency as an adoptive parent within thirty (provided 30) days of such notification of acceptance. Supporting documentation must accompany all requests. All other parental leaves must provide written notice at least two (2) weeks prior to commencement of the employee did not take pregnancy leave. An Employee shall be granted three (3) of parental/adoption working days leave of absence without pay in accordance with to attend the provisions needs directly after the receipt of the Employment Standards Act of Ontario as may be amended from time to time, except as hereunder set out in this article.
(b) A nurse shall advise a child. The Employee must give the Employer in writing five (5) weeks in advance a minimum of the date the parental leave is to commence and end. Such leave must commence no later than thirty-five (35) weeks after the child was born or came into the custody, care and control of the parent.
(c) The nurse shall re-confirm her intention to return to work or may request changes to the dates originally approved by written notification to be received by the Employer at least four (4) weeks in advance thereofwritten notice if he or she wishes to return early from the parental leave. The nurse shall be reinstated to her former position unless the position has been discontinued in which case she shall be placed in a comparable position.
(d) Seniority and service shall continue to accrue during parental and adoption leave howeverAll benefits coverage, the nurse will not be paid for named holidays occurring during such leaves of absence. Absence for parental/adoption leave shall be considered as well as continuous service for the purpose of entitlement to increased vacation credit accrual, pension, severance (where applicable) and sick leave credits.
(e) During the nurse's parentalaccrual of seniority, shall be maintained while Employees are on Parental/adoption leaveAdoption Leave. Upon an Employee’s return from Parental/Adoption Leave, the nurse shall continue Employee will be returned to participate in their former position or be given a comparable position with comparable wages and benefits. If the Canadian Blood Services Pension Plan and insured benefit plans in which she is enrolled immediately prior Employee does not return from parental leave on the expected return to commencing her leave unless she gives work day, the Employer five (5) weeks advance written notice before her leave is to commence that she does not intend to do so. The nurse shall be required to prepay her share notify the Employee of any premiums.
(f) A nurse returning from parental/adoption leave shall be paid at the same step in date of the salary scale that she had attained prior to going on such leave end of absence. Should an anniversary increment fall during such leave the Leave of absence, Absence and the nurse shall receive her anniversary increment upon her expected date of return to employmentwork.
(g) A nurse newly hired to replace nurses who are on approved parental/adoption leave may be released and such release shall not be the subject of a grievance or arbitration. If retained by the Employer, the nurse shall be credited with seniority from date of hire subject to successfully completing the probationary period.
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Samples: Collective Agreement
Parental/Adoption Leave. i) An employee will be granted parental leave for a period up to and including thirty-five (a) A nurse who has been employed for at least thirteen (1335) weeks if pregnancy leave taken, or thirty- seven (37) weeks if pregnancy leave was not taken, upon request and verification of:
i) The birth of the employee's child; or
ii) The coming of a child into the custody, care and control of the parent for the first time. Parent is defined as a person with whom a child is placed for adoption or a person who is in a relationship of some permanence with a parent of a child is entitled and who intends to treat the child as his or her own. The parental leave without pay following of an employee who takes pregnancy leave must begin when the birth of pregnancy leave ends unless the child or has not yet come into custody, care and control of a parent for the coming of first time. Parental leave must begin no more than fifty-two (52) weeks after the day the child is born or comes into the custody, care and control of a parent for the first time, . The employee must provide the Employer with at least two (2) weeks written notice of the date the leave is to begin. Employees shall continue to accumulate seniority and service benefits during the parental leave. The Employer shall continue to pay the premium for all applicable benefits (does not include OMERS) during the parental leave. The Employer contribution to OMERS will be continued unless the employee gives the Employer written notice that the employee does not intend to pay the employee's contributions. An employee who is prevented from returning to work by reason of personal illness at the end of parental leave shall then be considered to be on leave of absence due to illness.
ii) Parental/Adoption leave with pay shall be granted subject to the following conditions: A nurse shall be entitled to thirty-five (35) weeks if pregnancy leave taken, or thirty-seven (37) weeks if pregnancy leave was not taken, of paid leave provided she requests such leave two (provided the employee did not take pregnancy leave) of parental/adoption leave of absence without pay in accordance with the provisions of the Employment Standards Act of Ontario as may be amended from time to time, except as hereunder set out in this article.
(b) A nurse shall advise the Employer in writing five (52) weeks in advance of the expected date the parental leave is to commence and endof commencing leave. Such leave must commence no later than thirty-five The twelve (3512) weeks after the child was born or came into the custody, care and control of the parent.
(c) The nurse week entitlement under E.I. shall re-confirm her intention to return to work or may request changes to the dates originally approved by written notification to be received topped by the Employer at least four (4) weeks in advance thereof. The nurse shall be reinstated to her former position unless the position has been discontinued in which case she shall be placed in a comparable position.
(d) Seniority and service shall continue to accrue during parental and adoption leave however, so that the nurse will not be receives eighty percent (80%) of her current weekly earnings. (Current weekly earnings includes paid for named holidays occurring during such leaves of absence. Absence for parental/adoption leave shall be considered as service for the purpose of entitlement to increased vacation and sick leave credits.
(e) During the nurse's parental/adoption leave, the nurse shall continue to participate in the Canadian Blood Services Pension Plan and insured benefit plans case of part-time nurses, percent in which she is enrolled immediately prior to commencing her leave unless she gives the Employer five (5) weeks advance written notice before her leave is to commence that she does not intend to do so. The nurse shall be required to prepay her share of any premiumslieu).
(f) A nurse returning from parental/adoption leave shall be paid at the same step in the salary scale that she had attained prior to going on such leave of absence. Should an anniversary increment fall during such leave of absence, the nurse shall receive her anniversary increment upon her return to employment.
(g) A nurse newly hired to replace nurses who are on approved parental/adoption leave may be released and such release shall not be the subject of a grievance or arbitration. If retained by the Employer, the nurse shall be credited with seniority from date of hire subject to successfully completing the probationary period.
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Samples: Collective Agreement
Parental/Adoption Leave. (a) A nurse who has been employed for at least thirteen (13) weeks and An employee who is a natural or adoptive parent of a child is entitled to shall be granted upon request in writing parental leave without pay following for a period of up to thirty-seven (37) consecutive weeks.
(b) Such leave shall commence no earlier than the birth date on which the newborn or adoptive child comes into the employee’s care and shall end no later than fifty-two (52) weeks after this date.
(c) The employee who is the natural mother of a child must commence the parental leave immediately upon expiry of maternity leave, unless the Employer and employee agree otherwise, and shall give the Employer a minimum of six (6)weeks written notice of her intent to take the parental leave. If the newborn child is hospitalized when maternity leave expires, the taking of the child or leave may be delayed. If the coming natural father intends to take parental leave, he shall give a minimum of six (6) weeks written notice to the Employer of the child into commencement date and duration of the custodyleave. For adoptive parents, care and control of a parent for the first time, such leave shall be entitled requested as soon as possible prior to the commencement of the leave. If both parents are employees, the thirty-seven week parental leave may be taken by one parent or shared by the two parents providing the combined leave period does not exceed thirty seven (37) weeks.
(d) An employee returning to work from parental leave shall be reinstated to his/her previously held position and shall receive a rate of pay that is equivalent to or greater than the rate of pay he/she was receiving immediately prior to departure on parental leave.
(e) The total number of weeks an employee is eligible for parental leave may be shortened or lengthened by mutual agreement between the Employer and the employee. thereto:
(f) During the period of parental leave of up to thirty-seven (37) weeks only specified in clause 23.18 (provided a)
(i) an employee continues to earn seniority and continuous service credits;
(ii) where the employee did participates in group insurance plans of the Employer, the employee and the Employer shall continue their contributions to premiums as required by and subject to the terms of such plans.
(iii) an employee will maintain but not take pregnancy leave) of accrue sick leave or vacation leave benefits for any calendar month in which she/he is on parental/adoption leave for more than one-half (1/2) the number of absence without pay working days in accordance with the provisions of the Employment Standards Act of Ontario as may be amended from time to time, except as hereunder set out in this article.
(b) A nurse shall advise the Employer in writing five (5) weeks in advance of the date the parental leave is to commence and end. Such leave must commence no later than thirty-five (35) weeks after the child was born or came into the custody, care and control of the parent.
(c) The nurse shall re-confirm her intention to return to work or may request changes to the dates originally approved by written notification to be received by the Employer at least four (4) weeks in advance thereof. The nurse shall be reinstated to her former position unless the position has been discontinued in which case she shall be placed in a comparable position.
(d) Seniority and service shall continue to accrue during parental and adoption leave however, the nurse will not be paid for named holidays occurring during such leaves of absence. Absence for parental/adoption leave shall be considered as service for the purpose of entitlement to increased vacation and sick leave credits.
(e) During the nurse's parental/adoption leave, the nurse shall continue to participate in the Canadian Blood Services Pension Plan and insured benefit plans in which she is enrolled immediately prior to commencing her leave unless she gives the Employer five (5) weeks advance written notice before her leave is to commence that she does not intend to do so. The nurse shall be required to prepay her share of any premiums.
(f) A nurse returning from parental/adoption leave shall be paid at the same step in the salary scale that she had attained prior to going on such leave of absence. Should an anniversary increment fall during such leave of absence, the nurse shall receive her anniversary increment upon her return to employmentmonth.
(g) A nurse newly hired An employee granted extended parental leave pursuant to replace nurses Clause 23.18 (e) above may where permissible, under the relevant group insurance plans, continue contributions including those of the Employer during such extended leave.
(h) An employee who are on approved parentalresigns his/adoption leave may be released and such release her position for parental reasons shall not be retain his/her accrued benefits if he/she becomes re-employed in Part I within six (6) months from the subject of a grievance or arbitration. If retained by the Employer, the nurse shall be credited with seniority from date of hire subject to successfully completing the probationary periodhis/her resignation.
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Samples: Collective Agreement
Parental/Adoption Leave. (a) A nurse who has been employed for at least thirteen (13) weeks and Effective date of signing, an employee who is a natural or adoptive parent of a child is entitled to shall be granted, upon request in writing, parental leave without pay following for a period of up to thirty-seven (37) consecutive weeks.
(b) Such leave shall commence no earlier than the birth of date on which the new-born or adoptive child or the coming of the child comes into the custody, employee's care and control of a parent for the first time, shall end no later than fifty-two (52) weeks after this date.
(c) Such leave shall be entitled requested a minimum of six (6) weeks prior to the commencement of such leave in the case of natural parents and as soon as possible prior to the commencement of such leave in the case of adoptive parents.
(d) The total number of weeks an employee is eligible for adoption leave may be shortened or lengthened by mutual agreement between the Employer and the employee.
(e) During the period of parental/adoption leave of up to thirty-seven (37) weeks only specified in clause 27.21(a) hereof:
(provided the i) an employee did continues to earn continuous service credits;
(ii) an employee maintains but does not take pregnancy leave) of accrue sick leave or vacation leave benefits for any calendar month in which she is on parental/adoption leave for more than one-half (1/2) the number of absence without pay working days in accordance with the provisions of the Employment Standards Act of Ontario as may be amended from time to time, except as hereunder set out in this articlethat month.
(biii) A nurse shall advise where the Employer employee participates in writing five (5) weeks in advance group insurance plans of the date Employer, the parental leave is employee and Employer shall continue their contributions to commence premiums as required by and end. Such leave must commence no later than thirty-five (35) weeks after the child was born or came into the custody, care and control of the parent.
(c) The nurse shall re-confirm her intention to return to work or may request changes subject to the dates originally approved by written notification to be received by the Employer at least four (4) weeks in advance thereof. The nurse shall be reinstated to her former position unless the position has been discontinued in which case she shall be placed in a comparable position.
(d) Seniority and service shall continue to accrue during parental and adoption leave however, the nurse will not be paid for named holidays occurring during terms of such leaves of absence. Absence for parental/adoption leave shall be considered as service for the purpose of entitlement to increased vacation and sick leave credits.
(e) During the nurse's parental/adoption leave, the nurse shall continue to participate in the Canadian Blood Services Pension Plan and insured benefit plans in which she is enrolled immediately prior to commencing her leave unless she gives the Employer five (5) weeks advance written notice before her leave is to commence that she does not intend to do so. The nurse shall be required to prepay her share of any premiumsplans.
(f) A nurse returning from parental/adoption leave shall be paid at An employee granted extended Adoption Leave pursuant to clause 27.21(d) may, where permissible under the same step in relevant group insurance plans continue contributions including those of the salary scale that she had attained prior to going on such leave of absence. Should an anniversary increment fall Employer, during such leave of absence, the nurse shall receive her anniversary increment upon her return to employmentextended leave.
(g) A nurse newly hired An employee who resigns his/her position for parental reasons shall retain his/her accrued sick leave and retirement allowance credits if he/she becomes reemployed in Part I of the Public Service within six (6) months from the date of his/her resignation.
(h) An employee returning to replace nurses who are on approved parentalwork from Parental/adoption leave may be released and such release shall not be the subject of a grievance or arbitration. If retained by the Employer, the nurse Adoption Leave shall be credited reinstated to his/her previously held position and shall receive a rate of pay that is equivalent to or greater than the rate of pay he/she was receiving immediately prior to his/her departure on Parental/Adoption Leave.
(i) An employee who does not use the Parental Leave/Adoption Leave provisions above shall be allowed three (3) days leave with seniority from date pay at the time of hire subject to successfully completing the probationary periodadoption of his/her child.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Parental/Adoption Leave. (a) A nurse who has been employed for at least thirteen (13) weeks and who is a parent of a child is entitled to parental leave without pay following the birth of the child or the coming of the child into the custody, care and control of a parent for the first time, shall be entitled to thirty-seven (37) weeks of parental/adoption leave of absence without pay (provided the employee did not take pregnancy leave) of parental/adoption leave of absence without pay in accordance with the provisions of the Employment Standards Act of Ontario as may be amended from time to time, except as hereunder set out in this articleArticle.
(b) A nurse shall advise the Employer in writing five (5) weeks in advance of the date the parental leave is to commence and end. Such leave must commence no later than thirty-five (35) weeks after the child was born or came into the custody, care and control of the parent.
(c) The nurse shall re-confirm her their intention to return to work or may request changes to the dates originally approved by written notification to be received by the Employer at least four (4) weeks in advance thereof. The nurse shall be reinstated to her their former position unless the position has been discontinued in which case she they shall be placed in a comparable position.
(d) Seniority and service shall continue to accrue during parental and adoption leave however, the nurse will not be paid for named holidays occurring during such leaves of absence. Absence for parental/adoption leave shall be considered as service for the purpose of entitlement to increased vacation and sick leave credits.
(e) During the nurse's parental/adoption leave, the nurse shall continue to participate in the Canadian Blood Services Pension Plan and insured benefit plans in which she is they are enrolled immediately prior to commencing her their leave unless she gives they give the Employer five (5) weeks advance written notice before her their leave is to commence that she does they not intend to do so. The nurse shall be required to prepay her their share of any premiums.
(f) A nurse returning from parental/adoption leave shall be paid at the same step in the salary scale that she they had attained prior to going on such leave of absence. Should an anniversary increment fall during such leave of absence, the nurse shall receive her their anniversary increment upon her their return to employment.
(g) A nurse newly hired to replace nurses who are on approved parental/adoption leave may be released and such release shall not be the subject of a grievance or arbitration. If retained by the Employer, the nurse shall be credited with seniority from date of hire subject to successfully completing the probationary period.
(a) Maternity/Parental/Adoption Supplemental Employment Benefit (SEB)
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Samples: Collective Agreement
Parental/Adoption Leave. (a) A nurse who has been employed for at least thirteen (13) weeks and who is a parent of a child is entitled to parental leave without pay following the birth of the child or the coming of the child into the custody, care and control of a parent for the first time, 7.4.1 An employee shall be entitled to thirty-seven (37) weeks (provided leave pursuant to the employee did not take pregnancy leave) of parental/adoption leave of absence without pay in accordance with the provisions of the Employment Standards Fair Work Act of Ontario 2009 as may be amended from time to timetime provided that:
7.4.2 The benefits provided by this clause in respect of parental leave shall apply for each birth of a child or adoption of a child where the employee will be the primary caregiver, except as hereunder set out where otherwise provided in this article7.4.5.
7.4.3 Paid parental leave – continuing employees
(a) After a qualifying period of one (1) year, an employee shall be entitled to leave pursuant to the Fair Work Act 2009 provided that an employee shall be entitled to fourteen (14) weeks of paid parental leave for each birth or adoption.
(b) A nurse In the instance of multiple birth or adoption an entitlement shall advise the Employer in writing five (5) weeks in advance of the date the parental leave is to commence and end. Such leave must commence no later than thirty-five (35) weeks after the child was born or came into the custody, care and control of the parentexist for each child.
(c) An employee may access leave without pay for up to a total of three (3) years (inclusive of the legislative provision) provided that if the employee accesses the second or third year of leave without pay the employee shall attend up to five (5) days of professional development. The nurse nature and timing of the professional development shall re-confirm her intention to return to work or may request changes to the dates originally be approved by written notification to be received by the Employer at least four (4) weeks in advance thereofBranch Secretary. The nurse period of professional development shall be reinstated to her former position unless the position has been discontinued in which case she at full pay and payment shall also be placed in a comparable positionmade for child care on those days.
(d) Seniority and service The Federal Government’s paid parental leave scheme, implemented consistent with the legislation, shall continue to accrue during parental and adoption leave however, not diminish the nurse will not be paid for named holidays occurring during such leaves provisions of absence. Absence for parental/adoption leave shall be considered as service for the purpose of entitlement to increased vacation and sick leave creditsthis clause.
(e) During the nurse's parental/adoption leave, the nurse Superannuation shall continue to participate in be paid and all other employee entitlements shall accrue during the Canadian Blood Services Pension Plan and insured benefit plans in which she is enrolled immediately prior to commencing her leave unless she gives the Employer five (5) weeks advance written notice before her leave is to commence that she does not intend to do soemployer-funded part of an employee’s period of paid parental leave. The nurse Clause 5.10.3 of this Agreement shall be required to prepay her share of any premiumsalso apply.
(f) A nurse returning from parental/adoption Other leave shall entitlements (if any) such as long service leave and annual leave may be paid at used upon application by the same step in the salary scale that she had attained prior to going on such leave of absence. Should an anniversary increment fall during such leave of absence, the nurse shall receive her anniversary increment upon her return to employmentemployee.
(g) A nurse newly hired This period of employer-paid parental leave will be inclusive of public holidays and Christmas close down which may fall during the leave.
(h) An employee currently on parental leave or extended parental leave who subsequently falls pregnant may access a further period of paid and unpaid parental leave subject to replace nurses who are the entitlement of unpaid parental leave being one (1) year for each confinement and no more than five (5) years in any period of seven (7) years.
(i) An employee may access paid parental leave at half pay for double the period of time. Where an employee accesses this leave at half pay the employee will accrue all leave entitlements on approved parental/adoption leave a pro rata basis.
(j) The employee may request to access flexible working arrangements as provided at clause 2.4.6 in a part time or job share capacity following their return to work. This flexible working arrangement may be released accessed until the child in relation to whom parental leave was taken is required to be enrolled for compulsory schooling under the Education (General Provisions) Act 2006.
(k) Such flexible arrangements would be available to the employee immediately after returning from leave identified in Clause 7.4.1(a) and such release (b) provided the quantum of part time work shall not be the subject less than 40% of a grievance or arbitration. If retained by the Employer, the nurse full time equivalent (i.e. equivalent to two days in five).
(i) The Union shall not unreasonably refuse an application from an employee to be employed part time after completing leave as defined under clause 7.4.1(a) and (b).
(ii) The scheduling of part time arrangements shall be credited with seniority from date of hire subject to successfully completing the probationary perioddetermination of the Branch Secretary consistent with the operational needs of the Union.
(iii) An employee accessing part time arrangements shall be entitled to all benefits on a pro rata basis.
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Samples: Collective Agreement
Parental/Adoption Leave. (a) A nurse An employee who has been employed for commenced employment with the Employer at least thirteen (13) weeks and who is a parent before the expected date of delivery or date of custody of a child and is entitled to parental leave without pay following the birth of the child or the coming of the child into the custody, care and control of a parent for the first timeparent, shall be entitled to thirty-thirty- seven (37) weeks (provided the employee did not take pregnancy leave) of parental/adoption parental leave of absence without pay in accordance with the provisions of the Employment Standards Act of Ontario as may be amended from time to time, except as hereunder set out amended by this Article, unless that employee is also taking a pregnancy leave under Article 17.02 in this articlewhich case the employee shall be entitled to a parental leave of no more than thirty-five (35) weeks.
(b) A nurse An employee shall advise the Employer in writing five two (52) weeks in advance of the date the parental leave is to commence and end. Such leave must commence no later than thirtyfifty-five two (3552) weeks after the child was born or came into the custody, care and control of the parent.
(c) The nurse employee shall re-confirm her intention to return to work or may request changes to the dates originally approved in subsection (b) above by written notification to be received by the Employer at least four six (46) weeks in advance thereof. The nurse employee shall be reinstated to her former position unless the position has been discontinued in which case she shall be placed in a comparable position. If neither is available, the employee shall be laid-off in accordance with Article 16 of this Agreement.
(d) Seniority and service shall continue to accrue during parental and parental/ adoption leave leave, however, the nurse employee will not be paid for named holidays occurring during such leaves of absence. Absence for parental/adoption leave The employee shall be considered as service for the purpose of entitlement continue to increased earn paid vacation and sick leave creditscredits for the entire duration of the absence.
(e) During the nurseemployee's parental/adoption leave, the nurse employee shall continue to participate in the Canadian Blood Services Pension Plan and insured staff benefit plans in which she is enrolled in immediately prior to commencing her leave unless she gives the Employer five four (54) weeks advance written notice before her leave is to commence that she does not intend to do so. The nurse employee shall be required to prepay her share of any premiums.
(f) A nurse An employee who continues to participate in the Canadian Blood Services Pension Plan shall, no later than four (4) weeks prior to the commencement of the leave, advise the Employer in writing as to which option she elects: - prepay her share of pension contributions; or - provide the Employer with postdated cheques; or - upon return to employment pay the Employer the full amount of her share of pension contributions. Where an employee does not return to employment after the leave, the Employer shall deduct the appropriate amount of pension contributions from the employee's last pay cheque. Should there be insufficient funds to cover the employee's share of pension contributions the employee will be required to repay the Employer by providing a personal cheque.
(g) An employee returning from parental/adoption leave shall be paid at the same step in the salary scale that she had attained prior to going on such leave of absence. Should an anniversary increment fall during such leave of absence, the nurse employee shall receive her the anniversary increment upon her return to employment.
(gh) A nurse Employees newly hired to replace nurses employees who are on approved parental/adoption leave may be released and such release shall not be the subject of a grievance or arbitration. If retained by the Employer, the nurse employee shall be credited with seniority from date of hire subject to successfully completing the probationary period.
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Samples: Collective Agreement
Parental/Adoption Leave. (a) A nurse who has been employed for at least thirteen (13) weeks and who is a parent of a child is entitled to parental leave without pay following the birth of the child or the coming of the child into the custody, care and control of a parent for the first time, shall be entitled to thirtysixty-seven three (3763) weeks (provided the employee did not take pregnancy leave) of parental/adoption leave of absence without pay in accordance with the provisions of the Employment Standards Act of Ontario as may be amended from time to time, except as hereunder set out in this article.
(b) A nurse shall advise the Employer in writing five (5) weeks in advance of the date the parental leave is to commence and end. Such leave must commence no later than thirty-five (35) weeks after the child was born or came into the custody, care and control of the parent.
(c) The nurse shall re-confirm her their intention to return to work or may request changes to the dates originally approved by written notification to be received by the Employer at least four (4) weeks in advance thereof. The nurse shall be reinstated to her their former position unless the position has been discontinued in which case she they shall be placed in a comparable position.
(d) Seniority and service shall continue to accrue during parental and adoption leave however, the nurse will not be paid for named holidays occurring during such leaves of absence. Absence for parentalpar- ental/adoption leave shall be considered as service for the purpose of entitlement to increased vacation and sick leave credits.
(e) During the nurse's parental/adoption leave, the nurse shall continue to participate in the Canadian Blood Services Pension Plan and insured benefit plans in which she is they are enrolled immediately prior to commencing her their leave unless she gives they give the Employer five (5) weeks advance written notice before her their leave is to commence that she does they do not intend to do so. The nurse shall be required to prepay her their share of any premiums.
(f) A nurse returning from parental/adoption leave shall be paid at the same step in the salary scale that she they had attained prior to going on such leave of absence. Should an anniversary increment fall during such leave of absence, the nurse shall receive her their anniversary increment upon her their return to employment.
(g) A nurse newly hired to replace nurses who are on approved parental/adoption leave may be released and such release shall not be the subject of a grievance or arbitration. If retained by the Employer, the nurse shall be credited with seniority from date of hire subject to successfully completing the probationary period.
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Samples: Collective Agreement
Parental/Adoption Leave. (a) A nurse who has been employed for at least thirteen (13) weeks and Effective date of signing, an employee who is a natural or adoptive parent of a child is entitled to shall be granted, upon request in writing, parental leave without pay following for a period of up to thirty-seven (37) consecutive weeks.
(b) Such leave shall commence no earlier than the birth of date on which the new-born or adoptive child or the coming of the child comes into the custody, employee's care and control of a parent for the first time, shall end no later than fifty-two (52) weeks after this date.
(c) Such leave shall be entitled requested a minimum of six (6) weeks prior to the commencement of such leave in the case of natural parents and as soon as possible prior to the commencement of such leave in the case of adoptive parents.
(d) The total number of weeks an employee is eligible for adoption leave may be shortened or lengthened by mutual agreement between the Employer and the employee.
(e) During the period of parental/adoption leave of up to thirty-seven (37) weeks only specified in clause 27.19(a) hereof:
(provided the i) an employee did continues to earn continuous service credits;
(ii) an employee maintains but does not take pregnancy leave) of accrue sick leave or vacation leave benefits for any calendar month in which she is on parental/adoption leave for more than one-half (1/2) the number of absence without pay working days in accordance with the provisions of the Employment Standards Act of Ontario as may be amended from time to time, except as hereunder set out in this articlethat month.
(biii) A nurse shall advise where the Employer employee participates in writing five (5) weeks in advance group insurance plans of the date Employer, the parental leave is employee and Employer shall continue their contributions to commence premiums as required by and end. Such leave must commence no later than thirty-five (35) weeks after the child was born or came into the custody, care and control of the parent.
(c) The nurse shall re-confirm her intention to return to work or may request changes subject to the dates originally approved by written notification to be received by the Employer at least four (4) weeks in advance thereof. The nurse shall be reinstated to her former position unless the position has been discontinued in which case she shall be placed in a comparable position.
(d) Seniority and service shall continue to accrue during parental and adoption leave however, the nurse will not be paid for named holidays occurring during terms of such leaves of absence. Absence for parental/adoption leave shall be considered as service for the purpose of entitlement to increased vacation and sick leave credits.
(e) During the nurse's parental/adoption leave, the nurse shall continue to participate in the Canadian Blood Services Pension Plan and insured benefit plans in which she is enrolled immediately prior to commencing her leave unless she gives the Employer five (5) weeks advance written notice before her leave is to commence that she does not intend to do so. The nurse shall be required to prepay her share of any premiumsplans.
(f) A nurse returning from parental/adoption leave shall be paid at An employee granted extended Adoption Leave pursuant to clause 27.19(d) may, where permissible under the same step in relevant group insurance plans continue contributions including those of the salary scale that she had attained prior to going on such leave of absence. Should an anniversary increment fall Employer, during such leave of absence, the nurse shall receive her anniversary increment upon her return to employmentextended leave.
(g) A nurse newly hired An employee who resigns his/her position for parental reasons shall retain his/her accrued sick leave and retirement allowance credits if he/she becomes reemployed in Part I of the Public Service within six (6) months from the date of his/her resignation.
(h) An employee returning to replace nurses who are on approved parentalwork from Parental/adoption leave may be released and such release shall not be the subject of a grievance or arbitration. If retained by the Employer, the nurse Adoption Leave shall be credited reinstated to his/her previously held position and shall receive a rate of pay that is equivalent to or greater than the rate of pay he/she was receiving immediately prior to his/her departure on Parental/Adoption Leave.
(i) An employee who does not use the Parental Leave/Adoption Leave provisions above shall be allowed three (3) days leave with seniority from date pay at the time of hire subject to successfully completing the probationary periodadoption of his/her child.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Parental/Adoption Leave. (a) A nurse An employee who has been employed for at least thirteen (13) weeks and who is becomes a parent of a child is entitled eligible to take a parental leave without pay following the birth of the child or the coming of the child into the custody, care and control of a parent for the first time, shall be entitled to thirty-seven (37) weeks (provided the employee did not take pregnancy leave) of parental/adoption leave of absence without pay in accordance with the provisions of the Employment Standards Act of Ontario as may be amended from time to timeAct, except as hereunder set out where amended in this articleprovision.
(b) A nurse shall advise the Employer in writing five (5) weeks in advance of the date the An employee who has taken a pregnancy leave under Article 11.05 is eligible to be granted a parental leave is of up to commence and end. Such leave must commence no later than thirty-five (35) weeks duration, in addition to the pregnancy leave in accordance with the Employment Standards Act, for a total period of up to fifty-two (52) weeks. In such instances, the Employee’s parental leave must begin immediately following the final day of that employee’s maternity leave. The parties agree that this amendment does not override the Employment Standards Acts’ provision regarding cases where the child does not come into the care of the employee until sometime after the child was born or came into the custody, care and control end of the maternity leave. An employee who is eligible for a parental leave who is the natural father or is an adoptive parent, is entitled to a leave period of up to thirty-seven (37) weeks, consideration being given to any requirements of adoption authorities. In cases of adoption, the employee shall advise the Employer as far in advance as possible with respect to a prospective adoption and shall request the leave of absence, in writing, upon receipt of confirmation of the pending adoption. If, because of late receipt of confirmation of the pending adoption, the employee finds it impossible to request the leave of absence in writing the request may be made verbally and subsequently verified in writing.
(c) The nurse shall re-confirm her intention to return to work or may request changes to the dates originally approved by written notification to be received by the Employer at least four (4) weeks in advance thereof. The nurse employee shall be reinstated to her former position position, unless the her/his former position has been discontinued discontinued, in which case she she/he shall be placed in given a comparable positionjob.
(d) Seniority On confirmation by the Employment Insurance Commission of the appropriateness of the Employer's Supplemental Unemployment Benefit (SUB) Plan, an employee who is on parental leave as provided under this Agreement who has applied for and service is in receipt of Employment Insurance Pregnancy/Parental Benefits pursuant to Sections 18 and 20 of the Employment Insurance Act, shall be paid a Supplemental Unemployment Benefit. That benefit will be equivalent to the difference between seventy- five percent (75%) of her/his regular weekly earnings and the sum of her/his weekly Unemployment Insurance Benefits and any other earnings. Effective October 12, 2007 that benefit will be equivalent to the difference between seventy-five percent (75%) of her/his regular weekly earnings and the sum of her/his weekly Unemployment Insurance Benefits and any other earnings. Such payment shall commence following completion of the two (2) week Employment Insurance waiting period, and receipt by the Employer of the employee's Employment Insurance cheque stub as proof that she/he is in receipt of Employment Insurance Parental Benefits, and shall continue while the employee is in receipt of such benefits for a maximum period of ten (10) weeks. Effective October 12, 2007 for a maximum period of twelve (12) weeks. The employee's regular weekly earnings shall be determined by multiplying her/his regular hourly earnings on her/his last day worked prior to the commencement of the leave times her/his normal weekly hours. The employer shall continue to accrue during pay the percentage in lieu of benefits for part-time employees based on the employee’s normal weekly hours of that portion of the parental and adoption leave howeverfor which SUB payments are being made, the nurse will not be paid for named holidays occurring during such leaves of absence. Absence for parental/adoption leave shall be considered as service for the purpose of entitlement i.e. 12 weeks, in addition to increased vacation and sick leave creditspension contributions if applicable.
(e) During the nurse's parental/adoption leave, the nurse shall continue to participate in the Canadian Blood Services Pension Plan and insured benefit plans in which she is enrolled immediately prior to commencing her leave unless she gives the Employer five (5) weeks advance written notice before her leave is to commence that she does not intend to do so. The nurse shall be required to prepay her share of any premiums.
(f) A nurse returning from parental/adoption leave shall be paid at the same step in the salary scale that she had attained prior to going on such leave of absence. Should an anniversary increment fall during such leave of absence, the nurse shall receive her anniversary increment upon her return to employment.
(g) A nurse newly hired to replace nurses who are on approved parental/adoption leave may be released and such release shall not be the subject of a grievance or arbitration. If retained by the Employer, the nurse shall be credited with seniority from date of hire subject to successfully completing the probationary period.
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