Parental/Pregnancy Leave. Parental and pregnancy leave will be granted in accordance with the provisions of the Employment Standards Act, except where amended in this provision. For the purposes of this Article, parent shall be defined to include a person with whom a child is placed for adoption and a person who is in a relationship of some permanence with a parent of a child who intends to treat the child as his or her own. An employee who is pregnant and who has been employed for at least thirteen (13) weeks, immediately preceding the expected date of birth shall be entitled, upon her written application, to a pregnancy leave of absence without pay for a maximum of seventeen (17) weeks from employment. This leave can be immediately followed by thirty-five (35) weeks of parental leave of absence without pay. Unless the child has not yet come into the care and control for the first time. An employee who has completed at least thirteen (13) weeks of continuous service and has not taken pregnancy leave above and who is the parent of a child is entitled to a parental leave of absence without pay for a maximum of thirty-seven (37) weeks following:
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Samples: Collective Agreement, Collective Agreement, Collective Agreement
