Pregnancy Leave and Parenting Leave Pregnancy Leave. (a) Pregnancy/Parenting leave will be granted in accordance with the provisions of the Employment Standards Act, except where amended in this provision. (b) If possible the nurse shall give written notification at least one (1) month in advance of the date of commencement of such leave and the expected date of return. (c) The nurse shall reconfirm her intention to return to work on the date originally approved in subsection (b) above by written notification received by the Centre 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 given a comparable job. (d) Effective upon confirmation by the Employment Insurance Commission of the appropriateness of the Centre's Supplemental Employment Benefit (SUB) Plan, a nurse who is on pregnancy leave as provided under this Agreement, who has completed five (5) months of continuous service and has applied for and is in receipt of Employment Insurance pregnancy/parenting benefits pursuant to Sections 18 and 20 of the Employment Insurance Act, 1971, shall be paid a supplemental unemployment benefit. That benefit will be equivalent to the difference between eighty-four percent (84%) of her regular weekly earning and the sum of her weekly rate of Employment Insurance Benefits and any other earnings. Such payment shall commence following receipt by the Centre of the nurse's Employment Insurance cheque stub as proof that she is in receipt of Employment Insurance pregnancy/ parenting benefits, and shall continue while the nurse is in receipt of such benefits for a maximum period of seventeen (17) weeks. The nurse's regular weekly earnings shall be determined by multiplying her regular hourly rate on her last day worked prior to the commencement of the leave times her normal weekly hours. The employee does not have any vested right except to receive payments for the covered unemployment period. The plan provides that payments in respect of guaranteed annual remuneration or in respect of deferred remuneration or severance pay benefits are not reduced or increased by payments received under the plan.
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Pregnancy Leave and Parenting Leave
Pregnancy Leave. (a) Pregnancy/Parenting Pregnancy leave will be granted in accordance with the provisions of the Employment Standards Act, except where amended in this provision.
(b) If possible the nurse shall give written notification at least one (1) month in advance of the date of commencement of such leave and the expected date of return.
(c) The nurse shall reconfirm her intention to return to work on the date originally approved in subsection (b) above by written notification received by the Centre Sunbeam 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 given a comparable job.
(d) Effective upon confirmation by the Employment Insurance Commission of the appropriateness of the Centre's Sunbeam’s Supplemental Employment Benefit (SUB) Plan, a nurse who is on pregnancy leave as provided under this Agreement, who has completed five (5) months of continuous service and has applied for and is in receipt of Employment Insurance pregnancy/parenting pregnancy benefits pursuant to Sections 18 and 20 22 of the Employment Insurance Act, 1971, shall be paid a supplemental unemployment benefit. That benefit will be equivalent to the difference between eighty-four percent (84%) of her the nurse’s regular weekly earning and the sum of her weekly rate of Employment Insurance Benefits and any other earnings. Such payment shall commence following receipt by the Centre Sunbeam of the nurse's Employment Insurance cheque stub as proof that she is in receipt of Employment Insurance pregnancy/ parenting pregnancy benefits, and shall continue while the nurse is in receipt of such benefits for a maximum period of seventeen (17) weeks. The nurse's regular weekly earnings shall be determined by multiplying her regular hourly rate on her last day worked prior to the commencement of the leave times her normal weekly hours. The employee does not have any vested right except to receive payments for the covered unemployment period. The plan provides that payments in respect of guaranteed annual remuneration or in respect of deferred remuneration or severance pay benefits are not reduced or increased by payments received under the plan.
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Samples: Collective Agreement