Pregnancy/Parental Leave. Pregnancy/Parental Leave will be granted in accordance with the provisions of the Employment Standards Act as amended from time to time. (a) The service requirement for eligibility for pregnancy/parental leave shall be thirteen (13) weeks. (b) The Nurse shall give written notification which shall include the expected date of return and a certificate from a legally qualified medical practitioner at least two (2) weeks in advance of the date of commencement of such leave. This notice will be waived in the event of pregnancy complications, premature birth or the sudden coming into care of an adopted child. (c) The Nurse has the right to return to their former position, if it still exists, or to a comparable position, if it does not. (d) The Nurse shall be granted seventeen (17) weeks pregnancy leave and up to sixty-one (61) weeks of parental leave. Natural mothers, if they take parental leave, must take it at the end of the pregnancy leave, or such time as the child comes into their care, but not more than fifty-two (52) weeks after the child is born or comes into care. I.) waiting period. (e) A Nurse shall be permitted to commence their pregnancy leave at any time up to seventeen (17) weeks before the expected date of delivery. (f) During pregnancy/parental leave a Nurse shall continue to accumulate seniority rights for all purposes and the Employer must continue to make Employer contributions to pension, life insurance, accidental death, extended health and dental plans unless the employee has advised the Employer, in writing, that they do not wish to continue to make the employee contributions to such plans. (g) Parents shall be defined to include adoptive parents and a person in a relationship of some permanence with the natural or adoptive mother or father of the child and who intends to treat the child as own. (h) A Nurse shall have the right to a personal leave of absence without pay to commence immediately following a parental/pregnancy/ adoption leave of absence, provided the sum of all such leaves of absence do not exceed twelve continuous months per pregnancy/ adoption.
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Samples: Collective Agreement, Collective Agreement, Collective Agreement
Pregnancy/Parental Leave. Pregnancy/Parental Leave leave will be granted in accordance with the provisions of the Employment Standards Act (ESA) as amended from time to time.time and as follows:
(a) The service requirement Nurse who is eligible for eligibility for pregnancy/a pregnancy leave, may also take parental leave, provided that the total leave shall does not exceed eighteen (18) months. Parental leave, when not following a pregnancy leave, can be thirteen taken up to a maximum of sixty-three (1363) weeks.;
(b) The Nurse shall give written notification which shall include the expected date of return and a certificate from a legally qualified medical practitioner at least two one (21) weeks month in advance of the date of commencement of such leaveleave and the expected date of return. This notice will shall be waived in the event of pregnancy complications, premature birth or the sudden coming into care of an adopted child.;
(c) The Nurse has shall reconfirm the right intention to return to their former positionwork on the date originally approved in subsection (b) above by written notification received by the Employer at least four (4) weeks in advance thereof. Upon return from pregnancy or parental leave, the Nurse shall be reinstated to the position the Nurse most recently held with the Employer, if it still exists, or to a comparable position, position if it does not.
(d) The A Nurse who is on pregnancy/parental leave as provided under this Agreement, who has applied for and is in receipt of Employment Insurance pregnancy/parental benefits pursuant to the Employment Insurance Act, shall be granted seventeen paid a Supplemental Unemployment Benefit (17SUB) as follows:
i) The benefit will be equivalent to the difference between eighty percent (80%) of their regular weekly earnings and the sum of their weekly Employment Insurance benefits and any other earnings for a maximum period of fifteen (15) weeks for pregnancy leave and up to sixty-one and/or ten (6110) weeks of for parental leave. Natural mothers, if they take parental leave, must take it at the end .
ii) Regardless of the pregnancy leaveleave option elected by the Nurse, or such time as the child comes into their care, but not more than fiftySupplemental Unemployment Benefit shall be calculated based on a thirty-two five (5235) weeks after week parental leave benefit under the child is born or comes into careEmployment Insurance Act.
I.iii) The Nurse's regular weekly earnings shall be determined by multiplying their regular hourly rate, plus the percentage in lieu of sick leave and health and welfare benefits, in the case of part-time nurses, on their last day worked prior to the commencement of the leave times their normal weekly hours;
iv) Such payment shall commence following completion of the Employment Insurance waiting period, and receipt by the County of the Nurse's Employment Insurance cheque stub as proof that the Nurse is in receipt of such benefits.
(e) A Seniority and service continues to accrue during pregnancy/parental leave. Participation in the benefit plans shall also continue during pregnancy/parental leave unless the Nurse shall be permitted elects, in writing, not to commence do so or that the Nurse does not intend to pay their pregnancy leave at any time up to seventeen (17) weeks before contribution towards the expected date of deliverybenefit premium.
(f) During pregnancy/parental leave Nurses have no vested right to payments under the plan except to payments during a Nurse shall continue to accumulate seniority rights for all purposes and the Employer must continue to make Employer contributions to pension, life insurance, accidental death, extended health and dental plans unless the employee has advised the Employer, period of unemployment specified in writing, that they do not wish to continue to make the employee contributions to such plansthis Article.
(g) Parents shall be defined to include adoptive parents and a person Payments in a relationship respect of some permanence with guaranteed annual remuneration or in respect of deferred remuneration or severance pay benefits are not reduced or increased by payments received under the natural or adoptive mother or father of the child and who intends to treat the child as ownplan.
(h) A Nurse shall have the right to a personal leave of absence without pay to commence immediately following a parental/pregnancy/ adoption leave of absence, provided the sum of all such leaves of absence do not exceed twelve continuous months per pregnancy/ adoption.
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Samples: Collective Agreement, Collective Agreement, Collective Agreement
Pregnancy/Parental Leave. Pregnancy(a) An employee shall be entitled to pregnancy/Parental Leave parental leave in accordance with the Employment Standards Act.
(b) The leave of absence shall not end before the expiration of six (6) weeks following the actual date of delivery.
(c) The employee shall give the Hospital two (2) weeks' notice in writing prior to the day upon which the employee intends to commence their leave of absence and shall furnish the Hospital with the certificate of a legally qualified medical practitioner stating that the employee is pregnant and giving the estimated day upon which delivery will occur in their opinion.
(d) An employee may, if they desire to return to work, shorten the duration of the leave of absence requested upon giving the Hospital four (4) week's notice of their intention to do so and furnishing the Hospital with the certificate of a legally qualified medical practitioner stating that they are able to resume work.
(e) The Hospital may require the employee to begin the leave of absence at such time as the duties of their position cannot reasonably be performed by a pregnant person or the performance of their work is materially affected by the pregnancy.
(f) The employee shall, if requested by the Hospital, furnish medical proof of fitness to resume employment following the leave of absence.
(g) Credits for benefits under the provisions of the Collective Agreement or elsewhere, shall be retained up to the commencement of the leave except that in the case of an employee who has worked ten (10) or more days during the calendar month, such credits shall continue to accumulate to the end of that calendar month. Credit for seniority shall not be suspended but shall accumulate during such leave.
(h) The Hospital will continue to pay its share of the cost of the subsidized employee benefits in which the employee is participating at the time of leave while an employee is on pregnancy/parental leave. Participation in the Hospital’s pension plan will be at the option of the employee. If the employee opts to continue participation in the pension plan, the Hospital will continue to pay its share of the cost as provided above.
(i) No leave granted under the provisions of this Article will be considered sick leave and sick leave credits may not be used.
(j) An employee intending to resume employment with the Hospital is required to advise the Hospital in writing two (2) weeks prior to the expiry of the leave of absence. Upon return to work following such leave, the employee will be returned to their former position or to work of a comparable nature at the same increment level of pay as the employee received prior to the commencement of the leave, in accordance with the provisions of this Collective Agreement relating to seniority, provided that where operations which were suspended or discontinued by the Employment Standards Act Hospital during such leave of absence have not been resumed by the Hospital prior to the expiry thereof, the Hospital shall, upon resumption of such operations, return the employee to work as amended from time to timeabove provided in this paragraph (j) hereof.
(ak) The service requirement leave of absence provided for eligibility for pregnancy/parental leave shall under this Article may be thirteen (13) weeksextended by the Hospital upon application in writing to Human Resources.
(bl) The Nurse An employee on maternity leave as provided under this agreement who is in receipt of Unemployment Insurance Pregnancy Benefits pursuant to section 30, of the Unemployment Insurance Act, 1971, shall give written notification which shall include be paid a supplemental unemployment benefit. That benefit will be equivalent to the expected date difference between eighty-four percent (84%) of return the employee’s regular weekly earnings and the sum of their weekly unemployment insurance benefits and any other earnings to a certificate from a legally qualified medical practitioner at least two maximum period of fifteen (215) weeks in advance of the date of commencement of such for a maternity leave. This notice will be waived in the event of pregnancy complications, premature birth or the sudden coming into care of an adopted child.
(cm) The Nurse has An employee on parental leave as provided under this agreement who is in receipt of Unemployment Insurance Parental Benefits pursuant to section 30, of the right to return to their former positionUnemployment Insurance Act, if it still exists1971, or to a comparable position, if it does not.
(d) The Nurse shall be granted seventeen paid a supplemental unemployment benefit. That benefit will be equivalent to the difference between eighty-four (1784%) weeks pregnancy leave and up to sixty-one (61) weeks of parental leave. Natural mothers, if they take parental leave, must take it at the end of the pregnancy leave, or such time as the child comes into their care, but not more than fifty-two (52) weeks after the child is born or comes into care.
I.) waiting period.
(e) A Nurse shall be permitted to commence their pregnancy leave at any time up to seventeen (17) weeks before the expected date of delivery.
(f) During pregnancy/parental leave a Nurse shall continue to accumulate seniority rights for all purposes employee’s regular weekly earnings and the Employer must continue to make Employer contributions to pension, life insurance, accidental death, extended health and dental plans unless the employee has advised the Employer, in writing, that they do not wish to continue to make the employee contributions to such plans.
(g) Parents shall be defined to include adoptive parents and a person in a relationship of some permanence with the natural or adoptive mother or father of the child and who intends to treat the child as own.
(h) A Nurse shall have the right to a personal leave of absence without pay to commence immediately following a parental/pregnancy/ adoption leave of absence, provided the sum of all such leaves their weekly unemployment insurance benefits and any other earnings to a maximum period of absence do not exceed twelve continuous months per pregnancy/ adoptionten (10) weeks for a parental leave.
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Samples: Collective Agreement, Collective Agreement, Collective Agreement
Pregnancy/Parental Leave. (a) Pregnancy/Parental Leave leave will be granted in accordance with the provisions of the Employment Standards Act as Act, except where amended from time to timein this provision.
(ab) The service requirement for eligibility for pregnancy/parental leave shall be A pregnant nurse whose date falls at least thirteen (13) weeks after she commenced employment is entitled to pregnancy leave of seventeen (17) weeks.
(bc) The Nurse If possible, the nurse shall give written notification which shall include the expected date of return and a certificate from a legally qualified medical practitioner at least two one (21) weeks month in advance of the date of commencement of such leave. This notice will be waived in leave and the event expected date of pregnancy complications, premature birth or the sudden coming into care of an adopted child.
(c) The Nurse has the right to return to their former position, if it still exists, or to a comparable position, if it does notreturn.
(d) The Nurse nurse shall reconfirm her intention to return to work on the date originally approved in subsection (b) above by written notification received by the Employer at least four (4) weeks in advance thereof. The nurse shall be granted seventeen reinstated to her former position, unless the position has been discontinued in which case she shall be given a comparable job.
(17e) A nurse who becomes a parent and who has been employed for at least thirteen (13) weeks pregnancy immediately preceding the date the leave and up begins shall be entitled to sixty-one (61) weeks of parental leave. Natural mothers, if they take parental leave, .
(f) Parental leave must take it at the end of the pregnancy leave, or such time as the child comes into their care, but not more than begin within fifty-two (52) weeks of the birth of the child or within fifty-two (52) weeks of the day the child first came into custody, care and control of the parent or for nurses who take pregnancy leave, parental leave will begin immediately after the pregnancy leave expires, unless the child is born or comes has not yet come into care.
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(e) A Nurse her custody, care and control for the first time. Parental leave shall be permitted granted for up to commence their thirty-five (35) weeks in duration for nurses who also took pregnancy leave at any time and for up to seventeen thirty-seven (1737) weeks before the expected date of delivery.
(f) During pregnancy/parental leave a Nurse shall continue to accumulate seniority rights in duration for all purposes and the Employer must continue to make Employer contributions to pension, life insurance, accidental death, extended health and dental plans unless the employee has advised the Employer, in writing, that they do not wish to continue to make the employee contributions to such plansother nurses.
(g) Parents The nurse shall be defined to include adoptive parents and a person in a relationship of some permanence with give the natural or adoptive mother or father Employer two (2) weeks written notice of the child and date the leave is to begin, unless exempt under the Employment Standards Act. Parental leave ends thirty-seven (37) weeks after it began or thirty-five (35) weeks after it began for nurses who intends to treat also took pregnancy leave or on an earlier day if the child as ownnurse gives the Employer at least four (4) weeks written notice of that day.
(h) For the purposes of parental leave, the provisions under (a) and (d) shall also apply.
(i) A Nurse nurse who is on pregnancy leave, as provided under this Agreement, who has applied for and is in receipt of Employment Insurance pregnancy benefits pursuant to Section 18 of the Employment Insurance Act shall have be paid a supplemental employment benefit. That benefit will be equivalent to the right to a personal leave difference between eighty-four percent (84%) of absence without pay to commence immediately following a parental/pregnancy/ adoption leave of absence, provided her regular weekly earnings and the sum of all her weekly Employment 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 nurse’s Employment Insurance cheque stub as proof that she is in receipt of Employment Insurance pregnancy benefits and shall continue for a maximum period of fifteen (15) weeks. The nurse’s regular weekly earnings shall be calculated by using the same time period used for calculation of Employment Insurance benefit. (Currently twenty-six (26) weeks). The nurse does not have any vested right except to receive payments for the covered employment 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.
(j) A nurse who is on parental leave, as provided under this Agreement, who has applied for and is in receipt of Employment Insurance parental benefits pursuant to Section 20 of the Employment Insurance Act shall be paid a supplemental employment benefit. That benefit will be equivalent to the difference between eighty-four percent (84%) of the nurse’s regular weekly earnings and the sum of her weekly Employment 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 nurse’s Employment Insurance cheque stub as proof that she is in receipt of Employment Insurance parental benefits and shall continue while the nurse is in receipt of such leaves benefits for a maximum period of absence do ten (10) weeks. The nurse’s regular weekly earnings shall be calculated by using the same time period used for calculation of Employment Insurance benefit. (Currently twenty-six (26) weeks). The nurse does not exceed twelve continuous months per pregnancy/ adoptionhave any vested right except to receive payments for the covered employment 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, Collective Agreement, Collective Agreement
Pregnancy/Parental Leave. (a) Pregnancy/Parental Leave leave will be granted in accordance with the provisions of the Employment Standards Act (ESA) as amended from time to time.time and as follows:
(ai) The service requirement for eligibility for pregnancy/parental leave shall be thirteen (13) weeks.
(bii) The Nurse employee shall endeavour to give written notification which shall include the expected date of return and a certificate from a legally qualified medical practitioner at least two one (21) weeks month in advance of the date of commencement of such leaveleave and the expected date of return. This notice will shall be waived in the event of pregnancy complications, premature birth or the sudden coming into care of an adopted child.
(ciii) The Nurse employee has the right to return extend the pregnancy and/or parental leave to their former position, if it still exists, or eighteen (18) months in total. Written notice by the employee to a comparable position, if it does notextend the leave will be given at least four (4) weeks prior to the termination of the initially approved leave. This notice requirement will be shortened in circumstances where medical complications occur in the four (4) weeks prior to the termination of the initially approved leave.
(div) The Nurse An employee shall be granted allowed to commence her pregnancy leave no earlier than the earlier of (i) the day that is seventeen (17) weeks before her due date and (ii) the day on which she gives birth.
v) Members who have utilized pregnancy leave and up to sixty-one (61) weeks of will commence parental leave following their pregnancy leave. Natural mothers, if they take All other parents may begin parental leave, must take it at the end of the pregnancy leave, or such time as the child comes into their care, but not more leave no later than fifty-two (52) weeks after of the child is being born or comes into careadopted.
I.vi) waiting period.
(e) A Nurse shall be permitted to commence their pregnancy leave at any time up to seventeen (17) weeks before the expected date of delivery.
(f) During pregnancy/parental leave a Nurse An employee shall continue to accumulate service and seniority rights for all purposes and may participate in the Employer must continue to make Employer contributions to following benefits: pension, life insurance, accidental death, extended health EHC and dental plans unless throughout the employee has advised pregnancy and parental leave provided she/he pays her/his share of the Employerpremiums, in writing, that they do not wish to continue to make the employee contributions to such plansif any.
(gvii) Parents shall be defined to include adoptive parents and a person in a relationship of some permanence with the natural or adoptive mother or father of the child and who intends to treat the child as his or her own.
(h) A Nurse shall have the right to a personal leave of absence without pay to commence immediately following a parental/pregnancy/ adoption leave of absence, provided the sum of all such leaves of absence do not exceed twelve continuous months per pregnancy/ adoption.
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Samples: Collective Agreement, Collective Agreement, Collective Agreement
Pregnancy/Parental Leave. (a) Pregnancy/Parental Leave Parenting leave will be granted in accordance with the provisions of the Employment Standards Act as Act, except where amended from time to time.
(a) The service requirement for eligibility for pregnancy/parental leave shall be thirteen (13) weeksin this provision.
(b) The Nurse nurse shall give written notification which shall include the expected date of return and a certificate from a legally qualified medical practitioner at least two (2) weeks in advance of the date of commencement of such a leave. This notice will be waived in the event of pregnancy complications, premature birth or the sudden coming into care of an adopted child.
(c) The Nurse nurse shall reconfirm her intention to return to work on the date originally approved in subsection (b) above by written notification received by the Employer at least four (4) weeks in advance thereof. The nurse shall be reinstated to her former position on the date of her return unless the position has been discontinued in which case she shall be given a comparable job.
(d) The nurse has the right to return to their her former position, if it still exists, or to a comparable position, if it does not.
(d) The Nurse shall be granted seventeen (17) weeks pregnancy leave and up to sixty-one (61) weeks of parental leave. Natural mothers, if they take parental leave, must take it at the end of the pregnancy leave, or such time as the child comes into their care, but not more than fifty-two (52) weeks after the child is born or comes into care.
I.) waiting period.
(e) A Nurse nurse shall be permitted to commence their her pregnancy leave at any time up to within the seventeen (17) weeks before the expected date of delivery.
(f) During pregnancy/parental leave a Nurse shall continue to accumulate seniority rights for all purposes and the Employer must continue to make Employer contributions to pension, life insurance, accidental death, extended health and dental plans unless the employee has advised the Employer, in writing, that they do not wish to continue to make the employee contributions to such plans.
(g) Parents shall be defined to include adoptive parents and a person in a relationship of some permanence with the natural or adoptive mother or father of the child and who intends to treat the child as his or her own.
(hg) A Nurse nurse shall have the right to a personal leave of absence without pay to commence immediately following a parental/pregnancy/ adoption pregnancy leave of absence, provided the sum of all such leaves of absence do not exceed twelve continuous months per pregnancy/ adoptionpregnancy/parental.
(h) During an employee’s leave under pregnancy/parental leave, the employer shall continue to make the employer’s contributions for any benefit plan the employee is enrolled, unless the employee gives the employer a written notice that the employee does not intend to pay the employee’s contributions, if any.
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Samples: Collective Agreement, Collective Agreement, Collective Agreement
Pregnancy/Parental Leave. Pregnancy/Pregnancy / Parental Leave will be granted in accordance with the provisions of the Employment Standards Act as amended from time to time. A nurse eligible for leave under this article is entitled to combine any such leaves so that the cumulative total leave is up to twelve (12) consecutive months.
(a) The service requirement for eligibility for pregnancy/parental leave shall be thirteen (13) weeks.
(b) The Nurse nurse shall give written notification which shall include the expected date of return and a certificate from a legally qualified medical practitioner at least two (2) weeks in advance of the date of commencement of such leave. This notice will be waived in the event of pregnancy complications, premature birth or the sudden coming into care of an adopted child.
(c) The Nurse nurse has the right to return to their her former position, if it still exists, or to a comparable position, if it does not.
(d) The Nurse Each nurse/parent who has worked for the same Employer for thirteen (13) weeks shall be granted seventeen eighteen (17) weeks pregnancy leave and up to sixty-one (6118) weeks of unpaid parental leave. Natural mothers, if they take parental leave, must take it at the end of the pregnancy leave, or such time as the child comes into their care, but . All other parents must begin this leave not more later than fiftythirty-two five (5235) weeks after the child is born or comes into care.
I.) waiting period.
(e) A Nurse nurse shall be permitted to commence their her pregnancy leave at any time up to seventeen (17) weeks before the expected date of delivery.
(f) During pregnancy/parental leave a Nurse A nurse shall continue to accumulate seniority service rights for all purposes and the Employer must shall continue to make Employer contributions participate in the pension plan and group benefits plan unless she elects in writing not to pension, life insurance, accidental death, extended health and dental plans unless the employee has advised the Employer, in writing, that they do not wish to continue to make the employee contributions to such plansso.
(g) Parents shall be defined to include adoptive parents and a person in a relationship of some permanence with the natural or adoptive mother or father of the child and who intends to treat the child as his or her own.
(h) A Nurse nurse shall have the right to a personal leave of absence without pay to commence immediately following a parentalparental/ pregnancy/pregnancy/ adoption leave of absence, provided the sum of all such leaves of absence do not exceed twelve continuous months per pregnancy/ pregnancy/adoption.
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Samples: Collective Agreement, Collective Agreement
Pregnancy/Parental Leave. Pregnancy/Pregnancy / Parental Leave will be granted in accordance with the provisions of the Employment Standards Act as amended from time to time.the
(a) The service requirement for eligibility for pregnancy/parental leave shall be thirteen (13) weeks.
(b) The Nurse nurse shall give written notification which shall include the expected date of return and a certificate from a legally qualified medical practitioner at least two (2) weeks in advance of the date of commencement of such leave. This notice will be waived in the event of pregnancy complications, premature birth or the sudden coming into care of an adopted child.
(c) The Nurse nurse has the right to return to their her former position, if it still exists, or to a comparable position, if it does not.
(d) The Nurse Each nurse/parent who has worked for the same Employer for thirteen (13) weeks shall be granted seventeen thirty-five (17) weeks pregnancy leave and up to sixty-one (6135) weeks of unpaid parental leaveleave if the employee also took pregnancy leave or thirty-seven (37) weeks of unpaid parental leave otherwise. Natural mothers, if they take parental leave, must take it at the end of the pregnancy leave, or such time as the child comes into their care, but . All other parents must begin this leave not more later than fifty-two (52) weeks after the child is born or comes into care.
I.) waiting period.
(e) A Nurse nurse shall be permitted to commence their her pregnancy leave at any time up to seventeen (17) weeks before the expected date of delivery.
(f) During pregnancy/parental leave a Nurse A nurse shall continue to accumulate seniority seniority, service rights for all purposes and the Employer must shall continue to make Employer contributions participate in the pension plan and group benefits plan unless she elects in writing not to pension, life insurance, accidental death, extended health and dental plans unless the employee has advised the Employer, in writing, that they do not wish to continue to make the employee contributions to such plansso.
(g) Parents shall be defined to include adoptive parents and a person in a relationship of some permanence with the natural or adoptive mother or father of the child and who intends to treat the child as his or her own.
(h) A Nurse nurse shall have the right to a personal leave of absence without pay to commence immediately following a parentalparental/ pregnancy/pregnancy/ adoption leave of absence, provided the sum of all such leaves of absence do not exceed twelve continuous months per pregnancy/ pregnancy/adoption.
(i) A nurse who is on pregnancy leave as provided under this Agreement who is in receipt of Employment Insurance pregnancy benefits pursuant to Section 18 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 regular weekly earnings and the sum of her weekly Employment Insurance benefits and any other earnings. Such payment shall commence following completion of the two week Employment Insurance waiting period, and receipt by the Employer of the nurse’s Employment Insurance cheque stub as proof that she is in receipt of Employment Insurance pregnancy benefits, and shall continue while the nurse is in receipt of such benefits for a maximum period of fifteen (15) 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, Collective Agreement
Pregnancy/Parental Leave. Pregnancy/Parental Leave (a) Pregnancy leave will be granted in accordance with the provisions of the Employment Standards Act as Act, except where amended from time to timein this provision.
(ab) The service requirement for eligibility for pregnancy/parental maternity leave shall be thirteen (13) weeks.
(b) The Nurse shall give written notification which shall include weeks of continuous service before the expected date of return and a certificate from a legally qualified medical practitioner at least two (2) weeks in advance of the date of commencement of such leave. This notice will be waived in the event of pregnancy complications, premature birth or the sudden coming into care of an adopted childbirth.
(c) The Nurse has employee shall give written notification two weeks prior to the right commencement of the leave of her request for leave together with her expected date of return. At such time she shall also furnish the Employer her doctor's certificate as to pregnancy and expected date of delivery.
(d) During the period of leave, the Employer shall continue to pay the Employer's portion of hospital, medical, dental, group life, pension and other benefits included and prescribed by the Employment Standards Act if the employee elects, in writing, to continue her share of the premiums. If deductions for the employee's share of the premiums are required, the Employer shall deduct these amounts from the SUB payments. Credits for service shall accumulate for the initial seventeen (17) weeks from the commencement of the leave while an employee is on maternity leave. Credits for seniority shall accumulate during the period of the leave.
(e) The employee shall reconfirm her intention to return to their former positionwork on the date originally provided to the Employer in 23.08 (c) above by written notification received by the Employer at least two weeks in advance thereof. The employee shall be reinstated to the position the employee most recently held with the Employer, if it still exists, or to a comparable position, if it does not.
(df) The Nurse An employee who commences a leave as set out above who is in receipt of employment insurance pregnancy benefits pursuant to the Employment Insurance Act, shall be granted seventeen paid a supplemental employment benefit. That benefit will be equivalent to the difference between seventy-five percent (1775%) weeks pregnancy leave of her regular weekly earnings and up to sixty-one (61) weeks the sum of parental leaveher weekly employment insurance benefits and any other earnings. Natural mothers, if they take parental leave, must take it at Such payment shall commence following the end completion of the pregnancy leave, or such time as the child comes into their care, but not more than fifty-two (52) weeks after the child is born or comes into care.
I.) week employment insurance waiting period.
, during which time she shall receive 75% of her regular weekly earnings, and receipt by the Employer of the employee's employment insurance cheque stub as proof that she is in receipt of employment insurance pregnancy benefits for a maximum period of fifteen (e15) A Nurse weeks. The employee's regular weekly earnings shall be permitted determined by multiplying her regular hourly rate on the last day worked prior to commence their pregnancy the commencement of the leave at times her normal weekly hours. The employee does not have any time up vested right except to seventeen (17) weeks before receive payments for the expected date covered unemployment period. The plan provides that payments in respect of delivery.
(f) During pregnancy/parental leave a Nurse shall continue to accumulate seniority rights for all purposes and guaranteed annual remuneration or in respect of deferred remuneration or severance pay benefits are not reduced or increased by payments received under the plan. The plan is financed by the Employer must continue to make Employer contributions to pension, life insurance, accidental death, extended health and dental plans unless separate accounting record of benefits paid from the employee has advised plan will be kept by the Employer, . The Employer will inform in writing, that they do not wish Human Resources Development Canada, of any changes to continue to make the employee contributions to such plansplan within thirty (30) days after the effective date of change.
(g) Parents shall be defined to include adoptive parents and a person in a relationship of some permanence with the natural or adoptive mother or father of the child and who intends to treat the child as own.
(h) A Nurse shall have the right to a personal leave of absence without pay to commence immediately following a parental/pregnancy/ adoption leave of absence, provided the sum of all such leaves of absence do not exceed twelve continuous months per pregnancy/ adoption.
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Samples: Collective Agreement, Collective Agreement
Pregnancy/Parental Leave. Pregnancy/Parental Leave will be granted 21.01 The Board shall grant to an Occasional Teacher a maternity leave in accordance with the provisions of the Employment Standards Act as amended from time to timeProvincial requirements.
(a) The service requirement Maternity leave means unpaid leave taken for eligibility for pregnancy/parental leave shall be thirteen (13) weeksthe purpose related to giving birth.
(b) The Nurse shall An Occasional Teacher must give the Board written notification which shall include the expected date of return and a certificate from a legally qualified medical practitioner notice at least two (2) weeks in advance prior to the start of the maternity leave and provide a medical certificate indicating the expected date of commencement of such leave. This notice will be waived in the event of pregnancy complications, premature birth or the sudden coming into care of an adopted childbirth.
(c) An Occasional Teacher on maternity leave shall continue to be entitled to all rights, benefits and privileges which the employee would normally be entitled to under provisions governing maternity leave, including:
i) accumulation of credit for sick leave, and teaching experience;
ii) participation in each type of benefit plan that is related to the Teacher’s employment unless the Teacher elects in writing not to do so;
iii) The Nurse has Board shall continue to make Board’s contribution to benefit plans (if any) such as pension plans, life insurance plans, accidental death plans, extended health plans, dental plans, and disability plans unless the right Teacher gives the Board written notice that the Teacher does not intend to return to their former positionpay the employee’s contributions, if it still exists, or to a comparable position, if it does notany.
(d) The Nurse shall be granted timing and length of the leave (to a maximum of seventeen (17) weeks pregnancy leave and up to sixty-one (61weeks) weeks of parental leave. Natural mothers, if they take parental leave, must take it shall be at the end discretion of the pregnancy leave, or such time as the child comes into their care, but not more Occasional Teacher and may begin no earlier than fifty-two (52) weeks after the child is born or comes into care.
I.) waiting period.
(e) A Nurse shall be permitted to commence their pregnancy leave at any time up to seventeen (17) weeks before the expected birth date of deliveryreferred to in section b).
(fe) During pregnancy/parental leave a Nurse shall continue to accumulate seniority rights for all purposes and the Employer must continue to make Employer contributions to pension, life insurance, accidental death, extended health and dental plans unless the employee has advised the Employer, in writing, that they do not wish to continue to make the employee contributions to such plans.
(g) Parents shall be defined to include adoptive parents and a person in a relationship of some permanence with the natural or adoptive mother or father of the child and who intends to treat the child as own.
(h) A Nurse shall have the right to a personal An Occasional Teacher granted an unpaid leave of absence without pay for maternity shall not be entitled to commence immediately following a parental/pregnancy/ adoption sick leave benefits for the duration of absence, provided the sum of all such leaves of absence do not exceed twelve continuous months per pregnancy/ adoptionmaternity leave.
f) An Occasional Teacher returning from maternity leave will be returned to the Occasional Teacher List(s) in accordance with their request.
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Samples: Collective Agreement, Collective Agreement
Pregnancy/Parental Leave. Pregnancy/a) Pregnancy and Parental Leave leaves will be granted in accordance with the provisions of the Employment Standards Act as amended from time to timeof Ontario unless otherwise amended.
(ab) The service requirement for eligibility for pregnancy/An employee who is pregnant shall be entitled, upon application, to pregnancy leave and parental leave immediately thereafter. Pregnancy leave shall be thirteen (13) weeks.
(b) The Nurse shall give written notification which shall include the expected date of return and a certificate from a legally qualified medical practitioner at least two (2) weeks in advance of the date of commencement of such leave. This notice will be waived in the event of pregnancy complications, premature birth or the sudden coming into care of an adopted child.
(c) The Nurse has the right to return to their former position, if it still exists, or to a comparable position, if it does not.
(d) The Nurse shall be granted for seventeen (17) weeks pregnancy leave as provided in the Employment Standards Act and up to sixty-one (61) weeks of parental leave. Natural mothers, if they take parental leave, must take it at the end of the pregnancy leave, or such time as the child comes into their care, but not more may begin no earlier than fifty-two (52) weeks after the child is born or comes into care.
I.) waiting period.
(e) A Nurse shall be permitted to commence their pregnancy leave at any time up to seventeen (17) weeks before the expected date of delivery.
(f) During pregnancy/parental leave a Nurse birth date. The employee shall continue to accumulate seniority rights for all purposes and give the Employer must continue to make Employer contributions to pension, life insurance, accidental death, extended health and dental plans unless the employee has advised the Employer, in writing, that they do not wish to continue to make the employee contributions to such plans.
two (g2) Parents shall be defined to include adoptive parents and a person in a relationship of some permanence with the natural or adoptive mother or father written weeks notice of the child and who day upon which she intends to treat the child as own.
(h) A Nurse shall have the right to a personal leave of absence without pay to commence immediately following a parental/pregnancy/ adoption her leave of absence, provided unless impossible, and furnish the Employer with a certificate of a legally qualified medical practitioner stating that she is pregnant and giving the estimated day upon which delivery will occur.
c) Pregnancy leave shall be granted as a right.
d) The employee shall give at least two (2) weeks notice of her intention to return to work. The employee may, with the consent of the Employer, shorten the duration of the leave of absence requested under this Article upon giving the Employer two (2) weeks notice of her intention to do so and furnishing the Employer with a certificate of a legally qualified medical practitioner stating that she is able to resume her work. Additional leave of absence may be taken under Parental Leave.
e) Notwithstanding Article 18.02 (c) above, an employee must complete ten (10) months of continuous service prior to the expected date of birth to be paid a supplemental unemployment insurance benefit. That benefit will be the equivalent to the difference between seventy-five percent (75%) of her regular weekly earnings and the sum of her weekly rate of unemployment insurance benefits. In any week the total amount of SUB payments and the weekly rate of E.I. benefits will not exceed seventy-five (75%) of the employees normal weekly earnings. Such payment shall commence after the two (2) weeks unemployment insurance waiting period and shall continue while the employee is in receipt of such benefits for a maximum period of fifteen (15) weeks. Vested Interest - Employees do not have a right to SUB payments except for supplemental of E.I. benefits during the unemployment period as specified in the plan. The employee'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. Other Income - Payments in respect of guaranteed annual remuneration, deferred remuneration, or severance pay benefits are not reduced or increased by payments received under this plan. The regular hourly rate shall be calculated to include all such leaves of the employee's insurable earnings as defined by the Unemployment Insurance Act.
f) An employee who does not apply for leave of absence do not exceed twelve continuous months per pregnancy/ adoption.under Article 18.02 (b) and who is otherwise entitled to pregnancy leave, shall be entitled to and shall be granted leave of absence in accordance with Article 18.02
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Samples: Collective Agreement, Collective Agreement
Pregnancy/Parental Leave. (a) Pregnancy/Parental Leave parental leave will be granted in accordance with the provisions of the Employment Standards Act Act, as amended from time to time.
(a) The service requirement for eligibility for . During the period of pregnancy/parental leave, the Employer shall continue to pay its share of health and welfare benefit premiums outlined in appendix B. During pregnancy, adoption or parental leave an employee shall be thirteen (13) weeksaccumulate seniority and vacation time.
(b) The Nurse Where a Doctor's certificate is provided stating that a longer period of pregnancy/parental leave is required for health reasons, an extension up to a maximum of twenty-four (24) months shall give written notification which be allowed without compensation and benefits. Seniority and service benefits are to accrue for a maximum of eighteen (18) months only.
(c) When an employee intends to resume their employment after pregnancy/parental leave, they shall include provide the expected date of return and a certificate from a legally qualified medical practitioner Employer with at least two (2) weeks weeks' notice in advance of writing. On return from pregnancy / parental leave, the date of commencement of such leave. This notice will employee shall be waived in the event of pregnancy complications, premature birth or the sudden coming into care of an adopted child.
(c) The Nurse has the right to return reinstated to their former position, if it still exists, position or to provided with alternative work of a comparable position, if it does notnature at not less than their wages at the time of their leave.
(d) The Nurse On confirmation by the Employment Insurance Commission (EIC) of the appropriateness of this Supplemental Unemployment Benefit (SUB) Plan, an employee who is on pregnancy or parental leave as provided under this Article who is in receipt of Employment Insurance (El) benefits pursuant to the Employment Insurance Act, shall be granted seventeen (17) weeks pregnancy leave paid a supplemental benefit. That benefit will be the equivalent to the difference between 75% of their regular weekly earnings and up to sixty-one (61) weeks of parental leave. Natural mothers, if they take parental leave, must take it at the end of the pregnancy leave, or such time as the child comes into their care, but not more than fifty-two (52) weeks after the child is born or comes into care.
I.) waiting period.
(e) A Nurse shall be permitted to commence their pregnancy leave at any time up to seventeen (17) weeks before the expected date of delivery.
(f) During pregnancy/parental leave a Nurse shall continue to accumulate seniority rights for all purposes and the Employer must continue to make Employer contributions to pension, life insurance, accidental death, extended health and dental plans unless the employee has advised the Employer, in writing, that they do not wish to continue to make the employee contributions to such plans.
(g) Parents shall be defined to include adoptive parents and a person in a relationship of some permanence with the natural or adoptive mother or father of the child and who intends to treat the child as own.
(h) A Nurse shall have the right to a personal leave of absence without pay to commence immediately following a parental/pregnancy/ adoption leave of absence, provided the sum of all such leaves their weekly employment insurance benefit and other earnings for a maximum period of absence do not fifteen (15) weeks while the employee is in receipt of Employment Insurance benefits which includes the waiting period while waiting to receive Employment Insurance benefits. The employee's regular weekly earnings shall be determined by multiplying their regular hourly rate on their last day worked prior to the commencement of the leave times their normal working hours. In no event will the top-up exceed twelve continuous months per pregnancy/ adoptionthe difference between 75% of the employee's actual weekly rate of pay that they were receiving on the last day worked prior to the start of the leave and the employee's El benefit calculated without regard to any election by the employee to receive a lower El benefit spread over a longer period of time as may be permitted under the Employment Insurance Act.
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Samples: Collective Agreement, Collective Agreement
Pregnancy/Parental Leave. Pregnancy/Pregnancy / Parental Leave will be granted in accordance with the provisions of the Employment Standards Act as amended from time to time.
(a) The service requirement for eligibility for pregnancy/parental leave shall be thirteen (13) weeks.
(b) The Nurse nurse shall give written notification which shall include the expected date of return and a certificate from a legally qualified medical practitioner at least two (2) weeks in advance of the date of commencement of such leave. This notice will be waived in the event of pregnancy complications, premature birth or the sudden coming into care of an adopted child.
(c) The Nurse nurse has the right to return to their her former position, if it still exists, or to a comparable position, if it does not.
(d) The Nurse nurse shall be granted seventeen (17) weeks pregnancy leave and up to sixtythirty-one five (6135) weeks of parental leave. Natural mothers, if they take parental leave, must take it at the end of the pregnancy leave, or such time as the child comes into their her care, but not more than fifty-two (52) weeks after the child is born or comes into care.
I.. An adoptive parent or the father of a child is entitled to a parental leave of thirty-seven (37) weeks, inclusive of the two (2) week E.I. waiting period.
(e) A Nurse nurse shall be permitted to commence their her pregnancy leave at any time up to seventeen (17) weeks before the expected date of delivery.
(f) During pregnancy/parental leave a Nurse A nurse shall continue to accumulate seniority service rights for all purposes and the Employer must shall continue to make Employer contributions participate in the pension plan and group benefits plan unless she elects in writing not to pension, life insurance, accidental death, extended health and dental plans unless the employee has advised the Employer, in writing, that they do not wish to continue to make the employee contributions to such plansso.
(g) Parents shall be defined to include adoptive parents and a person in a relationship of some permanence with the natural or adoptive mother or father of the child and who intends to treat the child as his or her own.
(h) A Nurse nurse shall have the right to a personal leave of absence without pay to commence immediately following a parentalparental/ pregnancy/pregnancy/ adoption leave of absence, provided the sum of all such leaves of absence do not exceed twelve continuous months per pregnancy/ pregnancy/adoption.
(I) The nurse agrees to notify the Employer of her confirmation of return to work at least four (4) weeks prior to the date of return.
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Samples: Collective Agreement, Collective Agreement
Pregnancy/Parental Leave. Pregnancy/Pregnancy / Parental Leave will be granted in accordance with the provisions of the Employment Standards Act as amended from time to time.the
(a) The service requirement for eligibility for pregnancy/parental leave shall be thirteen (13) weeks.
(b) The Nurse nurse shall give written notification which shall include the expected date of return and a certificate from a legally qualified medical practitioner at least two (2) weeks in advance of the date of commencement of such leave. This notice will be waived in the event of pregnancy complications, premature birth or the sudden coming into care of an adopted child.
(c) The Nurse nurse has the right to return to their her former position, if it still exists, or to a comparable position, if it does not.
(d) The Nurse nurse shall be granted seventeen (17) weeks pregnancy leave and up to sixtythirty-one five (6135) weeks of parental leave. Natural mothers, if they take parental leave, must take it at the end of the pregnancy leave, or such time as the child comes into their her care, but not more than fifty-two (52) weeks after the child is born or comes into care.
I.. An adoptive parent or the father of a child is entitled to a parental leave of thirty-seven (37) weeks, inclusive of the two (2) week E.I. waiting period.
(e) A Nurse nurse shall be permitted to commence their her pregnancy leave at any time up to seventeen (17) weeks before the expected date of delivery.
(f) During pregnancy/parental leave a Nurse A nurse shall continue to accumulate seniority service rights for all purposes and the Employer must shall continue to make Employer contributions participate in the pension plan and group benefits plan unless she elects in writing not to pension, life insurance, accidental death, extended health and dental plans unless the employee has advised the Employer, in writing, that they do not wish to continue to make the employee contributions to such plansso.
(g) Parents shall be defined to include adoptive parents and a person in a relationship of some permanence with the natural or adoptive mother or father of the child and who intends to treat the child as his or her own.
(h) A Nurse nurse shall have the right to a personal leave of absence without pay to commence immediately following a parentalparental/ pregnancy/pregnancy/ adoption leave of absence, provided the sum of all such leaves of absence do not exceed twelve continuous months per pregnancy/ pregnancy/adoption.
(i) Effective on confirmation by the Employment Insurance Commission of the appropriateness of the Employer’s Supplemental benefit (SUB) Plan, a Nurse who is on pregnancy leave, as provided under this Agreement, who has applied for and is in receipt of Employment Insurance Pregnancy Benefits pursuant to Section 22 of the Employment Insurance Act, 1997, as amended, shall be paid a Supplemental Employment Benefit. That benefit will be equivalent to the difference between eighty-four (84%) of her regular weekly earnings and the sum of her weekly Employment Insurance Benefits and any other earnings. Such payment shall commence following completion of the two week Employment Insurance waiting period, and receipt by the Employer of the Nurse’s Employment Insurance cheque stub as proof that she is in receipt of the Employment Insurance Pregnancy Benefits, and shall continue while the Nurse is in receipt of such benefits for a maximum period of fifteen (15) weeks. The Nurse’s regular weekly earnings shall be determined by multiplying her regular working 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 of 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, Collective Agreement
Pregnancy/Parental Leave. Pregnancy/Parental Leave will be granted In accordance with the Memorandum of Settlement between the CTA and CUPE, and agreed to by the Crown, dated November 20, 2022. For clarity, in accordance with Part A, Central Terms, Letter of Understanding #2 re: Status Quo Central Items and Items Requiring Amendment and Incorporation, the following issues are not subject to local bargaining or amendment by the local parties. Any disputes arising from these provisions may form the subject of a central dispute. Maternity Benefits/SEB Plan
(a) A full-time and part-time permanent employee who is eligible for pregnancy leave pursuant to the Employment Standards Act, shall receive 100% salary through a Supplemental Employment Benefit (SEB) plan for a total of eight (8) weeks immediately following the birth of her child with no deduction from sick leave or the Short Term Leave Disability Program (STLDP).
(b) Full-time and part-time permanent Employees not eligible for a SEB plan as a result of failing to qualify for Employment Insurance will be eligible to receive 100% of salary from the employer for a total of eight (8) weeks with no deduction from sick leave or STLDP.
(c) Where any part of the eight (8) weeks falls during the period of time that is not eligible for pay (i.e. summer, March Break, etc.), the full eight (8) weeks of top up shall continue to be paid.
(d) Full-time and part-time permanent Employees who require longer than the eight (8) weeks recuperation period shall access to sick leave and the STLDP subject to meeting the requirements to provide acceptable medical verification.
(e) Employees completing a long-term supply assignment of 6 months or more shall be eligible for the SEB as described herein for a maximum of eight (8) weeks or the remaining number of weeks in their current assignment after the birth of her child, whichever is less.
(f) Employees not defined above have no entitlement of the benefits outlined in this Article.
(g) Leave of absence for pregnancy/parental reasons shall be granted as per the Employment Standards Act as amended from time to time.
(a) The service requirement for eligibility for pregnancy/parental . Such leave shall be thirteen (13) weeks.
(b) The Nurse shall give written notification which shall include the expected date without loss of return and a certificate from a legally qualified medical practitioner at least two (2) weeks in advance of the date of commencement of such leave. This notice will be waived in the event of pregnancy complications, premature birth or the sudden coming into care of an adopted child.
(c) The Nurse has the right to return to their former position, if it still exists, or to a comparable position, if it does not.
(d) The Nurse shall be granted seventeen (17) weeks pregnancy leave and up to sixty-one (61) weeks of parental leave. Natural mothers, if they take parental leave, must take it at the end of the pregnancy leave, or such time as the child comes into their care, but not more than fifty-two (52) weeks after the child is born or comes into care.
I.) waiting period.
(e) A Nurse shall be permitted to commence their pregnancy leave at any time up to seventeen (17) weeks before the expected date of delivery.
(f) During pregnancy/parental leave a Nurse shall continue to accumulate seniority rights for all purposes and the Employer must continue to make Employer contributions to pension, life insurance, accidental death, extended health and dental plans unless the employee has advised the Employer, in writing, that they do not wish to continue to make the employee contributions to such plans.
(g) Parents shall be defined to include adoptive parents and a person in a relationship of some permanence with the natural or adoptive mother or father of the child and who intends to treat the child as ownseniority.
(h) A Nurse shall have the right to Where an employee officially or legally adopts a personal child, leave of absence shall be granted as set out in the Employment Standards Act. Such leave shall be without pay loss of seniority.
(i) Prior to commence immediately following a parentalthe return from statutory pregnancy/pregnancy/ adoption parental leave of absenceperiod, provided the sum of all such leaves of absence do not exceed twelve continuous months employee shall confirm in writing, as per pregnancy/ adoptionthe Employment Standards Act, to Human Resources Services, their intention to resume duties. While on statutory pregnancy/parental leave the pregnancy leave, the employees’ position will be filled temporarily, and upon return from leave, the employee will return to their position or one to which they are qualified.
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Samples: Collective Agreement
Pregnancy/Parental Leave. Pregnancy/Where an employee elects to receive parental leave benefits on a sixty -one (61) week schedule (extended Parental Leave Leave) pursuant to Section 12(3)(b)(ii) of the Employment Insurance Act, the amount of any Supplemental Unemployment Benefit payable by the Employer will be equal to what would have been payable had the employee elected to receive parental leave benefits on a thirty -five (35) week schedule (standard Parental Leave) pursuant to Section 12(3)(b)(i) of the Employment Insurance Act.
(a) Pregnancy and Parental leaves will be granted in accordance with the provisions of the Employment Standards Act as , except where amended from time to time.
(a) The service requirement for eligibility for pregnancy/parental leave shall be thirteen (13) weeksin this provision.
(b) The Nurse If possible, the employee shall give written notification which shall include the expected date of return and a certificate from a legally qualified medical practitioner at least two one (21) weeks month in advance of the date of commencement of such leave. This notice leave and will be waived in include the event expected date of pregnancy complications, premature birth or the sudden coming into care of an adopted childreturn.
(c) The Nurse has the right employee shall reconfirm or otherwise submit their intention to return to work by written notification at least four (4) weeks in. The employee shall be reinstated to their former position, if it still exists, or to unless the position has been discontinued in which case they shall be given a comparable position, if it does notjob.
(d) The Nurse An employee shall continue to accumulate seniority and service and shall continue to be granted eligible to participate in the insurable benefits and pension plans in the same manner and under the same terms and conditions as if th e Employee were actively at work, for the period of the pregnancy leave of seventeen (17) weeks pregnancy and/or the period of the parental leave and of up to sixty-one sixty -one (61) weeks of parental leaveweeks. Natural mothersThe employee must give the Employer written notice that they do not intend to make her contributions, if they take parental leave, must take it at the end of the pregnancy leave, or such time as the child comes into their care, but not more than fifty-two (52) weeks after the child is born or comes into care.
I.) waiting periodany.
(e) A Nurse Parental leave must begin within fifty -two (52) weeks of the birth of the child or within fifty -two (52) weeks of the day the child first came into the custody, care and control of the parent. For employees on pregnancy leave, parental leave will begin immediately after pregnancy leave expires. Parental leave shall be permitted granted for up to commence their sixty -one (61) weeks in duration (63 weeks when pregnancy leave at any time up to seventeen (17) weeks before the expected date of deliveryis not taken).
(f) During pregnancy/An employee that has taken a Pregnancy Leave under this Articl e is eligible to be granted a parental leave of up to sixty -one (61) weeks duration, in accordance with the Employment Standards Act. An employee, who is eligible for parental leave in accordance with the Employment Standards Act, because they are an adopt ive parent or the natural father, will be granted a Nurse Parental leave of up to sixty -three (63) weeks. The employee shall continue to accumulate seniority rights for all purposes and the Employer must continue to make Employer contributions to pension, life insurance, accidental death, extended health and dental plans unless the employee has advised advise the Employer, in writing, that they do not wish to continue to make in advance, in accordance with subsections (b) and (c). If, because of late receipt of confirmation of t he adoption, the employee contributions finds it impossible to such plansrequest the leave of absence in writing, the request may be made verbally and subsequently verified in writing.
(g) Parents An employee who is on pregnancy leave as provided for under this Agreement who has applie d for and is in receipt of Employment Insurance pregnancy benefits pursuant to the Employment Insurance Act shall be defined paid a supplemental unemployment benefit for a period not exceeding fifteen (15) weeks. Note: there is a one -week waiting period for Employment Insurance Benefits. The supplement shall be equivalent to include adoptive parents the difference between eighty (80%) of their normal weekly earnings and a person in a relationship the sum of some permanence with their weekly unemployment insurance benefits and any ot her earnings. multiplying their regular hourly rate on their last day worked prior to the natural or adoptive mother or father commencement of the child and who intends to treat the child as ownleave times their normal weekly hours.
(h) A Nurse An employee who is on parental leave as provided for under this Agreement who has applied for and is in receipt of Employment Insurance parental benefits pursuant to the Employment Insurance Act shall have be paid a supplemental unemployment benefit for a period not exceeding ten (10) weeks. Note: there is a one -week waiting period for Employment Insurance Benefits. The supplement shall be equivalent to the right to a personal leave difference between eighty (80%) of absence without pay to commence immediately following a parental/pregnancy/ adoption leave of absence, provided their normal weekly earnings and the sum of all such leaves their weekly unemployment insuran ce benefits and any other earnings. multiplying their regular hourly rate on their last day worked prior to the commencement of absence do not exceed twelve continuous months per pregnancy/ adoptionthe leave times their normal weekly hours.
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Samples: Collective Agreement
Pregnancy/Parental Leave. Pregnancy, Pregnancy/Parental, and Parental Leave will Leaves shall be granted in accordance with the provisions Employment Standards Act.
A. The need for professional co-operation is recognized as stated in Article XXIII, Clause 23:01.
B. A Teacher shall notify the Board in writing, as soon as possible, of the desire to take a leave in accordance with The Employment Standards Act as amended from time to timeAct, stating the expected date of delivery and duration of leave.
(a) The service requirement C. Sick Leave Credit can not be deducted while a Teacher is on a statutory Pregnancy, Pregnancy/ Parental, or Parental Leave.
D. There shall be no loss in teaching experience credit for eligibility increment purposes, for a Teacher who takes a pregnancy/parental leave for up to the thirty-five (35) weeks allowed under the legislation. There shall be thirteen no loss in teaching experience credit for increment purposes for a Teacher who takes a parental leave for up to the eighteen (1318) weeks allowed under the legislation.
E. During an approved Pregnancy and/or Parental Leave of up to thirty-rive (35) weeks, or a Parental Leave of up to eighteen (18) weeks, the Board will continue to pay its share of the premiums for benefit plans listed in 7:03 for which the Teacher is enrolled, unless written notification to the contrary is received by the Manager of Payroll and Benefits at least ten (10) working days prior to commencement of leave.
F. Teachers requesting a Pregnancy and/or Parental Leave beyond the thirty-five (b) The Nurse shall give written notification which shall include the expected date of return and a certificate from a legally qualified medical practitioner at least two (235) weeks in advance allowed under the legislation. or a Teacher requesting a Parental Leave beyond the eighteen (IS) weeks under the legislation shall:
1. be responsible for the full cost of the date premiums of commencement of such leave. This notice will be waived in the event of pregnancy complications, premature birth or the sudden coming into care of an adopted childtheir benefits.
(c) The Nurse has 2. advise the right to return to their former position, if it still exists, or to a comparable position, if it does not.
(d) The Nurse shall be granted seventeen (17) weeks pregnancy leave Manager of Payroll and up to sixty-one (61) weeks of parental leave. Natural mothers, if Benefits in writing in accordance with Article 7.07 the benefits they take parental leave, must take it at the end of the pregnancy leave, or such time as the child comes into their care, but not more than fifty-two (52) weeks after the child is born or comes into care.
I.) waiting wish continued during this period.
3. not be given experience credit for that time period.
G. If at the request of the Board, a Teacher extends a Pregnancy and/or Parental Leave beyond the thirty five (e) A Nurse shall be permitted to commence their pregnancy leave at any time up to seventeen (1735) weeks before or a Parental Leave beyond the expected date of delivery.
eighteen (f18) During pregnancy/parental leave a Nurse shall weeks, the Board will continue to accumulate seniority rights for all purposes and the Employer must continue to make Employer contributions to pension, life insurance, accidental death, extended health and dental plans unless the employee has advised the Employer, in writing, that they do not wish to continue to make the employee contributions to such plans.
(g) Parents shall be defined to include adoptive parents and a person in a relationship of some permanence with the natural or adoptive mother or father pay its share of the child and who intends to treat premiums for the child as ownbenefit plans listed in 7:03 for which the Teacher is enrolled, experience credit for increment purposes will be granted for the period of extension of the leave.
(h) A Nurse shall have the right to a personal leave of absence without pay to commence immediately following a parental/pregnancy/ adoption leave of absence, provided the sum of all such leaves of absence do not exceed twelve continuous months per pregnancy/ adoption.
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Samples: Collective Agreement
Pregnancy/Parental Leave. Pregnancy/Parental Leave will A Teacher who provides medical documentation of an inability to work as related to the birthing process may access her sick leave credits to a maximum of six (6) weeks.
a) Pregnancy and/or parental leave for eligible teachers shall be granted provided in accordance with the provisions of the Employment Standards Act as amended from time to time.
(ai) The service requirement Teacher should apply to the Administrator of Human Resources for eligibility for pregnancy/pregnancy and parental leave shall be thirteen (13) weeks.
(b) The Nurse shall give written notification which shall include by the expected date 5th month of return and pregnancy. A Teacher who intends to apply for parental leave, in connection with an adoption or birth of a certificate from a legally qualified medical practitioner child will make every effort to advise the Administrator of Human Resources at least two (2) weeks three months in advance of the proposed commencement date of commencement of such the leave. This notice will be waived in the event of pregnancy complications, premature birth or the sudden coming into care of an adopted child.
(cii) The Nurse has Upon expiration of a Teacher's pregnancy and/or parental leave the right to Teacher shall return to their former positionthe position the employee most recently held with the employer, if it still exists, or to a comparable position, if it does not.
(diii) The Nurse A Teacher on pregnancy leave shall be granted accumulate a maximum of seventeen (17) weeks pregnancy of seniority recognition. A Teacher on parental leave and up to sixtyshall accumulate a maximum of thirty-one five (6135) weeks of seniority recognition pursuant to the Employment Standards Act.
iv) By June 30th, a Teacher who is returning from pregnancy and/or parental leave. Natural mothers, if they take parental leave, must take leave will be informed of his/her placement for the following school year when the leave will extend beyond the school year in which it commenced.
v) Advance notification of at least three months shall be given to the end Board of the pregnancy leaveintent to adopt, or such time as on the understanding that it may be necessary for the Teacher to commence leave immediately when the child comes into their care, but not more than fifty-two (52) weeks after becomes available. The same conditions and restrictions that apply to pregnancy/parental leave also apply for the child is born or comes into carepurpose of adoption.
I.vi) waiting period.
(e) A Nurse The Board shall be permitted maintain its contribution to commence their pregnancy leave at any time up to the monthly premiums as defined in Article VII: Benefits during the first seventeen (17) weeks before of approved pregnancy leave and the expected date first thirty-five (35) weeks of delivery.
(f) During pregnancy/approved parental leave a Nurse shall continue pursuant to accumulate seniority rights for all purposes and the Employer must continue to make Employer contributions to pension, life insurance, accidental death, extended health and dental plans unless the employee has advised the Employer, in writing, that they do not wish to continue to make the employee contributions to such plans.
(g) Parents shall be defined to include adoptive parents and a person in a relationship of some permanence with the natural or adoptive mother or father of the child and who intends to treat the child as own.
(h) A Nurse shall have the right to a personal leave of absence without pay to commence immediately following a parental/pregnancy/ adoption leave of absence, provided the sum of all such leaves of absence do not exceed twelve continuous months per pregnancy/ adoption.the
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Pregnancy/Parental Leave. Pregnancy/Pregnancy and Parental Leave will shall be granted in accordance with and subject to the provisions of requirements relating thereto and as defined in the Employment Standards Act 2000 of Ontario as amended from time to timeamended.
(a) The service requirement for eligibility for pregnancy/parental employee may end the leave shall be thirteen by giving at least four (134) weeksweeks written notice of intended date of return at any time within the seventeen (17) week Pregnancy leave or the up to sixty-three (63) week Parental leave.
(b) The Nurse shall give written notification which shall include While on pregnancy or parental leave, the expected date of return and a certificate from a legally qualified medical practitioner at least two (2) weeks employee will continue to have employer premium cost contributions made to benefit plans unless the employee has advised the Employer in advance writing that the employee does not wish to continue to make the employee premium cost contributions to any such plans. Employees who choose to continue to pay their portion of the date premium costs will make arrangements for such payment satisfactory to the Manager of commencement Finance & Administration or their designate. Where an employee does not wish to pay their portion of such leave. This notice the premium costs for benefits coverage, coverage will be waived in discontinued for the event duration of pregnancy complicationsthe leave, premature birth or and enrolment upon return to work will be subject to the sudden coming into care requirements of an adopted childthe carrier.
(c) The Nurse has the right An employee may request an extension of their pregnancy and/or parental leave up to twelve (12) months in duration.
(d) Upon return to their former positionwork, the employee shall be reinstated to the position the employee held at the time the leave commenced, if it still exists, or to a comparable position, position if it does not.
(d) The Nurse shall be granted seventeen (17) weeks pregnancy leave and up to sixty-one (61) weeks of parental leave. Natural mothers, if they take parental leave, must take it at the end wage level the employee was earning at the time of the pregnancy leave or would be earning if the employee had worked through the leave, or such time as the child comes into their care, but not more than fifty-two (52) weeks after the child is born or comes into care.
I.) waiting period.
(e) A Nurse HOOPP benefits while on maternity/parental leave:
(i) Continue regular employee pension contributions while off on leave on a monthly basis and the employer shall continue their contributions accordingly;
(ii) Opt for rapid catch-up within the first 6 months of return from a maternity and/or parental leave where pension contributions shall be permitted to commence their pregnancy leave at any time caught up to seventeen (17) weeks before for the expected date of deliveryyear’s leave. The employer shall continue contributions accordingly per HOOPP policy.
(fiii) During pregnancyOpt to not continue employee contributions during the maternity/parental leave leave, nor rapid catch-up upon return from leave. This option shall not require employer contributions and shall become a Nurse shall continue to accumulate seniority rights for all purposes and the Employer must continue to make Employer contributions to pension, life insurance, accidental death, extended health and dental plans unless buy-back year where the employee has advised can opt to later buy back the Employer, in writing, that they do not wish to continue to make full year by paying the employer and employee contributions to such plansfor the period of parental/ maternity leave.
(giv) Parents These maternity leave options listed in i, ii and iii shall be defined to include adoptive parents as updated and a person in a relationship of some permanence with the natural or adoptive mother or father of the child and who intends to treat the child as ownamended by HOOPP.
(h) A Nurse shall have the right to a personal leave of absence without pay to commence immediately following a parental/pregnancy/ adoption leave of absence, provided the sum of all such leaves of absence do not exceed twelve continuous months per pregnancy/ adoption.
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Samples: Collective Agreement
Pregnancy/Parental Leave. Pregnancy/Parental Leave leave will be granted in accordance with the provisions provision of the Employment Standards Act (ESA) as amended from time to time.time and as follows:
(a) The the service requirement for eligibility for pregnancy/parental leave shall be thirteen (13) weeks.;
(b) The Nurse the birth mother employee shall give written notification which shall include the expected date of return and a certificate from a legally qualified medical practitioner at least two (2) weeks in advance of the date of commencement of such leaveleave and the expected date of return. This notice will shall be waived in the event of pregnancy complications, premature birth or the sudden coming into care of an adopted child.;
(c) The Nurse the birth mother employee has the right to return extend the pregnancy/parental leave to their former position, if it still exists, or fifty-two (52) weeks in total. Written notice by the birth mother employee to a comparable position, if it does notextend the leave will be given at least two (2) weeks prior to the termination of the initially approved leave. This notice requirement will be shortened in circumstances where medical complications occur in the two (2) weeks prior to the termination of the initially approved leave.
(d) The Nurse All other parents shall be granted seventeen (17) weeks pregnancy leave and up to sixtythirty-one seven (6137) weeks of unpaid parental leaveleave for each parent of the child being born or coming into their care. Natural mothers, if they Birth mothers shall normally take parental leave, must take it leave at the end of the pregnancy leave, or such time as the child comes into ;
e) All other parents must begin their care, but not more parental leave no later than fifty-two (52) weeks after the child is being born or comes coming into their care.;
I.f) waiting period.
(e) A Nurse An employee shall be permitted allowed to commence their her pregnancy leave at any time anytime up to seventeen (17) weeks before the expected date of delivery.;
(f) During pregnancy/parental leave a Nurse shall continue to accumulate seniority rights for all purposes and the Employer must continue to make Employer contributions to pension, life insurance, accidental death, extended health and dental plans unless the employee has advised the Employer, in writing, that they do not wish to continue to make the employee contributions to such plans.
(g) Parents shall be defined to include adoptive parents and a person in a relationship of some permanence with the natural or adoptive mother or father of the child and who intends to treat the child as his or her own.
(h) A Nurse Seniority continues to accrue during pregnancy/parental leave. Participation in the benefit plans shall have also continue during pregnancy/parental leave unless the right employee elects, in writing, not to a personal leave of absence without pay to commence immediately following a parental/pregnancy/ adoption leave of absence, provided do so or that the sum of all such leaves of absence do employee does not exceed twelve continuous months per pregnancy/ adoptionintend her contribution towards the benefit premium.
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Samples: Collective Agreement
Pregnancy/Parental Leave. Pregnancy/Parental Leave will be granted in accordance with the provisions of the Employment Standards Act as amended from time to time.
(a) The service requirement for eligibility for pregnancy/parental leave shall be thirteen (13) weeks.
(b) The Nurse nurse shall give written notification which at least one (1) month in advance of the date of the commencement of the Leave and the notification shall include the expected date of return and a certificate from a legally qualified medical practitioner at least two (2) weeks in advance of the date of commencement of such leave. This notice will be waived in the event of pregnancy complications, premature birth or the sudden coming into care as a result of an adopted childadoption.
(c) The Nurse nurse will confirm the intention to return on the date originally approved at least four (4) weeks in advance of the return date, and has the right to return to their the former position, if it still exists, or to a comparable position, if it does not.
(d) The Nurse Each nurse/parent who has worked for the Employer for thirteen (13) weeks shall be granted seventeen (17) weeks pregnancy leave and up to sixty-one (61) weeks of unpaid parental leave if the nurse also took pregnancy leave. A nurse/parent may request a total of sixty-three (63) weeks of unpaid parental leave if they have not requested pregnancy leave. Natural mothers, if they take parental leave, must take it at the end of the pregnancy leave, or such time as the child comes into their care, but . All other parents must begin this leave not more later than fifty-two seventy- eight (5278) weeks after the child is born or comes into their care.
I.) waiting period.
(e) A Nurse nurse shall be permitted to commence their pregnancy leave at any time up to seventeen (17) weeks before the expected date of delivery.
(f) During pregnancy/parental leave a Nurse A nurse shall continue to accumulate seniority seniority, service rights for all purposes and the Employer must shall continue to make Employer contributions to pension, life insurance, accidental death, extended health participate in the pension plan and dental plans group benefits plan unless the employee has advised the Employer, nurse indicates in writing, that they writing not to do not wish to continue to make the employee contributions to such plansso.
(g) Parents shall be defined to include adoptive parents and a person in a parental relationship of some permanence with the natural or adoptive mother or father of the child and who intends to treat the child as ownchild.
(h) A Nurse nurse shall have the right to a personal leave of absence without pay to commence immediately following a parentalparental/ pregnancy/pregnancy/ adoption leave of absence, provided the sum of all such leaves of absence do not exceed twelve eighteen (18) continuous months per pregnancy/ pregnancy/adoption.
(i) A nurse who is on pregnancy leave as provided under this Collective Agreement who is in receipt of Employment Insurance pregnancy benefits pursuant to Section 18 of the Employment Insurance Act, shall be paid a supplemental unemployment benefit. That benefit will be equivalent to the difference between eighty-five percent (85%) of the regular weekly earnings and the sum of the weekly Employment 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 nurse’s Employment Insurance cheque stub as proof that the nurse is in receipt of Employment Insurance pregnancy/parental benefits, and shall continue while the nurse is in receipt of such benefits for a maximum period of fifteen (15) weeks. The nurse’s regular weekly earnings shall be determined in the same manner as defined in the Employment Standards Act. The nurse 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.
(j) The total amount of the supplemental unemployment benefit paid by the Employer shall not increase as a result of a nurse’s choice to take extended parental leave and receive a reduced Employment Insurance Benefit.
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Samples: Collective Agreement
Pregnancy/Parental Leave. Pregnancy/Parental Leave leave will be granted in accordance with the provisions of the Employment Standards Act (ESA) as amended from time to time.time and as follows:
(a) The the service requirement for eligibility for pregnancy/parental leave shall be thirteen (13) weeks.;
(b) The Nurse the nurse shall give written notification which shall include the expected date of return and a certificate from a legally qualified medical practitioner at least two (2) weeks in advance of the date of commencement of such leaveleave and the expected date of return. This notice will shall be waived in the event of pregnancy complications, premature birth or the sudden coming into care of an adopted child.;
(c) The Nurse has the right to return to their former position, if it still exists, leave of absence for pregnancy or to a comparable position, if it does not.
(d) The Nurse adoption shall be granted of seventeen (17) weeks pregnancy duration or such shorter leave and up to sixtyof absence as the nurse may request;
(d) a nurse shall be granted thirty-one five (6135) or thirty-seven (37) weeks of parental leave. Natural mothers, if they take parental leave, must subject to 11.04 (i), for each parent who has worked for thirteen (13) weeks. Natural mothers may take it parental leave at the end of the pregnancy leave, or such time as the child comes into their care, but ;
(e) all other parents must begin this leave not more later than fifty-two (52) weeks after of the child is being born or comes coming into care.
I.) waiting period.;
(ef) A Nurse a nurse shall be permitted allowed to commence their her pregnancy leave at any time anytime up to seventeen (17) weeks before the expected date of delivery.;
(fg) During the nurse has the right to extend the pregnancy/parental leave a Nurse shall continue to accumulate seniority rights for all purposes and twelve (12) months in total. Written notice by the nurse to extend the leave will be given at least four (4) weeks prior to the termination of the initially approved leave. This notice requirement will be shortened in circumstances where medical complications occur in the four (4) weeks prior to the termination of the initially approved leave. Where the nurse returns to work at the expiration of the pregnancy/parental leave, the Employer must continue to make Employer contributions to pension, life insurance, accidental death, extended health and dental plans unless shall reinstate the employee has advised nurse in the Employer, in writing, that they do not wish to continue to make nurse’s position or provide the employee contributions to such plans.nurse with alternative work of a comparable nature with no loss of wages;
(gh) Parents parents shall be defined to include adoptive parents and a person in a relationship of some permanence with the natural or adoptive mother or father of the child and who intends to treat the child as his or her own.;
(hi) A Nurse shall have on confirmation by the right to Employment Insurance Commission of the appropriateness of the Employer's Supplemental Employment Benefit (SEB) Plan, a personal leave of absence without pay to commence immediately following a nurse who is on parental/pregnancy/ adoption pregnancy leave as provided under this Agreement and who is in receipt of absenceEmployment Insurance Parental/Pregnancy benefits pursuant to Section 22 and 23 of the Employment Insurance Act, provided 1997 shall be paid a supplemental employment benefit. That benefit will be equivalent to the difference between eighty per cent (80%) of the nurse's regular weekly earnings and the sum of the nurse's weekly employment 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 nurse's employment insurance cheque stub as proof that she is in receipt of such benefits for a maximum period of fifteen (15) weeks pregnancy and fifteen (15) weeks parental leave. 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;
(j) the nurse shall be entitled to accumulate all such leaves seniority and service and shall be entitled to participate in the benefits as prescribed in the Collective Agreement;
(k) the Employer shall not terminate the employment of, or lay off a nurse because of absence do not exceed twelve continuous months per pregnancy/ adoptionparental leave.
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Samples: Collective Agreement
Pregnancy/Parental Leave. Pregnancy/Parental Leave will be granted The Board shall grant to an Occasional Teacher a maternity leave in accordance with the provisions of the Employment Standards Act as amended from time to timeProvincial requirements.
(a) The service requirement Maternity leave means unpaid leave taken for eligibility for pregnancy/parental leave shall be thirteen (13) weeksthe purpose related to giving birth.
(b) The Nurse shall An Occasional Teacher must give the Board written notification which shall include the expected date of return and a certificate from a legally qualified medical practitioner notice at least two (2) weeks in advance prior to the start of the maternity leave and provide a medical certificate indicating the expected date of commencement of such leave. This notice will be waived in the event of pregnancy complications, premature birth or the sudden coming into care of an adopted childbirth.
(c) An Occasional Teacher on maternity leave shall continue to be entitled to all rights, benefits and privileges which the employee would normally be entitled to under provisions governing maternity leave, including:
i) accumulation of credit for sick leave, and teaching experience;
ii) participation in each type of benefit plan that is related to the Teacher’s employment unless the Teacher elects in writing not to do so;
iii) The Nurse has Board shall continue to make Board’s contribution to benefit plans (if any) such as pension plans, life insurance plans, accidental death plans, extended health plans, dental plans, and disability plans unless the right Teacher gives the Board written notice that the Teacher does not intend to return to their former positionpay the employee’s contributions, if it still exists, or to a comparable position, if it does notany.
(d) The Nurse shall be granted timing and length of the leave (to a maximum of seventeen (17) weeks pregnancy leave and up to sixty-one (61weeks) weeks of parental leave. Natural mothers, if they take parental leave, must take it shall be at the end discretion of the pregnancy leave, or such time as the child comes into their care, but not more Occasional Teacher and may begin no earlier than fifty-two (52) weeks after the child is born or comes into care.
I.) waiting period.
(e) A Nurse shall be permitted to commence their pregnancy leave at any time up to seventeen (17) weeks before the expected birth date of deliveryreferred to in section b).
(fe) During pregnancy/parental leave a Nurse shall continue to accumulate seniority rights for all purposes and the Employer must continue to make Employer contributions to pension, life insurance, accidental death, extended health and dental plans unless the employee has advised the Employer, in writing, that they do not wish to continue to make the employee contributions to such plans.
(g) Parents shall be defined to include adoptive parents and a person in a relationship of some permanence with the natural or adoptive mother or father of the child and who intends to treat the child as own.
(h) A Nurse shall have the right to a personal An Occasional Teacher granted an unpaid leave of absence without pay for maternity shall not be entitled to commence immediately following a parental/pregnancy/ adoption sick leave benefits for the duration of absence, provided the sum of all such leaves of absence do not exceed twelve continuous months per pregnancy/ adoptionmaternity leave.
f) An Occasional Teacher returning from maternity leave will be returned to the Occasional Teacher List(s) in accordance with their request.
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Samples: Collective Agreement
Pregnancy/Parental Leave. Pregnancy/Parental Leave will be granted in accordance with the provisions of the Employment Standards Act as amended from time to time.
(a) The service requirement for eligibility for pregnancy/Pregnancy and parental leave leaves shall be thirteen (13) weeks.
(b) The Nurse considered as rights. No employee shall give written notification which shall include be laid off or otherwise adversely affected in employment because of pregnancy, or the expected date taking of return and a certificate from a legally qualified medical practitioner pregnancy leave or parental leave. Upon at least two (2) weeks in advance weeks' notice, pregnancy and parental leaves of absence shall be granted. These leaves shall be without pay; however, the employee shall continue to accumulate seniority. Except as modified by the Standards Act, the duration of pregnancy and parental leaves shall be to a maximum of six (6) months An employee shall provide no less than four (4) weeks' notice of the date of commencement of such day the pregnancy or parental leave ends. Upon return from pregnancy or parental leave. This notice will , the employee shall be waived in reinstated to the event of pregnancy complications, premature birth or position most recently held with the sudden coming into care of an adopted child.
(c) The Nurse has the right to return to their former positionEmployer, if it still exists. If the former position no longer exists, or to a comparable position, if it does not.
(d) The Nurse the employee shall be granted seventeen (17) weeks placed in a position of equal rank at the same rate of pay. During the employee's pregnancy leave and up to sixty-one (61) weeks of parental leave. Natural mothers, if they take or parental leave, must take it at the end of the pregnancy leave, or such time as the child comes into their care, but not more than fifty-two (52) weeks after the child is born or comes into care.
I.) waiting period.
(e) A Nurse Board shall be permitted to commence their pregnancy leave at any time up to seventeen (17) weeks before the expected date of delivery.
(f) During pregnancy/parental leave a Nurse shall continue to accumulate seniority rights for all purposes and the Employer must continue to make Employer contributions to pension, life insurance, accidental death, extended health and dental plans unless the employee has advised the Employer, in writing, that they do not wish to continue to make the employee Employer's contributions to such plans.
(g) Parents all plans outlined in Article Hospitalizationand Medical Benefits, unless the employee gives the Employer a written notice that the employee does not intend to pay the employee's contributions, if any. An employee shall be defined to include adoptive parents and granted three (3) regularly scheduled consecutive work days' leave without loss of salary or wages in conjunctionwith the death of a person parent, spouse, brother, sister, child, mother-in-law, father-in-law, sister-in-law, brother-in-law, grandparent, spouse's grandparent, grandchildren, stepmother, stepfather or any second degree relative who has been residing in a relationship of some permanence with the natural or adoptive mother or father of the child and who intends to treat the child as ownsame household.
(h) A Nurse shall have the right to a personal leave of absence without pay to commence immediately following a parental/pregnancy/ adoption leave of absence, provided the sum of all such leaves of absence do not exceed twelve continuous months per pregnancy/ adoption.
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Samples: Collective Agreement
Pregnancy/Parental Leave. Pregnancy/Parental Leave will be granted in accordance with the provisions of the Employment Standards Act as amended from time to time.
(a) The service requirement for eligibility for pregnancy/parental leave shall be thirteen (13) weeks.
(b) The Nurse shall give written notification which shall include the expected date of return and a certificate from a legally qualified medical practitioner at least two (2) weeks in advance of the date of commencement of such leave. This notice will be waived in the event of pregnancy complications, premature birth or the sudden coming into care of an adopted child.
(c) The Nurse has the right to return to their her former position, if it still exists, or to a comparable position, if it does not.
(d) The Nurse Each Nurse/parent who has worked for the same Employer for thirteen (13) weeks shall be granted seventeen eighteen (17) weeks pregnancy leave and up to sixty-one (6118) weeks of unpaid parental leave. Natural mothers, if they take parental leave, must take it at the end of the pregnancy leave, or such time as the child comes into their care, but . All other parents must begin this leave not more later than fiftythirty-two five (5235) weeks after the child is born or comes into care.
I.) waiting period.
(e) A Nurse shall be permitted to commence their her pregnancy leave at any time up to seventeen (17) weeks before the expected date of delivery.
(f) During pregnancy/parental leave a A Nurse shall continue to accumulate seniority service rights for all purposes and the Employer must shall continue to make Employer contributions participate in the pension plan and group benefits plan unless she elects in writing not to pension, life insurance, accidental death, extended health and dental plans unless the employee has advised the Employer, in writing, that they do not wish to continue to make the employee contributions to such plansso.
(g) Parents shall be defined to include adoptive parents and a person in a relationship of some permanence with the natural or adoptive mother or father of the child and who intends to treat the child as his or her own.
(h) A Nurse shall have the right to a personal leave of absence without pay to commence immediately following a parental/pregnancy/ adoption leave of absence, provided the sum of all such leaves of absence do not exceed twelve continuous months per pregnancy/ adoption.
(i) Pregnant Employees may request to be transferred from their current duties if, in the professional opinion of the Employee’s physician, the pregnancy may be at risk. If such a transfer is not feasible, the pregnant Employee, if she so requests, will be granted an unpaid leave of absence before commencement of the current contractual maternity leave.
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Samples: Collective Agreement
Pregnancy/Parental Leave.
1) Pregnancy/Adoption and Parental Leave will shall be granted in accordance with the provisions of the Employment Standards Act (the Act). The following is intended to reflect the Act as amended from time to timeamended. Where any conflict exists, the provision of the Act shall prevail.
(a) The service requirement In order to qualify for eligibility for pregnancy/pregnancy and/or parental leave shall be leave, a member must have completed at least thirteen (13) weeksweeks of continuous service with the Police Services Board.
(b) The Nurse A member subject to (a) above, shall give be entitled to a pregnancy leave of up to seventeen (17) weeks duration, provided that only one adoptive parent per family shall be entitled to pregnancy leave, and provided that the adoption results in the child coming into the care/control and custody of the adoptive parent for the first time.
c) A member is entitled to such leave provided she makes a written notification which shall include the expected date of return and application, accompanied by a certificate from a legally qualified medical practitioner practitioner, attesting as to the expected delivery date or adoption date, at least two (2) weeks in advance of prior to the date of commencement of such leave. This notice will be waived in the event of pregnancy complications, premature birth or the sudden coming into care of an adopted child.
(c) The Nurse has the right to return to their former position, if it still exists, or to a comparable position, if it does not.
(d) The Nurse shall be granted Pregnancy/adoption leave may commence at any time within seventeen (17) weeks pregnancy of the expected delivery date or adoption date.
d) Where a medical emergency prevents the giving of two (2) weeks notice, the member may, nonetheless, commence her pregnancy/adoption leave and provided however, that she provide, to the Chief, within two (2) weeks of the commencement of her leave a certificate from a duly qualified medical practitioner, attesting to the delivery date or adoption date, or expected delivery date or expected adoption date.
e) A member, who qualifies under (a) above, may make application at any time prior to two (2) weeks before the termination of her pregnancy/adoption leave, for a parental leave of up to sixty-one (61) weeks duration, commencing immediately upon the termination of parental her pregnancy/adoption leave. Natural mothers.
f) The total leave available under clauses (b) and (e) shall be seventy-eight (78) weeks, if they take parental leave, must take it at the end of the pregnancy leave, or such time as the child comes into their care, but not more ending no later than fiftyseventy-two eight (5278) weeks after the child is born or comes into carebirth of the child.
I.g) waiting periodA member, subject to (a) above, who is the parent of a child not entitled to pregnancy/adoption leave, shall be entitled upon giving at least two (2) weeks written notice to up to sixty-three (63) weeks of parental leave.
h) Parental leave under (eg) A Nurse shall be permitted to above may commence their pregnancy leave at any time up to seventeen (17) weeks before the expected date of delivery.
(f) During pregnancy/parental leave a Nurse shall continue to accumulate seniority rights for all purposes and the Employer must continue to make Employer contributions to pension, life insurance, accidental death, extended health and dental plans unless the employee has advised the Employer, in writing, that they do not wish to continue to make the employee contributions to such plans.
(g) Parents shall be defined to include adoptive parents and a person in a relationship of some permanence with the natural or adoptive mother or father of the child and who intends to treat the child as own.
(h) A Nurse shall have the right to a personal leave of absence without pay to commence immediately following a parental/pregnancy/ adoption leave of absence, provided the sum of all such leaves of absence do not exceed twelve continuous months per pregnancy/ adoption.seventy-eight
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Samples: Collective Agreement
Pregnancy/Parental Leave. Pregnancy/Parental Leave will A Teacher who provides medical documentation of an inability to work as related to the birthing process may access her sick leave credits to a maximum of six (6) weeks.
a) Pregnancy and/or parental leave for eligible teachers shall be granted provided in accordance with the provisions of the Employment Standards Act as amended from time to time.
(ai) The service requirement Teacher should apply to the Administrator of Human Resources for eligibility for pregnancy/pregnancy and parental leave shall be thirteen (13) weeks.
(b) The Nurse shall give written notification which shall include by the expected date 5th month of return and pregnancy. A Teacher who intends to apply for pregnancy and/or parental leave, in connection with an adoption or birth of a certificate from a legally qualified medical practitioner child will make every effort to advise the Administrator of Human Resources at least two (2) weeks three months in advance of the proposed commencement date of commencement of such the leave. This notice will be waived in the event of pregnancy complications, premature birth or the sudden coming into care of an adopted child.
(cii) The Nurse has Upon a Teacher's return from statutory pregnancy and/or parental leave the right to Teacher shall return to their former positionthe position the employee most recently held, if it still exists. Should the position no longer exist, or the Teacher shall return to a comparable positionposition at the same location, if it does notsubject to surplus and redundancy provisions.
(diii) By June 30th, a Teacher who is returning from pregnancy and/or parental leave will be informed of his/her placement for the following school year when the leave will extend beyond the school year in which it commenced.
iv) Advance notification of at least three months shall be given to the Board of the intent to adopt, on the understanding that it may be necessary for the Teacher to commence leave immediately when the child becomes available. The same conditions and restrictions that apply to pregnancy/parental leave also apply for the purpose of adoption.
v) The Nurse Board shall be granted maintain its contribution to the monthly premiums as defined in Article VII: Benefits during the first seventeen (17) weeks of approved pregnancy leave and up to sixtythe first thirty-one five (6135) weeks of approved parental leaveleave pursuant to the Employment Standards Act. Natural mothersFor Teachers employed less than a fulltime contract and who are eligible and choose to participate, if they take parental leave, must take it at the end Board will pro- rate the percentage of its contribution towards the cost of the pregnancy leave, or such time monthly premiums as defined in Article VII: Benefits during the child comes into their care, but not more than fifty-two (52) weeks after the child is born or comes into care.
I.) waiting period.
(e) A Nurse shall be permitted to commence their pregnancy leave at any time up to first seventeen (17) weeks before of approved pregnancy leave and during the expected first thirty-five (35) weeks of approved parental leave.
vi) The Board shall provide a Supplemental Employment Benefit (S.E.B.) Plan as described in sub-clause c herein, to Teachers on Pregnancy/Parental leave, including leaves for adoption purposes. Any changes to this Plan as agreed to by the Board and the Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxxxxxx Unit of OECTA shall be communicated by the Board to Service Canada within thirty days of the effective date of deliveryany such change in accordance with the Regulations.
(fvii) During pregnancyTeachers returning from the statutory provisions of Pregnancy/Parental leave, shall be exempt from being transferred from their assigned school in their year of returning, except for special circumstances as determined by the Administrator of Human Resources.
b) i) A teacher on the pregnancy and parental leave a Nurse shall continue to accumulate seniority rights for all purposes and the Employer must continue to make Employer contributions to pension, life insurance, accidental death, extended health and dental plans unless the employee has advised the Employer, in writing, that they do not wish to continue to make the employee contributions to such plans.
(g) Parents shall be defined to include adoptive parents and a person in a relationship of some permanence with the natural or adoptive mother or father provision of the child and who intends to treat the child as own.
(h) A Nurse shall have the right to Employment Standards Act shall, upon written notice, be granted a personal further leave of absence without pay for up to commence immediately following one (1) year on a parental/pregnancy/ adoption full time or part time basis. The teacher shall give notice to the Board, in writing prior to April 1st of the year in which the statutory provisions of the employment Standards Act are to end.
ii) A Teacher returning from leave of absenceabsence must notify the Board one month prior to the end of the term immediately preceding the term in which a Teacher plans to return.
iii) Upon expiration of the extended leave identified above, provided the sum of all such leaves of absence do not exceed twelve continuous months per pregnancy/ adoptionTeacher shall be guaranteed a position within the system for which they are qualified.
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Samples: Collective Agreement
Pregnancy/Parental Leave. Pregnancy/Parental Leave terms
a) Permanent teachers who are, or will be by the commencement date of the pregnancy/parental leave employed under a permanent contract shall be eligible for a pregnancy/parental leave not exceeding twenty-four months (when combined with a parenting leave) from the initiation of the leave, except as provided in Article 25.7.
b) Such leave shall expire on August 31, unless the leave commenced after the winter Break in which case the leave may, at the discretion of the teacher, be extended to expire on December 31 in the case of a teacher who takes pregnancy/parental leave not exceeding twelve months. In no case may the teacher return to duty from such a leave except on the first school day of September or January, as provided in this Section.
c) When the leaves requested by the teacher and granted by the Employer extends beyond either the seventeen weeks of pregnancy leave and the maximum of 61 weeks for parental leave or 63 weeks of parental leave if pregnancy leave is not taken, as provided for in Part XIV of the Employment Standards Act, the teacher shall notify the Principal of the School in writing not later than five working days prior to the beginning of the March break in the year prior to return specifying the date upon which they will return to their duty.
d) As an alternative to the pregnancy/parental leave provided for in this Article, a permanent teacher employed under a permanent contract may elect to have a pregnancy/parental leave for a period not to exceed seventeen weeks. Such an election shall be communicated to the Employer by the teacher in writing at least four months prior to the date of commencement and termination of the leave. A pregnancy/parental leave shall not terminate within three weeks of end of term or within six weeks of end of the school year. Such a leave of absence, subject to the provisions hereof, shall be regulated in accordance with the provisions of the Employment Standards Act as amended from time to timeAct.
(ae) The service requirement for eligibility for Every teacher requesting pregnancy/parental leave shall be thirteen must apply in writing to the Principal at least five months (13or such shorter period as is provided by law) weeksbefore the estimated date of birth or adoption, as applicable. In the application the teacher should state when the desired leave will begin and end.
(bf) The Nurse shall give written notification which shall include the expected date of return and a certificate from a legally qualified medical practitioner at least two (2) weeks in advance of Whenever possible, the date of commencement of such leave. This notice will be waived in the event of pregnancy complications, premature birth or the sudden coming into care of an adopted child.
(c) The Nurse has the right to return to their former position, if it still exists, or to a comparable position, if it does not.
(d) The Nurse commencing leave shall be granted seventeen (17) weeks pregnancy leave and up to sixty-one (61) weeks of parental leave. Natural mothers, if they take parental leave, must take it at determined by agreement between the end of the pregnancy leave, or such time as the child comes into their care, but not more than fifty-two (52) weeks after the child is born or comes into care.
I.) waiting period.
(e) A Nurse shall be permitted to commence their pregnancy leave at any time up to seventeen (17) weeks before the expected date of delivery.
(f) During pregnancy/parental leave a Nurse shall continue to accumulate seniority rights for all purposes teacher and the Employer must continue to make Employer contributions to pension, life insurance, accidental death, extended health and dental plans unless the employee has advised the Employer, in writing, that they do not wish to continue to make the employee contributions to such plansPrincipal. Such leave shall normally commence on September 1 or January 1.
(g) Parents shall be defined to include adoptive parents and a person in a relationship of some permanence with the natural or adoptive mother or father of the child and who intends to treat the child as own.
(h) A Nurse shall have the right to a personal leave of absence without pay to commence immediately following a parental/pregnancy/ adoption leave of absence, provided the sum of all such leaves of absence do not exceed twelve continuous months per pregnancy/ adoption.
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Samples: Collective Agreement
Pregnancy/Parental Leave. Pregnancy/Pregnancy / Parental Leave will be granted in accordance with the provisions of the Employment Standards Act as amended from time to time.
(a) The service requirement for eligibility for pregnancy/parental leave shall be thirteen (13) weeks.
(b) The Nurse nurse shall give written notification which at least one (1) month in advance of the date of the commencement of the Leave and the notification shall include the expected date of return and a certificate from a legally qualified medical practitioner at least two (2) weeks in advance of the date of commencement of such leave. This notice will be waived in the event of pregnancy complications, premature birth or the sudden coming into care as a result of an adopted childadoption.
(c) The Nurse nurse will confirm the intention to return on the date originally approved at least four (4) weeks in advance of the return date, and has the right to return to their the former position, if it still exists, or to a comparable position, if it does not.
(d) The Nurse Each nurse/parent who has worked for the Employer for thirteen (13) weeks shall be granted seventeen (17) weeks pregnancy leave and up to sixty-one (61) weeks of unpaid parental leave if the nurse also took pregnancy leave. A nurse/parent may request a total of sixty-three (63) weeks of unpaid parental leave if they have not requested pregnancy leave. Natural mothers, if they take parental leave, must take it at the end of the pregnancy leave, or such time as the child comes into their care, but . All other parents must begin this leave not more later than fiftyseventy-two eight (5278) weeks after the child is born or comes into their care.
I.) waiting period.
(e) A Nurse nurse shall be permitted to commence their pregnancy leave at any time up to seventeen (17) weeks before the expected date of delivery.
(f) During pregnancy/parental leave a Nurse A nurse shall continue to accumulate seniority seniority, service rights for all purposes and the Employer must shall continue to make Employer contributions to pension, life insurance, accidental death, extended health participate in the pension plan and dental plans group benefits plan unless the employee has advised the Employer, nurse indicates in writing, that they writing not to do not wish to continue to make the employee contributions to such plansso.
(g) Parents shall be defined to include adoptive parents and a person in a parental relationship of some permanence with the natural or adoptive mother or father of the child and who intends to treat the child as ownchild.
(h) A Nurse nurse shall have the right to a personal leave of absence without pay to commence immediately following a parentalparental/ pregnancy/pregnancy/ adoption leave of absence, provided the sum of all such leaves of absence do not exceed twelve eighteen (18) continuous months per pregnancy/ pregnancy/adoption.
(i) A nurse who is on pregnancy leave as provided under this Collective Agreement who is in receipt of Employment Insurance pregnancy benefits pursuant to Section 18 of the Employment Insurance Act, shall be paid a supplemental unemployment benefit. That benefit will be equivalent to the difference between eighty-five percent (85%) of the regular weekly earnings and the sum of the weekly Employment 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 nurse’s Employment Insurance cheque stub as proof that the nurse is in receipt of Employment Insurance pregnancy/parental benefits, and shall continue while the nurse is in receipt of such benefits for a maximum period of fifteen (15) weeks. The nurse’s regular weekly earnings shall be determined in the same manner as defined in the Employment Standards Act. The nurse 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.
(j) The total amount of the supplemental unemployment benefit paid by the Employer shall not increase as a result of a nurse’s choice to take extended parental leave and receive a reduced Employment Insurance Benefit.
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Samples: Collective Agreement
Pregnancy/Parental Leave. Pregnancy/Parental Leave will a) Teachers who are eligible for pregnancy and/or parental leave under the Employment Standards Act in connection with the birth or adoption of a child, shall be granted given adequate pregnancy and/or parental leave in accordance with the provisions following provisions:
i) The Teacher shall choose one of the Employment Standards Act as amended from time to timefollowing plans: Plan A or Plan B.
ii) Any change in choice of plans shall be arrived at only by mutual consent of said Teacher and the Board.
(aiii) The service requirement Teacher should apply to the Administrator of Human Resources for eligibility for pregnancy/pregnancy and parental leave shall be thirteen (13) weeks.
(b) The Nurse shall give written notification which shall include by the expected date 5th month of return and pregnancy. A Teacher who intends to apply for parental leave, in connection with an adoption or birth of a certificate from a legally qualified medical practitioner child will make every effort to advise the Administrator of Human Resources at least two (2) weeks three months in advance of the proposed commencement date of commencement of such the leave. This notice will be waived in the event of pregnancy complications, premature birth or the sudden coming into care of an adopted child.
(civ) The Nurse has Upon expiration of a Teacher's pregnancy and/or parental leave according to the right to terms of Plan A, the Teacher shall return to their former positionthe position the employee most recently held with the employer, if it still exists, or to a comparable position, if it does not.
(dv) The Nurse A Teacher on pregnancy leave shall be granted accumulate a maximum of seventeen (17) weeks pregnancy of seniority recognition. A Teacher on parental leave and up to sixtyshall accumulate a maximum of thirty-one five (6135) weeks of seniority recognition pursuant to the Employment Standards Act.
vi) By June 30th, a Teacher who is returning from pregnancy and/or parental leave. Natural mothers, if they take parental leave, must take leave will be informed of his/her placement for the following school year when the leave will extend beyond the school year in which it commenced.
vii) Advance notification of at least three months shall be given to the end Board of the pregnancy leaveintent to adopt, or such time as on the understanding that it may be necessary for the Teacher to commence leave immediately the child comes into their care, but not more than fifty-two (52) weeks after becomes available. The same conditions and restrictions that apply to pregnancy/parental leave also apply for the child is born or comes into carepurpose of adoption.
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(e) A Nurse Effective September 1, 1991 the Board shall be permitted maintain its contribution to commence their pregnancy leave at any time up to the monthly premiums as defined in Article VII: Benefits during the first seventeen (17) weeks before the expected date of delivery.
(f) During pregnancy/parental approved pregnancy leave a Nurse shall continue to accumulate seniority rights for all purposes and the Employer must continue to make Employer contributions to pension, life insurance, accidental death, extended health and dental plans unless the employee has advised the Employer, in writing, that they do not wish to continue to make the employee contributions to such plans.
(g) Parents shall be defined to include adoptive parents and a person in a relationship of some permanence with the natural or adoptive mother or father of the child and who intends to treat the child as own.
(h) A Nurse shall have the right to a personal leave of absence without pay to commence immediately following a parental/pregnancy/ adoption leave of absence, provided the sum of all such leaves of absence do not exceed twelve continuous months per pregnancy/ adoption.first thirty-five
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Pregnancy/Parental Leave. Pregnancy/Parental Leave parental leave will be granted in accordance with the provisions of the Employment Standards Act (ESA) as amended from time to time.:
(a) The service requirement for eligibility for pregnancy/parental leave shall be thirteen (13) weeksweeks prior to the expected date of birth.
(b) The Nurse employee shall give written notification which shall include the expected date of return and a certificate from a legally qualified medical practitioner at least two (2) weeks in advance of the date of commencement of such leaveleave and the expected date of return. This notice will shall be waived in the event of pregnancy complications, premature birth pre- mature birth, or the sudden coming into care of an adopted child.
(c) The Nurse has the right to return to their former position, if it still exists, or to a comparable position, if it does not.
(d) The Nurse An employee shall be granted seventeen (17) weeks pregnancy of unpaid parental leave and up to sixty-one for each parent who has worked for thirteen (6113) weeks of parental leaveweeks. Natural mothers, if they mothers may take parental leave, must take it leave at the end of the pregnancy leave. In addition, or such time as and if applicable, if further leave is required by the adoption agency concerned the Employer shall grant a further extension for a period of up to three months.
(d) All other parents must begin parental leave within seventy-eight (78) weeks of the child comes into their care, but not more than fifty-two (52) weeks after the child is being born or comes coming into care.
I.) waiting period.
(e) A Nurse An employee shall be permitted allowed to commence their her pregnancy leave at any time up to seventeen (17) weeks before the expected date of delivery, and shall be seventeen (17) weeks in duration. Such parental leave may be extended to sixty-one (61) weeks upon application in writing made at least two (2) weeks prior to the expiration of the leave.
(f) During pregnancy/parental leave a Nurse shall continue to accumulate seniority rights for all purposes and the Employer must continue to make Employer contributions to pension, life insurance, accidental death, extended health and dental plans unless the employee has advised the Employer, in writing, that they do not wish to continue to make the employee contributions to such plans.
(g) Parents shall be defined to include adoptive parents and a person in a the relationship of some permanence with the natural or adoptive mother or father of the child and who intends to treat the child as his or her own. Such Parental leave shall be granted up to sixty-three (63) weeks.
(hg) A Nurse After confirmation by the Employment Insurance Commission of the appropriateness of the Supplemental Unemployment Benefit (SUB) Plan, an employee who commences a leave as set out above who is in receipt of employment insurance pregnancy benefits pursuant to Section 30 of the Employment Insurance Act, 1971, shall have be paid a supplemental unemployment benefit. That benefit will be equivalent to the right to a personal leave difference between seventy-five percent (75%) of absence without pay to commence immediately following a parental/pregnancy/ adoption leave of absence, provided her regular weekly earnings and the sum of all her weekly employment insurance benefits and other earnings. Such payment shall commence following completion of the one (1) week employment insurance waiting period, during which time she shall receive seventy-five percent (75%) of her regular weekly earnings, and receipt by the Employer of the employee's employment insurance cheque stub as proof that she is in receipt of employment insurance pregnancy benefits and shall continue while the employee is in receipt of such leaves benefits for a maximum period of absence do not exceed twelve continuous months per pregnancy/ adoption.sixteen (16)
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Samples: Collective Agreement
Pregnancy/Parental Leave. Pregnancy/Parental Leave will be granted in accordance with the provisions of the Employment Standards Act as Act, except where amended from time to timein this provision.
(a) The service requirement for eligibility for pregnancy/parental leave shall be thirteen (13) weeks.
(b) The Nurse If possible, the employee shall give written notification which shall include the expected date of return and a certificate from a legally qualified medical practitioner at least two one (21) weeks month in advance of the date of commencement of such leaveleave and the expected date of return. This notice will shall be waived in the event of pregnancy complications, premature birth or the sudden coming into care of an adopted child.
(c) The Nurse has the right employee shall reconfirm her intention to return to their work on the date originally approved in subsection (a) above by written notification received by the Employer at least four (4) weeks in advance thereof. The employee shall be reinstated to her former position, if it still exists, or to unless the position has been discontinued in which case she shall be given a comparable position, if it does notjob.
(d) Employees newly hired to replace employees who are on approved pregnancy/parental leave may be released and such release shall not be the subject of a grievance or arbitration. The Nurse Employer will outline to employees hired to fill such temporary vacancies the circumstances giving rise to the vacancy and the special conditions relating to such employment.
(e) An employee shall be granted seventeen thirty-five (17) weeks pregnancy leave and up to sixty-one (6135) weeks of unpaid parental leaveleave for each parent who has worked for the same employer for thirteen (13) weeks. Natural mothers, if they mothers may take parental leave, must take it leave at the end of the pregnancy leave, or such time as . All other parents may take this leave within thirty-five (35) weeks of the child comes into their care, but not more than fifty-two (52) weeks after the child is being born or comes coming into care.
I.(f) waiting period.
(e) A Nurse An employee shall be permitted allowed to commence their pregnancy leave at any time anytime up to seventeen (17) weeks before the expected date of delivery.
(fg) During The employee has the right to extend the pregnancy/parental leave a Nurse shall continue to accumulate seniority rights for all purposes and the Employer must continue to make Employer contributions to pension, life insurance, accidental death, extended health and dental plans unless the employee has advised the Employer, in writing, that they do not wish to continue to make the employee contributions to such plans.
(g) Parents shall be defined to include adoptive parents and a person in a relationship of some permanence with the natural or adoptive mother or father of the child and who intends to treat the child as own.
(h) A Nurse shall have the right to a personal leave of absence without pay to commence immediately following a parental/pregnancy/ adoption leave of absence, provided the sum of all such leaves of absence do not exceed twelve continuous months per pregnancy/ adoption.twelve
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Samples: Collective Agreement
Pregnancy/Parental Leave. Pregnancy/Pregnancy / Parental Leave will be granted in accordance with the provisions of the Employment Standards Act as amended from time to time.
(a) The service requirement for eligibility for pregnancy/parental leave shall be thirteen (13) weeks.
(b) The Nurse nurse shall give written notification which shall include the expected date of return and a certificate from a legally qualified medical practitioner at least two (2) weeks in advance of the date of commencement of such leave. This notice will be waived in the event of pregnancy complications, premature birth or the sudden coming into care of an adopted child.
(c) The Nurse nurse has the right to return to their her former position, if it still exists, or to a comparable position, if it does not.
(d) The Nurse Each nurse/parent who has worked for the same Employer for thirteen (13) weeks shall be granted seventeen eighteen (17) weeks pregnancy leave and up to sixty-one (6118) weeks of unpaid parental leave. Natural mothers, if they take parental leave, must take it at the end of the pregnancy leave, or such time as the child comes into their care, but . All other parents must begin this leave not more later than fiftythirty-two five (5235) weeks after the child is born or comes into care.
I.) waiting period.
(e) A Nurse nurse shall be permitted to commence their her pregnancy leave at any time up to seventeen (17) weeks before the expected date of delivery.
(f) During pregnancy/parental leave a Nurse A nurse shall continue to accumulate seniority service rights for all purposes and the Employer must shall continue to make Employer contributions participate in the pension plan and group benefits plan unless she elects in writing not to pension, life insurance, accidental death, extended health and dental plans unless the employee has advised the Employer, in writing, that they do not wish to continue to make the employee contributions to such plansso.
(g) Parents shall be defined to include adoptive parents and a person in a relationship of some permanence with the natural or adoptive mother or father of the child and who intends to treat the child as his or her own.
(h) A Nurse nurse shall have the right to a personal leave of absence without pay to commence immediately following a parentalparental/ pregnancy/pregnancy/ adoption leave of absence, provided the sum of all such leaves of absence do not exceed twelve continuous months per pregnancy/ pregnancy/adoption.
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Samples: Collective Agreement
Pregnancy/Parental Leave. Pregnancy/Pregnancy / Parental Leave will be granted in accordance with the provisions of the Employment Standards Act as amended from time to time.
(a) The service requirement for eligibility for pregnancy/parental leave shall be thirteen (13) weeks.
(b) The Nurse nurse shall give written notification which at least one (1) month in advance of the date of the commencement of the Leave and the notification shall include the expected date of return and a certificate from a legally qualified medical practitioner at least two (2) weeks in advance of the date of commencement of such leave. This notice will be waived in the event of pregnancy complications, premature birth or the sudden coming into care as a result of an adopted childadoption.
(c) The Nurse nurse will confirm the intention to return on the date originally approved at least four (4) weeks in advance of the return date, and has the right to return to their the former position, if it still exists, or to a comparable position, if it does not.
(d) The Nurse Each nurse/parent who has worked for the Employer for thirteen (13) weeks shall be granted seventeen thirty-five (17) weeks pregnancy leave and up to sixty-one (6135) weeks of unpaid parental leave if the nurse also took pregnancy leave. A nurse/parent may request a total of thirty-seven (37) weeks of unpaid parental leave if they have not requested pregnancy leave. Natural mothers, if they take parental leave, must take it at the end of the pregnancy leave, or such time as the child comes into their care, but . All other parents must begin this leave not more later than fifty-two (52) weeks after the child is born or comes into their care.
I.) waiting period.
(e) A Nurse nurse shall be permitted to commence their pregnancy leave at any time up to seventeen (17) weeks before the expected date of delivery.
(f) During pregnancy/parental leave a Nurse A nurse shall continue to accumulate seniority seniority, service rights for all purposes and the Employer must shall continue to make Employer contributions to pension, life insurance, accidental death, extended health participate in the pension plan and dental plans group benefits plan unless the employee has advised the Employer, nurse indicates in writing, that they writing not to do not wish to continue to make the employee contributions to such plansso.
(g) Parents shall be defined to include adoptive parents and a person in a parental relationship of some permanence with the natural or adoptive mother or father of the child and who intends to treat the child as ownchild.
(h) A Nurse nurse shall have the right to a personal leave of absence without pay to commence immediately following a parentalparental/ pregnancy/pregnancy/ adoption leave of absence, provided the sum of all such leaves of absence do not exceed twelve continuous months per pregnancy/ pregnancy/adoption.
(i) A nurse who is on pregnancy leave as provided under this Collective Agreement who is in receipt of Employment Insurance pregnancy benefits pursuant to Section 18 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 the regular weekly earnings and the sum of the weekly Employment Insurance benefits and any other earnings. Such payment shall commence following completion of the two week Employment Insurance waiting period, and receipt by the Employer of the nurse’s Employment Insurance cheque stub as proof that the nurse is in receipt of Employment Insurance pregnancy/parental benefits, and shall continue while the nurse is in receipt of such benefits for a maximum period of fifteen (15) weeks. The nurse’s regular weekly earnings shall be determined in the same manner as defined in the Employment Standards Act. The nurse 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
Pregnancy/Parental Leave. Pregnancy/Pregnancy / Parental Leave will be granted in accordance with the provisions of the Employment Standards Act as amended from time to time.the
(a) The service requirement for eligibility for pregnancy/parental leave shall be thirteen (13) weeks.
(b) The Nurse nurse shall give written notification which shall include the expected date of return and a certificate from a legally qualified medical practitioner at least two (2) weeks in advance of the date of commencement of such leave. This notice will be waived in the event of pregnancy complications, premature birth or the sudden coming into care of an adopted child.
(c) The Nurse nurse has the right to return to their her former position, if it still exists, or to a comparable position, if it does not.
(d) The Nurse nurse shall be granted seventeen (17) weeks pregnancy leave and up to sixtythirty-one five (6135) weeks of parental leave. Natural mothers, if they take parental leave, must take it at the end of the pregnancy leave, or such time as the child comes into their her care, but not more than fifty-two (52) weeks after the child is born or comes into care.
I.. An adoptive parent or the father of a child is entitled to a parental leave of thirty-seven (37) weeks, inclusive of the two (2) week E.I. waiting period.
(e) A Nurse nurse shall be permitted to commence their her pregnancy leave at any time up to seventeen (17) weeks before the expected date of delivery.
(f) During pregnancy/parental leave a Nurse A nurse shall continue to accumulate seniority service rights for all purposes and the Employer must shall continue to make Employer contributions participate in the pension plan and group benefits plan unless she elects in writing not to pension, life insurance, accidental death, extended health and dental plans unless the employee has advised the Employer, in writing, that they do not wish to continue to make the employee contributions to such plansso.
(g) Parents shall be defined to include adoptive parents and a person in a relationship of some permanence with the natural or adoptive mother or father of the child and who intends to treat the child as his or her own.
(h) A Nurse nurse shall have the right to a personal leave of absence without pay to commence immediately following a parentalparental/ pregnancy/pregnancy/ adoption leave of absence, provided the sum of all such leaves of absence do not exceed twelve continuous months per pregnancy/ pregnancy/adoption.
(i) Effective on confirmation by the Employment Insurance Commission of the appropriateness of the Employer’s Supplemental benefit (SUB) Plan, a Nurse who is on pregnancy leave, as provided under this Agreement, who has applied for and is in receipt of Employment Insurance Pregnancy Benefits pursuant to Section 22 of the Employment Insurance Act, 1997, as amended, shall be paid a Supplemental Employment Benefit. That benefit will be equivalent to the difference between seventy-five (75%) of her regular weekly earnings and the sum of her weekly Employment Insurance Benefits and any other earnings. Such payment shall commence following completion of the two week Employment Insurance waiting period, and receipt by the Employer of the Nurse’s Employment Insurance cheque stub as proof that she is in receipt of the Employment Insurance Pregnancy Benefits, and shall continue while the Nurse is in receipt of such benefits for a maximum period of fifteen (15) weeks. The Nurse’s regular weekly earnings shall be determined by multiplying her regular working 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 of 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
Pregnancy/Parental Leave. Pregnancy/Pregnancy / Parental Leave will be granted in accordance with the provisions of the Employment Standards Act as amended from time to time.
(a) The service requirement for eligibility for pregnancy/parental leave shall be thirteen (13) weeks.
(b) The Nurse shall give written notification which shall include the expected date of return and a certificate from a legally qualified medical practitioner at least two (2) weeks in advance of the date of commencement of such leave. This notice will be waived in the event of pregnancy complications, premature birth or the sudden coming into care of an adopted child.
(c) The Nurse has the right to return to their former position, if it still exists, or to a comparable position, if it does not.
(d) The Nurse shall be granted seventeen (17) weeks pregnancy leave and up to sixty-one (61) weeks of parental leave. Natural mothers, if they take parental leave, must take it at the end of the pregnancy leave, or such time as the child comes into their care, but not more than fifty-two (52) weeks after the child is born or comes into care.
I.) waiting period.
(e) A Nurse shall be permitted to commence their pregnancy leave at any time up to seventeen (17) weeks before the expected date of delivery.
(f) During pregnancy/parental leave a Nurse shall continue to accumulate seniority rights for all purposes and the Employer must continue to make Employer contributions to pension, life insurance, accidental death, extended health and dental plans unless the employee has advised the Employer, in writing, that they do not wish to continue to make the employee contributions to such plans.
(g) Parents shall be defined to include adoptive parents and a person in a relationship of some permanence with the natural or adoptive mother or father of the child and who intends to treat the child as own.
(h) A Nurse shall have the right to a personal leave of absence without pay to commence immediately following a parentalparental/ pregnancy/pregnancy/ adoption leave of absence, provided the sum of all such leaves of absence do not exceed twelve continuous months per pregnancy/ pregnancy/adoption.
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Samples: Collective Agreement
Pregnancy/Parental Leave. (a) Pregnancy/Parental Leave leave will be granted in accordance with the provisions of the Employment Standards Act as Act, except where amended from time to timein this provision.
(ab) The service requirement for eligibility for pregnancy/parental leave shall be A pregnant nurse whose date falls at least thirteen (13) weeks after she commenced employment is entitled to pregnancy leave of seventeen (17) weeks.
(bc) The Nurse If possible, the nurse shall give written notification which shall include the expected date of return and a certificate from a legally qualified medical practitioner at least two one (21) weeks month in advance of the date of commencement of such leave. This notice will be waived in leave and the event expected date of pregnancy complications, premature birth or the sudden coming into care of an adopted child.
(c) The Nurse has the right to return to their former position, if it still exists, or to a comparable position, if it does notreturn.
(d) The Nurse nurse shall reconfirm her intention to return to work on the date originally approved in subsection (b) above by written notification 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 given a comparable job.
(e) A nurse who becomes a parent and who has been employed for at least thirteen (13) weeks immediately preceding the date the leave begins shall be entitled to parental leave.
(f) Parental leave must begin within fifty-two (52) weeks of the birth of the child or within fifty-two (52) weeks of the day the child first came into custody, care and control of the parent or for nurses who take pregnancy leave, parental leave will begin immediately after the pregnancy leave expires, unless the child has not yet come into her custody, care and control for the first time. Parental leave shall be granted seventeen (17) weeks pregnancy leave and for up to sixty-one (61) weeks of parental leave. Natural mothers, if they take parental leave, must take it at the end of the in duration for nurses who also took pregnancy leave, or such time as the child comes into their care, but not more than fiftyleave and for up to sixty-two three (5263) weeks after the child is born or comes into care.
I.) waiting period.
(e) A Nurse shall be permitted to commence their pregnancy leave at any time up to seventeen (17) weeks before the expected date of delivery.
(f) During pregnancy/parental leave a Nurse shall continue to accumulate seniority rights in duration for all purposes and the Employer must continue to make Employer contributions to pension, life insurance, accidental death, extended health and dental plans unless the employee has advised the Employer, in writing, that they do not wish to continue to make the employee contributions to such plansother nurses.
(g) Parents The nurse shall be defined to include adoptive parents and a person in a relationship of some permanence with give the natural or adoptive mother or father Employer two (2) weeks written notice of the child and date the leave is to begin, unless exempt under the Employment Standards Act. Parental leave ends sixty-three (63) weeks after it began or sixty-one (61) weeks after it began for nurses who intends to treat also took pregnancy leave or on an earlier day if the child as ownnurse gives the Employer at least four (4) weeks written notice of that day.
(h) For the purposes of parental leave, the provisions under (a) and (d) shall also apply.
(i) A Nurse nurse who is on pregnancy leave, as provided under this Agreement, who has applied for and is in receipt of Employment Insurance pregnancy benefits pursuant to Section 18 of the Employment Insurance Act shall have be paid a supplemental employment benefit. That benefit will be equivalent to the right to a personal leave difference between eighty-four percent (84%) of absence without pay to commence immediately following a parental/pregnancy/ adoption leave of absence, provided her regular weekly earnings and the sum of all her weekly Employment Insurance benefits and any other earnings. Such payment shall commence following completion of the Employment Insurance waiting period and receipt by the Employer of the nurse’s Employment Insurance cheque stub as proof that she is in receipt of Employment Insurance pregnancy benefits and shall continue for a maximum period of fifteen (15) weeks. The nurse’s regular weekly earnings shall be calculated by using the same time period used for calculation of Employment Insurance benefit. (Currently twenty-six (26) weeks). The nurse does not have any vested right except to receive payments for the covered employment 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.
(j) A nurse who is on parental leave, as provided under this Agreement, who has applied for and is in receipt of Employment Insurance parental benefits pursuant to Section 20 of the Employment Insurance Act shall be paid a supplemental employment benefit. That benefit will be equivalent to the difference between eighty-four percent (84%) of the nurse’s regular weekly earnings and the sum of her weekly Employment Insurance benefits and any other earnings. Such payment shall commence following completion of the Employment Insurance waiting period and receipt by the Employer of the nurse’s Employment Insurance cheque stub as proof that she is in receipt of Employment Insurance parental benefits and shall continue while the nurse is in receipt of such leaves benefits for a maximum period of absence do ten (10) weeks. The nurse’s regular weekly earnings shall be calculated by using the same time period used for calculation of Employment Insurance benefit. (Currently twenty-six (26) weeks). The nurse does not exceed twelve continuous months per pregnancy/ adoptionhave any vested right except to receive payments for the covered employment 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
Pregnancy/Parental Leave. (a) An employee shall be entitled to all Pregnancy/Parental Leave will be granted in accordance with as provided by the provisions of the Employment Nova Scotia Labour Standards Act as amended from time to time.
(a) The service requirement for eligibility for pregnancy/parental leave shall be thirteen (13) weeksCode.
(b) The Nurse shall give written notification which shall include A pregnant employee must have been employed for at least one (1) year to qualify and is entitled to an unpaid leave of absence of up to seventeen (17) weeks upon giving the expected Employer four (4) weeks' notice of the date of that she will begin the leave and the date she will return to work and providing to the Employer a certificate from of a legally qualified medical practitioner at least two (2) weeks in advance of stating that the employee is pregnant and specifying the expected date of commencement of such leavedelivery. This notice will leave shall be waived in the event of pregnancy complications, premature birth or the sudden coming into care of an adopted childreferred to as Pregnancy Leave.
(c) The Nurse has Pregnancy Leave will begin not sooner than sixteen (16) weeks preceding the right to return to their former position, if it still exists, or to a comparable position, if it does notexpected date of delivery and not later than the date of delivery and will end not sooner than one (1) week after the date of delivery and not later than seventeen (17) weeks after the Pregnancy Leave began.
(d) The Nurse Employer may require a pregnant employee who qualifies for Pregnancy Leave to take an unpaid leave of absence while the duties of her position cannot reasonably be performed by a pregnant woman or the performance of the employee's work is materially affected.
(e) The Employer shall, upon request from an employee and receipt of a certificate from the Administrator of Family and Children's Services stating that the employee has filed a notice of proposed adoption, grant the employee, in addition to Parental Leave, a leave of absence of up to five (5) days with pay commencing during the week of the placement of the child or children in the care of the employee for the purposes of adoption of the child or children. Such paid leave of absence shall be granted seventeen charged against and only used to the extent of available accrued sick leave credits.
(17f) An employee, employed for more than one (1) year, who becomes a parent of one or more children through the birth of the child or children, or the placement of the child or children in the care of the employee for the purpose of adoption of the child or children, is entitled to an unpaid leave of absence of up to fifty-two (52) weeks pregnancy upon giving the Employer four (4) weeks' notice of the date that the employee will begin the leave and up the date that the employee will return to sixtywork. This leave shall be referred to as Parental Leave.
(g) Where an employee takes Pregnancy Leave and the employee's newborn child or children arrive in the employee's home during the Pregnancy Leave, Parental Leave begins immediately upon completion of the Pregnancy Leave and without the employee returning to work and ends not later than thirty-one five (6135) weeks of parental leave. Natural mothersafter the Parental Leave began as determined by the employee.
(h) Where Pregnancy Leave does not apply, if they take parental leave, must take it at Parental Leave will begin on the end date coinciding with or after the birth of the pregnancy leavechild or children, or such time as the child comes into their careor children first arriving in the employee's home, but and ends not more later than fifty-fifty- two (52) weeks after the child is born or comes into care.
I.) waiting periodchildren first arrive in the employee's home as determined by the employee.
(ei) The maximum combined Pregnancy Leave and Parental Leave to which an employee is entitled is fifty-two (52) weeks.
(j) Where an employee has begun Parental Leave and the child to whom the Parental Leave relates is hospitalized for a period exceeding or likely to exceed one (1) week, the employee is entitled to return to and resume work and defer the unused portion of the Parental Leave until the child is discharged from the hospital, upon giving the Employer the required notice. The employee is entitled to only one interruption and deferral of each Parental Leave.
(k) The required notice for Pregnancy/Parental Leave shall be four (4) weeks prior to the date for taking leave or resuming work, and any subsequent changes in these dates as initially determined by the employee. Short notice shall be as much notice as reasonably practicable of the date the employee will begin Pregnancy Leave where she is advised by a legally qualified medical practitioner to begin Pregnancy Leave sooner than planned because of medical circumstances resulting from her pregnancy, or of the delivery where the actual delivery occurs sooner than expected, or of the arrival of the child or children in the employee's home where that arrival is not anticipated or occurs sooner than reasonably expected, or of the return to work or resumption of Parental Leave as provided in 19.03(j).
(l) When an employee reports for work upon expiration of the leave period, she/he shall return to the position she/he held prior to the commencement of the leave.
(m) A Nurse leave of absence for pregnancy shall be considered continuous service with the Employer and seniority shall be accumulated during such leave.
(n) Pregnancy/Parental Leave shall only be considered as time worked for purposes of accruing sick leave credits and vacation credits if such employee returns to work for not less than sixty (60) days following completion of such Pregnancy/Parental Leave. Entitlement to claim Article 20 benefits shall continue during such leave. An employee on Pregnancy/Parental Leave shall not be entitled to claim sick leave credits or long-term disability benefits during such leave.
(o) Employees while on Pregnancy/Parental Leave shall be permitted to commence their pregnancy leave at any time up to seventeen (17) weeks before the expected date of delivery.
(f) During pregnancy/parental leave continue coverage on all Group Health and Medical Plans on a Nurse shall continue to accumulate seniority rights for all purposes and the Employer must continue to make Employer contributions to pension, life insurance, accidental death, extended health and dental plans unless the employee has advised 50/50 cost- share basis with the Employer, in writing, that they do not wish to continue to make the employee contributions to such plans.
(g) Parents shall be defined to include adoptive parents and a person in a relationship of some permanence with the natural or adoptive mother or father of the child and who intends to treat the child as own.
(h) A Nurse shall have the right to a personal leave of absence without pay to commence immediately following a parental/pregnancy/ adoption leave of absence, provided the sum of all such leaves of absence do not exceed twelve continuous months per pregnancy/ adoption.
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