Statutory Pregnancy and Parental Leaves. Statutory pregnancy and statutory parental leaves shall be granted in accordance with the Employment Standards Act (Appendix B1). Statutory parental leave includes leave for the purposes of adoption. Such leaves shall be without pay except as provided in clause 22.09.
Statutory Pregnancy and Parental Leaves. (i) Statutory pregnancy and statutory parental leaves shall be granted in accordance with the Employment Standards Act (Appendix F). Statutory parental leave includes leave for the purposes of adoption. Such leaves shall be without pay except as provided in clause 16.02(a)(ii).
(ii) Notwithstanding 16.02
(a) (i), a special services staff member taking a pregnancy leave under this article who is subject to a waiting period of at least two weeks before receiving Employment Insurance benefits, shall receive an allowance upon appropriate verification to the Board. This allowance shall be the same amount as the special services staff member receives in benefits from the Employment Insurance for a two week period.
(iii) A special services staff member who has completed less than one year under probation at the time of commencement of statutory pregnancy/parental leave shall have the probationary period as set out in 11.02 extended by the amount of time which will add up to a total of one year under probation, exclusive of the time spent on pregnancy/parental leave.
(b) Upon request of the special services staff member the Board shall grant a pregnancy/parental leave for remainder of school year in which the pregnancy leave commences and the next school year.
(c) A special services staff member shall apply for pregnancy/parental leave through the special services staff member’s immediate administrative and professional supervisors on the Pregnancy/Parental Leave Request Form available in the Human Resources Department. A letter from a physician, in the case of pregnancy leave, indicating the approximate date of confinement, must accompany the Request Form. The special services staff member should make application on the Request Form at least four months prior to the commencement of leave in order that a suitable replacement be found.
(d) A special services staff member shall continue to participate in those benefit plans (other than the sick leave credit plan but including the life insurance plan, extended health plan and dental plan) which the member already enjoys unless the member elects not to do so. The special services staff member is responsible for his/her share of the cost of benefits. The board shall continue to pay its share of benefits during such statutory leave, but not during any extensions of such leaves. The special services staff member shall assume the total cost of these benefit plans for any period of leave that exceeds the statutory leave, i...
