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Canada Labour Code

Version of section 206.1 from 2003-01-01 to 2012-12-13:


Marginal note:Entitlement to leave

  •  (1) Subject to subsections (2) and (3), every employee who has completed six consecutive months of continuous employment with an employer is entitled to and shall be granted a leave of absence from employment of up to thirty-seven weeks to care for a new-born child of the employee or a child who is in the care of the employee for the purpose of adoption under the laws governing adoption in the province in which the employee resides.

  • Marginal note:Period when leave may be taken

    (2) The leave of absence may only be taken during the fifty-two week period beginning

    • (a) in the case of a new-born child of the employee, at the option of the employee, on the day the child is born or comes into the actual care of the employee; and

    • (b) in the case of an adoption, on the day the child comes into the actual care of the employee.

  • Marginal note:Aggregate leave — two employees

    (3) The aggregate amount of leave that may be taken by two employees under this section in respect of the same birth or adoption shall not exceed thirty-seven weeks.

  • 1993, c. 42, s. 26
  • 2000, c. 14, s. 42
  • 2002, c. 9, s. 17

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