Maternity or Adoption Leave. i) An employee who has been in the employment of the City for a period of at least twenty (20) weeks in the fifty-two (52) weeks immediately preceding the day on which the requested leave is to commence, and who provides Transit Management with a medical certificate from a qualified medical practitioner certifying that she is pregnant and specifying the estimated date of birth, or submit proof of the adoption of a child, shall be entitled, upon written application, to maternity or adoption leave without pay. The request for maternity or adoption leave, indicating the date on which she wishes to commence the leave, together with the required medical certificate, must be submitted not later than four (4) weeks prior to the date on which she wishes to commence leave. The maximum leave to be granted is eighteen (18) weeks and may be apportioned in any combination prior to and after the date of confinement. Where the actual date of the birth is later than the estimated date of the birth, the employee is entitled to not less than six (6) weeks leave after the actual date of birth.
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