Parental Leave - Adoption. An employee shall receive Parental Leave of up to thirty-seven (37) weeks without pay, subject to the following conditions:
Parental Leave - Adoption. .1 An employee who has completed six (6) consecutive months of employment with the Company shall be granted up to thirty-seven (37) weeks Adoption Leave under one of two Plans:
Parental Leave - Adoption. An employee who becomes a parent of a child through the placement of the child in the care of the employee for the purpose of adoption of the child is entitled to an unpaid leave of absence of up to thirty-five (35) weeks. This leave shall begin on a date coinciding with the arrival of the child in the employee=s home and shall end not later than thirty-five (35) weeks after the leave began, as determined by the employee.
Parental Leave - Adoption. Employees can use leave intermittently for a serious health condition of an adopted child. FMLA leave may also include time to travel to another country to complete an adoption or other necessary steps to complete the adoption.
Parental Leave - Adoption. 11.07.1 An employee who has completed six (6) consecutive months of employment with the Company shall be granted up to thirty-seven (37) weeks Adoption Leave under one of two Plans: 1. Plan A – Adoption Leave without pay, or 2. Plan B – Supplemental Adoption plan. The following terms and conditions shall apply to both Plans: (a) The employee has commenced legal proceedings under the law of a Province, to adopt a child or obtains an order under the laws of a Province for the adoption of a child. (b) The employee must submit to the Company an application in writing for leave at least four (4) weeks (if possible) before the day specified in the application as the day on which the employee intends to commence the Leave. (c) Adoption Leave of up to thirty-seven (37) weeks shall be taken in the fifty-two (52) week period, beginning on the day on which the child comes into the employee’s care. (d) Pursuant to Section 206.1(3) of The Canada Labour Code, the aggregate amount of Leave of Absence from employment that may be taken by two (2) employees in respect to the adoption of any one (1) child shall not exceed thirty-seven (37) weeks. (e) An employee who wishes to resume employment on the expiration of the Adoption Leave shall be reinstated in the position they occupied at the time such Leave commenced or in a comparable position, with not less than the same wages and benefits. (f) For an employee granted Adoption Leave, employment after termination of the Leave shall be deemed continuous with employment before the commencement of the Leave. (g) An employee who remains absent from work for a period in excess of up to thirty-seven (37) weeks shall forfeit the right to be reinstated. The Company may consider an extension of time based on the merits of each individual case. The request shall be submitted in writing, prior to the expiration of the up to thirty-seven (37) week period.
Parental Leave - Adoption i) An Employee who becomes a parent of a child is eligible to take parental leave in accordance with the provisions of the Employment Standards Act, except where amended in this provision.
