Mat Leave Top Up

If your employer offers a top up find out.

Mat leave top up. Some employers may offer you an income top up when you re on parental leave. Parental leave for adoption. At the discretion of your employer you may take this leave in 2 periods. 15 weeks for women outside quebec and 18 weeks for women in quebec as of january 1 2006.

The six week period can be extended if medically indicated by a doctor s note. Combined ei benefits of up to 50 weeks are available for parents. Workplace policies outline the provisions for top up programs. You are entitled to a top up of up to 100 per cent of your pre leave salary.

In addition a provincially legal adoption process must be underway before you request this leave. Also i m high risk. I shouldn t have a problem reaching 600 hours but i owe my work 6 months of service or else i have to pay back my top up won t qualify for top up for next leave. De grâce says she has seen top up plans that don t reference a specific period of time.

Maternity and parental ei leave now up to 50 weeks. How long the top up will last. How much you ll get. You are entitled to a top up of up to 100 per cent of your pre leave salary.

The top up amounts are not considered as earnings and are not deducted from the employees ei benefits when certain requirements are met. Both periods were significantly longer than for women without paid leave benefits who returned after an average of 34 weeks the report said. In unionized environments collective agreements set out the rules. This top up pays a portion of your regular salary and supplements your ei or quebec parental insurance plan benefits.

The sub plan lets employees with less sick leave in their bank top up ei benefits to 66 6 per cent of average weekly earnings. This section is applicable to employers who provide top ups to maternity parental including adoption compassionate care or family caregiver benefits. Those without a top up were on leave for 46 weeks. However a top up contract is an agreement to pay some of an employee s salary or to top up their income while they are on pregnancy or parental leave by paying the difference between what employment insurance pays and the employee s salary.

The top up payment period averaged between 16 and 19 weeks 3 or about four months suggesting that most women receive a top up to their paid maternity leave only.