HUMA Committee Report

Clause 4

Clause 4 is deleted.

Clause 5

Clause 5 is deleted.

New Clause 6

That Bill C-222 be amended by adding after line 31 on page 2 the following:

“Amendment to the Act

6 (1) Subsection 210(1.01) of the Canada Labour Code is replaced by the following:

(1.01) Subject to subsection (1.011), every employee is entitled to and shall be granted, in the event of the death of a child of the employee or the death of a child of their spouse or common-law partner, a leave of absence from employment of up to 10 weeks that may be taken during the period that begins on the day on which the death occurs and ends 12 weeks after the latest of the days on which any funeral, burial or memorial service of the child occurs.

(1.011) Every employee is entitled to and shall be granted, in the event of the death of a child of the employee that occurs while the employee is on, or is entitled to be on, leave under section 206 in respect of that child, a leave of absence from employment of up to 10 weeks that may be taken during the period that begins on the day on which the death occurs and ends on the later of

(a) 12 weeks after the latest of the days on which any funeral, burial or memorial service of the child occurs; and

(b) 12 weeks after the end of the leave under section 206.

(2) The portion of subsection 210(1.02) of the Act before paragraph (a) is replaced by the following:

(1.02) In subsections (1.01) and (1.011), “child” means”

New Clause 7

That Bill C-222 be amended by adding after line 31 on page 2 the following:

“Transitional Provision

7 (1) Section 210 of the Canada Labour Code, as amended by section 6, applies to an employee if, on the day on which section 6 comes into force,

(a) the period during which the employee is entitled to take leave under subsection 210(1.01) of that Act, as it read immediately before section 6 comes into force, has not ended; or

(b) the employee is on, or entitled to be on, leave under section 206 of that Act.

(2) For the purposes of subsection (1), an employee who has taken two periods of leave under subsection 210(1.2) of the Canada Labour Code before the day on which section 6 comes into force may, despite that subsection, take one additional period of leave.”

New Clause 8

That Bill C-222 be amended by adding after line 31 on page 2 the following:

“Coming into Force

8 This Act, other than section 3.3, comes into force on the first Sunday after the day that is six months after the day on which this Act receives royal assent or on an earlier day to be fixed by order of the Governor in Council.”