The time periods set out in the two Acts do not coincide. A separate application must be made to Employment and Immigration for parental leave and either the natural mother or father or adoptive mother or father can collect two weeks of benefits or they can share the benefit between them. . A maximum of ten weeks of benefit is paid by EI. . This maximum may be extended to fifteen weeks when the child is more than six months old and suffers from a physical, psychological, or emotional condition that requires longer parental care. . Benefits may be received by one parent or split between the two if both parents are eligible. .
Benefits are payable any time during the year after the child returns home. .
Benefits are sixty percent of the average of the last twenty weeks of your weekly insurable earnings. There is a maximum of these benefits. Contact EI to find out what you are entitled to. . Employees may discontinue their long-term disability coverage, but if they do so and disability occurs, no benefits are payable. No deductions will be made.