The right to a leave of absence under the Employment Standards Act is independent of any right to college Employment Insurance. The time periods set out in the two Acts do not coincide. 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 to these benefits. Contact Human Resources Development 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.