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ENGLISHSUMMARYSUMMARY1 Canada Labour Code1 Canada Labour Code2 Coming into Force2 Coming into Force
Second Session, Forty-third Parliament,
69-70 Elizabeth II, 2020-2021
STATUTES OF CANADA 2021
CHAPTER 17
An Act to amend the Canada Labour Code (bereavement leave)
ASSENTED TO
June 29, 2021
BILL C-220
SUMMARY
This enactment amends the Canada Labour Code to extend, by five unpaid days, the period of bereavement leave to which an employee is entitled and to expand eligibility for the leave to include employees who, at the time a family member dies, are on compassionate care leave or leave related to critical illness in respect of the deceased person.
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69-70 Elizabeth II
CHAPTER 17
An Act to amend the Canada Labour Code (bereavement leave)
[Assented to 29th June, 2021]
Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows:
R.‍S.‍, c. L-2
Canada Labour Code
1 Subsection 210(1) of the Canada Labour Code is replaced by the following:
Employee entitled
210 (1) Every employee is entitled to and shall be granted, in the event of the death of a member of
their immediate family or a family member in respect of whom the employee is, at the time of the
death, on leave under section 206.‍3 or 206.‍4, a leave of absence from employment of up to 10 days
that may be taken during the period that begins on the day on which the death occurs and ends six
weeks after the latest of the days on which any funeral, burial or memorial service of the deceased
person occurs.
Coming into Force
Three months after royal assent
2 This Act comes into force on the day that, in the third month after the month in which it receives
royal assent, has the same calendar number as the day on which it receives royal assent or, if that third
month has no day with that number, the last day of that third month.
Published under authority of the Speaker of the House of Commons
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