Family Responsibility Leave
Workers may take up to three days of paid leave a year to attend to certain family responsibilities. The provisions for family responsibility leave do not apply to workers who work less than:
- Four months for their employer
- Four days a week for one employer
- 24 hours a month.
Family responsibility leave expires at the end of the annual cycle. Employees may take family responsibility leave:
- when their child is born
- when their child is sick
- in the event of the death of a:
- spouse or life partner
- parent or adoptive parent
- grandparent
- child or adopted child
- grandchild
- sibling.
Employers may require reasonable proof of the birth, illness or death for which a worker requests leave.