Showing posts with label Personal Emergency. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Personal Emergency. Show all posts

Wednesday 1 August 2018

The Right to Purreavement Leave in Ontario

Should employees be allowed to use their Personal Emergency Leave (Employment Standards Act, 2000, section 50) to be absent from work in order to mourn the loss of a family pet? That is to say, should workers in Ontario be entitled to take so called “purreavement leave”?

For some the question will be ridiculous. To others, the answer “no” would be equally outrageous.

The question is not completely hypothetical either. According to a CBC news’ report, Quebec labour tribunal sides with employer in cat-bereavement spat, “A Quebec labour tribunal has sided with an employer who refused a woman's request to work from home on the day her cat died.”

That story got me thinking: Can workers in Ontario use their Personal Emergency Leave to mourn the loss of a family pet? If not, should they?

Tuesday 29 August 2017

Entitlement to Bereavement Leave in Ontario

How much paid bereavement leave is an employee entitled to in Ontario? And what constitutes “evidence reasonable in the circumstances” to demonstrate entitlement to statutory bereavement leave?

If you are reading this post, you are likely reading this at an unfortunate time in your life or that of someone close to you.