Family Responsibility Leave

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Family Responsibility Leave

• Employees employed for longer than four months and for at least four days a week are entitled to take three days paid family responsibility leave during each leave cycle. 

• This can happen under certain circumstances:

     When the employee’s child is born

     When the employee’s child is sick

     In the event of the death of the employee’s spouse or life partner or parent, adoptive parent, grandparent, child, adopted child, grandchild or sibling. 

• Employers may require reasonable proof of the birth, illness or death for which a worker requests leave. 

• 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 or 24 hours a month.

• Family responsibility leave expires at the end of the annual cycle.

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