Bill 30 explained in plain English
Family Caregiver Leave Act (Employment Standards Amendment), 2012
Ontario legislature bill summary, status, timeline, sponsor, votes, and official sources.
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The Family Caregiver Leave Act (Employment Standards Amendment), 2012, creates a new unpaid leave of up to eight weeks per year for Ontario employees to care for family members with serious medical conditions.
Bill 30, also known as the Family Caregiver Leave Act (Employment Standards Amendment), 2012, introduces a new type of unpaid leave for employees in Ontario. This leave, called family caregiver leave, allows employees to take time off work to care for a family member with a serious medical condition. The bill amends the Employment Standards Act, 2000, to include this new leave and outlines who qualifies as a family member, the duration of the leave, and the process for employees to inform their employers.
- Introduces family caregiver leave, a new type of unpaid leave for employees.
- Amends the Employment Standards Act, 2000, to establish the conditions and entitlements for family caregiver leave.
- Specifies that employees can take up to eight weeks of leave per calendar year for each family member needing care.
- Defines who qualifies as a family member for the purpose of this leave, including spouses, parents, children, grandparents, siblings, and certain other relatives or prescribed individuals.
- Requires employees to provide a medical certificate from a qualified health practitioner confirming the family member's serious medical condition.
- States that employees must take this leave in full-week periods.
- Requires employees to notify their employer in writing about their intention to take leave, providing the notice as soon as possible if they must start the leave before informing the employer.
- Allows the Lieutenant Governor in Council to make regulations for transitional matters related to the implementation of family caregiver leave, with these regulations taking precedence in case of conflict with the act.
- Ensures that entitlement to family caregiver leave is in addition to other types of leave, such as family medical leave and personal emergency leave.
- Specifies that the bill comes into force on July 1, 2012.
- Employees in Ontario
- Employers in Ontario
- Family members of employees who have serious medical conditions
- Employees have the right to take unpaid family caregiver leave.
- Employees have the right to take up to eight weeks of leave per calendar year for each qualifying family member.
- Employees have the right to take leave in full-week periods.
- Employees have the obligation to inform their employer in writing about taking leave.
- Employees have the obligation to provide a medical certificate upon request.
- Employers must allow employees to take family caregiver leave.
- The Lieutenant Governor in Council has the power to make transitional regulations.
- The bill comes into force on July 1, 2012.
- Family caregiver leave is unpaid, meaning employees will not receive wages during this period.
- The specific conditions or documentation required from a 'qualified health practitioner' beyond a medical certificate are not fully detailed in the bill text and may be subject to further regulation.
- The exact definition of 'family member' could be expanded by prescribed regulations.
- The bill allows for regulations to define "prescribed circumstances" for qualified health practitioners and "prescribed individuals" as family members, meaning these details are not exhaustively listed in the bill itself.
- While the bill specifies leave is without pay, it does not detail how benefits, seniority, or job protection are handled during the leave, which may be addressed in regulations or the Employment Standards Act, 2000 itself.
The bill amends the Employment Standards Act, 2000, by adding a new section (49.3) to create family caregiver leave and by making related changes to other sections.
Source: Bill 30
This subsection is amended to include "family caregiver leave" alongside other types of leave mentioned.
Source: Section 1 of Bill 30
This subsection is repealed and replaced to clarify that entitlement to family medical leave is in addition to family caregiver leave and personal emergency leave.
Source: Section 2 of Bill 30
A new section (49.3) establishing family caregiver leave is added to Part XIV.
Source: Section 3 of Bill 30
This new section defines family caregiver leave, including who is eligible, the duration, and the process for taking the leave.
Source: Section 3 of Bill 30
This section is amended by adding subsections that grant the Lieutenant Governor in Council the power to make transitional regulations for family caregiver leave.
Source: Section 4 of Bill 30
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