{"id":17695,"date":"2019-12-03T15:30:27","date_gmt":"2019-12-03T20:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/saskatchewan-adding-extra-weeks-of-parental-leave-139706"},"modified":"2019-12-03T15:30:27","modified_gmt":"2019-12-03T20:30:27","slug":"saskatchewan-adding-extra-weeks-of-parental-leave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2019\/12\/03\/saskatchewan-adding-extra-weeks-of-parental-leave\/","title":{"rendered":"Saskatchewan adding extra weeks of parental leave"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"alignleft clearfix\">\n<div class=\"wp-caption feature-image alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"316\" height=\"190\" src=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Parent-Baby-Newborn-123RF.png\" class=\"attachment-feature size-feature wp-post-image\" alt title=\"Saskatchewan adding extra weeks of parental leave\"> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"byline\"><span>Staff<\/span>&nbsp;|&nbsp;December 3, 2019<\/p>\n<p>The Saskatchewan government is amending&nbsp;its provincial employment act to add eight additional weeks of parental leave.<\/p>\n<p>The additional weeks of leave will be available to employees entitled to the province\u2019s new shared parental employment insurance benefit.<\/p>\n<p>In a press release, the government said the extra weeks will give employees job protection while they access the parental leave benefit.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/room-for-improvement-in-oecd-eu-family-friendly-policies-says-unicef-132566\">\u2018Room for improvement\u2019 in OECD, EU family-friendly policies, says Unicef<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The amendments will also expand the candidate public office leave to include employees running for election to an Indigenous band council, allow strikes and lockouts to occur when an application is pending before the provincial Labour Relations Board and re-establish the court\u2019s ability to reinstate employees who were discriminated against by their employers, among other changes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe changes we are making will ensure employees can enjoy bringing a child into their family or run for band council knowing their jobs are protected,\u201d said Don Morgan, the province\u2019s labour relations and workplace safety minister.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/saskatchewan-adding-extra-weeks-of-parental-leave-139706\">Read the full article at BenefitsCanada.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff&nbsp;|&nbsp;December 3, 2019 The Saskatchewan government is amending&nbsp;its provincial employment act to add eight additional weeks of parental leave. The additional weeks of leave will be available to employees entitled to the province\u2019s new&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17695"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}