Finance committee  I can only give a partial answer, because this decision was made under a previous government. What is clear is that there was already a model in Quebec, with Quebec's legislation providing, under its act respecting labour standards, for leave in cases of murdered and missing chil

Finance committee  To clarify, the BIA does not institute new leaves—the 104 weeks and 52 weeks. These were put in place in 2012. What the BIA does is eliminate the length-of-service requirements, in order for an employee to qualify for these leaves. The code currently states that employees need si

Finance committee  Do you mean in terms of paid leave?

Finance committee  For the other leaves, including some that are being added as part of this bill, we're looking at bereavement leave, which is the one mentioned here, leave for victims of family violence and the new personal leave. Those would be three examples.

Finance committee  The last one was personal leave.

Finance committee  If you look at paid leaves, these are the examples under the code that would still have a minimum length-of-service requirement.

Finance committee  I'll deal with that. Thank you, again. This is to talk about subdivision B of division 15, and clauses 535 to 625. The purpose of these amendments is to adjust part II, “Occupational Health and Safety”; part III, labour standards; and the new part IV, administrative monetary pe

Finance committee  I can perhaps add that there is a provision with respect to the 96 hours, but also with respect to some of the other elements, in terms of breaks and all that, to provide exceptions in the case of unforeseen circumstances that could have a health and safety impact, an impact on t

Finance committee  The legislation is fairly broad in terms of the wording. Part of the reason, of course, is that if it were overly prescriptive, it can become very difficult to administer afterwards. The objective at the end of the day is to give enough flexibility, but to make sure there are