paternity leave

Up All Night: The Birth (Yikes!)

October 20, 2011




I found the past couple of weeks of Up All Night to not be good enough or bad enough to write about. There were some funny parts and some parts that made me roll my eyes, but nothing that drove me to my keyboard. But this week’s topic was birth and I have had a [...]

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Parents of twins can now both take parental leave

September 18, 2009




I love it when I get to share some good news as an update to an issue I posted on in the past. Back in November, I wrote about a couple who were having twins where both mom and dad wanted to take parental leave. In double the babies, double the work, double the leave, [...]

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Flexible maternity and parental leave: Is it too much to ask?

August 8, 2009




You know the spoiled little rich girl complaining that her Daddy won’t buy her a Porsche and she has to make due with a BMW? If you’re American, you’ll probably think I sound like that spoiled little rich girl after reading this post. I’m sorry. I’m Canadian. I have access to almost a year of [...]

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Double the babies, double the work, double the leave?

November 19, 2008




In Canada, parents can take up to one year of leave after a baby is born. That includes 17.5 weeks of maternity leave for the birth mother (and 5 weeks of paternity leave for the father in Quebec), as well as an additional 32 weeks of parental leave that can be taken by the mother, [...]

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