Setting up parental leave to take down the motherhood penalty

One of my LinkedIn posts on applying a feminist lens to parental leave policies.

In honour of Women's History Month, I'm doing a daily series of posts on LinkedIn that applies a feminist lens to employment law tips for employers. Each week, I'm picking a different theme, and this past week was about parental leave policies.

The topics covered included:

1. the legal risks of applying a blanket EI parental leave benefits top-up scheme to all employees;

2. the benefits of creating a self-funded paternity leave;

3. the legal risks of requiring co-parent employees to share EI top-up benefits; and

4. the legal obligation to keep in touch with employees who are off on pregnancy or parental leave.

Click here to be taken to the beginning of this week's series.

Rika Sawatsky

Principal Lawyer

(related services: parental leave policy and administration)