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Bill C-294

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C-294
First Session, Forty-first Parliament,
60 Elizabeth II, 2011
HOUSE OF COMMONS OF CANADA
BILL C-294
An Act to amend the Canada Labour Code (illness or injury)

first reading, September 28, 2011

NOTE

2nd Session, 41st Parliament

This bill was introduced during the First Session of the 41st Parliament. Pursuant to the Standing Orders of the House of Commons, it is deemed to have been considered and approved at all stages completed at the time of prorogation of the First Session. The number of the bill remains unchanged.
Mr. Rafferty

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SUMMARY
This enactment amends the Canada Labour Code to extend from twelve weeks to fifty-two weeks the period during which an employee may be absent from work due to illness or injury without being dismissed, suspended, laid off, demoted or disciplined by an employer.

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1st Session, 41st Parliament,
60 Elizabeth II, 2011
house of commons of canada
BILL C-294
An Act to amend the Canada Labour Code (illness or injury)
R.S., c. L-2
Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows:
1. Paragraph 239(1)(b) of the Canada Labour Code is replaced by the following:
(b) the period of absence does not exceed fifty-two weeks; and
Published under authority of the Speaker of the House of Commons



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