SOMMAIRE

This enactment amends the Canada Labour Code to extend, by five unpaid days, the period of bereavement leave to which an employee is entitled and to expand eligibility for the leave to include employees who, at the time a family member dies, are on compassionate care leave or leave related to critical illness in respect of the deceased person.

Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows:

L.‍R.‍, ch. L-2

Code canadien du travail

1 Le paragraphe 210(1) du Code canadien du travail est remplacé par ce qui suit :

Employee entitled

210 (1) Every employee is entitled to and shall be granted, in the event of the death of a member of their immediate family or a family member in respect of whom the employee is, at the time of the death, on leave under section 206.‍3 or 206.‍4, a leave of absence from employment of up to 10 days that may be taken during the period that begins on the day on which the death occurs and ends six weeks after the latest of the days on which any funeral, burial or memorial service of the deceased person occurs.

Entrée en vigueur

Trois mois après la sanction

2 La présente loi entre en vigueur le jour qui, dans le troisième mois suivant le mois de sa sanction, porte le même quantième que le jour de sa sanction ou, à défaut de quantième identique, le dernier jour de ce troisième mois.