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• Lactation support network
• Portable professional-grade breast pump
• Information packet
• Contribution to purchase of a breast pump
• Contribution to rental of a breast pump
• Extra pump kit accessories
• Discounts on lactation supplies
6.5.5 Return to Work
EMPLOYERS ALLOW:
• Staff to phase back into their jobs (in one case can spend 8
weeks phasing back on a part-time basis)
• Re-integration to use flexi-time, compressed weeks and
telecommuting to return to work gradually after maternity
leave
• Provide a 3-week orientation for those out for more than 6
months
• Request work in a virtual office i.e. work at home full-time
with equipment provided by the company
6.5.6 Suite of Flexi-time Policies
EMPLOYERS:
• Install a new phone system that automatically forwards
office calls to any phone including employees home lines
• Allow compressed workweeks year round or for just a few
months e.g. 4 x 10 hours, 3 x 12 hours, alternate 7 day
weeks, allow workers leave early on Friday
• Allow job sharing and part-time options (one company uses
the web to assist in finding potential job share partners) -
one company allows 2 to 6 hours per day and start and
finish when you like
• Allow school hours only with no summers
• Allow 3-month sabbatical with only 5-year service i.e. fully
paid for the first month and partly paid for months 2 and 3
• Allow alternative start and finish times (start as early as 6
am and leave as early as 3 pm)
• Increase number of weekend positions
• Allow telecommuting
• Give one day per year that can be taken without notice
• Allow working a few hours at the weekend in order to be
available for after-school activities
• Allow access to intranet portal from outside the office
6.5.7 Leave
EMPLOYERS OFFER:
• 26-week maternity leave
• Mothers the opportunity to take 2 weeks paid leave
before due date and 6 weeks after
• 6 to 13 weeks paid leave
• Fathers can take 3 paid weeks anytime within the child's
first year
• New fathers and adoptive parents get 8 weeks paid leave
• 26-week unpaid family leave for paternity, adoption,
placement for a foster child
• New parents including adoptive parents, with at least 1
year service, 52 weeks of job guaranteed time off
• Shared Leave Bank which allows employees to donate days
off to one another
• Mothers encountering any post-baby complications
additional short term disability leave with pay
• Employees up to 5 days of family sick leave per year
• New mothers and fathers 12 weeks of job guaranteed leave
beyond the legislated 12
• Extended personal leave of up to 52 weeks for reasons such
as taking care of a family emergency
6.5.8 Childcare Services
EMPLOYERS PROVIDE:
• Parent employees on or near site day care facilities with
part-time, full-time and back-up programmes
• Discounts (10%) at back-up childcare centres
• $50 a day for 20 weekdays and unlimited weekend of backup
care
• 100 hours back-up care per year at $2 per child for drop-in
and $4 per child for in-home care
• Re-imburse the child care expenses of employees who work
overtime on urgent projects
• 24-hour care giver on-call service for in-home childcare at
$25 per day
• Childcare benefits to grandchildren
• 90% of the costs for up to 10 days in-home or centre-based
back-up services
• Before and after school and holiday and summer
programmes
• Subsidies of up to 45% at two on-site childcare centres
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