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Changes urged for new bill granting unpaid leave for pregnancy loss

Changes urged for new bill granting unpaid leave for pregnancy loss

CBC
Saturday, April 30, 2022 2:59 PM GMT

A Calgary organization that supports people affected by pregnancy loss has met with the Alberta government to request changes to a new bill that allows grieving parents three unpaid days away from work.

Bill 17, Labour Statutes Amendment Act, 2022, amends the section of the employment standards code that grants job-protected leave to employees dealing with the death of a family member. 

If passed, employers must grant bereavement leave to an employee and their spouse or common-law partner if they experienced a miscarriage or stillbirth. The provision also applies to people who were expecting to become parents as a result of surrogacy. 

Aditi Loveridge, founder and CEO of the Pregnancy & Infant Loss Support Centre, wants the bill's wording tweaked to use the broader term of "pregnancy loss." 

"Because if you're saying miscarriage, stillbirth, abortion and termination for medical reasons, those all absolutely deserve to be in the bill and it's leaving out all of the other many forms of loss," Loveridge said. 

"If I was to go to my employer and say I have cancer, that employer does not get the right to ask me what type of cancer I have. And I think that this bill needs to be treated with the same kind of respect."

She also wants surrogates and adoptive parents included among those qualifying for bereavement leave.

Loveridge spoke at the news conference about the bill on April 21. Since the event occurred prior to the tabling of the Bill 17 in the legislature, she wasn't able to read the actual wording until later.

She met with staff from Labour and Immigration Minister Kaycee Madu's office to make suggestions on how the bill could be tweaked. 

The NDP Opposition plans to propose amendments when Bill 17 is debated by committee of the whole. 

Madu said the bill doesn't preclude someone who had an abortion from receiving bereavement leave, but NDP MLA Janis Irwin, critic for women and LGBTQ2S+ issues, wants to propose amendments to make that more specific. 

"As it currently stands, the bill talks about miscarriage and stillbirth," she said. "And so we want that definition of pregnancy loss to be expanded to include termination for medical reasons (TFMR) as well as abortion."

In an email to CBC News, Madu's press secretary Roy Dallmann said any suggested amendments will be considered.

Bill 17 also raises the issue about how unpaid leave can be a barrier to those who need it. 

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