Boat Insurance Vancouver

Barb and Maxine work for a major company earnings for the quarter was 400 million. Both women are new moms, which is currently at home with their children. Barb will be at home for 52 weeks and will receive 85% of regular salary. Maxine, on the other hand, is able to stay at home for only 35 weeks during which she receives 55% of his salary. What is the difference? Barb is a biological mother, Maxine is an adoptive mother.

Both the federal government and employers from treating women differently based on how they chose to build their families. Their employer, like many organizations, "high" payments received from Employment Insurance to ensure that employees receive full (or nearly full) wages while they are out work1. When Maxine, however, their employer does not extend the benefit to adoptive parents.

The Federal Government pays for insurance (EI) to provide financial assistance to new parents (currently 55% of average insured earnings up to $ 413 per week). Maternity benefits are payable to biological mothers for a maximum of 15 weeks. Parental benefits are payable to parents (biological or adoptive) for a maximum of 35 weeks. Thus, the biological parents are entitled to 50 weeks of employment insurance so that adoptive parents received the maximum at only 35 weeks. An adoptive parent is a challenge mounting Charter of Rights on this issue very Legislation.2 EI

Birth parents are provided with employment insurance benefits during a period of one year consists of:

a) 2 week period of exclusion (ie no payments EI) and

b) 15 weeks of maternity benefits and

c) 35 weeks of parental benefits

Total: 52 weeks

Many employers pay a supplemental salary compensation to their employees for the disqualification of two weeks of employment insurance supplementing their salaries between 85% and 100% of their wages (the employer pays the full advantage of this during the first two weeks). For the next 15 weeks, the top-up reduced by the amount of maternity insurance benefits (described above). Some employers top-up salary of employees for 35 weeks of parental benefits well3.

Following complaints we received about how the adoptive parents have been treated in the workplace, Sunrise has done a limited and informal survey of its customers to see the extent of differential treatment of adoptive and biological parents by employer is, and we have been surprised by the answers. Many of our customers have reported situations in which a biological parent receives supplement payments, while the adoptive parent is denied. Here are some examples of what we heard:

Government of British Columbia: The provincial government in British Columbia is one of the least discriminatory employers we have heard. It offers a top-up both biological and adoptive parents (in the unionized and non-unionized.) It also offers adoptive parents a "pre-placement adoption leave." This leave allows adoptive parents to attend pre-placement visits from their family or supplement the legal requirements for adoption at the collection of 85% of their regular salary.

Government of Canada: A federal official who is an adoptive parent, received 93% of his salary top-up for 37 weeks. The irony is that the federal government treats its employees better foster parent that most employers do, but discrimination against adoptive parents to his policy of EI!

Police: The RCMP (a federal government employer) offers both the adoption and biological parents of the top-up for 37 weeks. Other police forces in British Columbia (municipal forces) do not generally pay top-up for adoptive parents. (The municipal police force in Saanich, British Columbia, however, did pay top-up for 37 weeks).

Towns: A foster parent reported that the municipality, it finally worked for him given the right to top-up after thread.