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ARTICLE · 13 JUNE 2017

Update On Changes To Alberta's Employment Standards And Labour Relations Legislation

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Last week we provided you with an update on the new Bill within a couple of hours of it being tabled in the Legislature, which was based on a briefing by the Ministry without seeing the actual legislation.

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Last week we provided you with an update on the new Bill within a couple of hours of it being tabled in the Legislature, which was based on a briefing by the Ministry without seeing the actual legislation. Now that we have had a chance to review the 252-page document which represents Bill 17, as we promised we would do, we would like to update that information. The following is an update on matters which were either omitted or misunderstood from the short briefing or which we feel should be covered in more detail. This should be read as a supplement to that earlier summary and read with it.

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  • Parental leave is not immediately increased under the new Bill from 37 weeks to 52 weeks. That change is not mentioned in the legislation, but we are assured by the Ministry that it will be increasing to 52 weeks in the future. We understand that it is the intent of Alberta Labour to align with the federal government's proposed change to the

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