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From an NS Liberal Party release:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n HALIFAX: <\/strong>With all-party support in the legislature last week, a Liberal resolution was passed that commits the \u201cOur opposition strategy resulted in a commitment from the government to study expanding job- protected leave for Nova Scotians facing serious illness, like cancer, from three days to up to 26 weeks,\u201d said Opposition Leader Zach Churchill. \u201cThe last thing someone going through a serious illness such as cancer needs to worry about is if they have a job to return to. <\/p>\n\n\n\n “This change will impact thousands of Nova Scotians and their families.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”31″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”148″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Last fall, the federal government expanded the Employment Insurance (EI) sickness benefit to 26 weeks, ensuring that no Canadian would face loss of income due to injury or illness. <\/p>\n\n\n\n A bill tabled by Deputy Leader Kelly Regan in April 2023 would expand unpaid job protection from three days to 26 weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It would create provisions to allow Nova Scotians to return to work based on their unique treatment and recovery journey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate group=”7″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”34″]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [adrotate banner=”105″] [adrotate banner=”169″] From an NS Liberal Party release: HALIFAX: With all-party support in the legislature last week, a Liberal resolution was passed that commits theHouston government to consult and study expanded job-protected leave for Nova Scotians facing serious illness by the next legislative session. \u201cOur opposition strategy resulted in a commitment from the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38163,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[957],"tags":[196,50,5712,48],"class_list":["post-40319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-east-hants","tag-halifax","tag-job-protection","tag-n-s"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Houston government to consult and study expanded job-protected leave for Nova Scotians facing serious illness by the next legislative session.<\/p>\n\n\n\n