{"id":218,"date":"2009-12-08T15:31:51","date_gmt":"2009-12-08T23:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/?p=218"},"modified":"2010-02-11T14:45:53","modified_gmt":"2010-02-11T22:45:53","slug":"maternity-leave-and-reasonable-notice-for-employment-termination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/?p=218","title":{"rendered":"Maternity Leave and Reasonable Notice for Employment Termination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In case it wasn&#8217;t obvious, reasonable notice periods are suspended by maternity leave. Don&#8217;t terminate your pregnant employees or employees that are on maternity leave. See the following cases:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.courts.gov.bc.ca\/jdb-txt\/sc\/98\/05\/s98-0557.txt\">Whelehan v. Laidlaw Environmental Services Ltd.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.courts.gov.bc.ca\/jdb-txt\/sc\/02\/14\/2002bcsc1418.htm\">Winterburn v. Domtar Inc.<\/a>,  2002 BCSC 1418<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.courts.gov.bc.ca\/jdb-txt\/sc\/03\/17\/2003bcsc1731.htm\"> Wells v. Patina Salons Ltd.<\/a>,  2003 BCSC 1731   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case it wasn&#8217;t obvious, reasonable notice periods are suspended by maternity leave. Don&#8217;t terminate your pregnant employees or employees that are on maternity leave. See the following cases: Whelehan v. Laidlaw Environmental Services Ltd. Winterburn v. Domtar Inc., 2002 BCSC 1418 Wells v. Patina Salons Ltd., 2003 BCSC 1731<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment-law","category-human-rights-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}