Since March, some new and soon-to-be mothers couldn’t work because of public health restrictions. Many were among the first wave of layoffs in March when the coronavirus pandemic hit
This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy.Alexis Adams is joyful about the arrival of her third daughter but she is also concerned about how to pay for another maternity leave that is, like her daughter, barely a week old.
The minister in charge of the file vowed anew in recent days that a fix was coming to help those women qualify, but told MPs that there isn’t a simple solution. Her start date, though, got pushed back to May. Then June. Her plan was toast. She will have to rely on what she’ll receive from EI as a self-employed worker, which would be less than had she hit the 600-hour mark.She and other mothers in Squamish, B.C., including Adams, wrote their local MP, Liberal Patrick Weiler, who promised the government was trying to figure out a solution. They have continued to write, but haven’t heard anything new.
“This is not a future problem that needs to be looked at and analyzed. This is a problem right now for those parents,” Albas said in an interview.“It’s challenging enough to have a child during a pandemic. With no understanding of what your maternity leave benefits will be? That is devastating.”
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