Maternity/parental benefits were temporarily amended to reduce the number of insurable hours (needed to qualify for the benefits) to 120 for the parents who would otherwise not meet the 600-hour threshold
Country
CanadaPolicy Area
Parental leaveMeasure
Paid parental leaveEligibility
Working parentsType
N/AStart / Announced Date
20/08/2020 (Retroactively from 15/03/2020)End Date
N/AAmount
A one-time credit of 480 insurable hoursTotal Cost
N/ARecipients
ParentsRoute to the child
IndirectSources
Doucet, A., Lero, D.S., McKay, L. and Tremblay, D.-G. (2020) ‘Canada country note,’ in Koslowski, A., Blum, S., Dobrotić, I., Kaufman, G. and Moss, P. (eds.) International Review of Leave Policies and Research 2020. Available at: http://www.leavenetwork.org/lp_and_r_reports/Access the full dataset here
