Canada Labour Code

Marginal note:Entitlement to leave

206 Every employee who

• (a) has completed six consecutive months of continuous employment with an employer, and

• (b) provides her employer with a certificate of a qualified medical practitioner certifying that she is pregnant

is entitled to and shall be granted a leave of absence from employment of up to seventeen weeks, which leave may begin not earlier than eleven weeks prior to the estimated date of her confinement and end not later than seventeen weeks following the actual date of her confinement.