05.03.12 – Leave without pay / Part time reduction

 

Persons are deemed as earning work income that will otherwise be granted when they apply for:

 

  • a leave without pay and can reintegrate their employment under the work conditions binding them to their employers but that they don’t reintegrate their employment without serious cause;

     

  • reduction measures of work time and may reintegrate their regular work schedule but do not reintegrate this schedule without serious cause.

 

Persons may be assisted with a salary supplement that they would have received. Where there are no deficit, their application is refused or their file cancelled.

 

Is deemed as a serious cause, the fact of having been obliged to take a leave without pay or to reduce their work time, namely in one of the following situations:

 

  • due to the health condition of this adult or one of the family members;

     

  • when they apply for benefits granted under the Act respecting parental insurance or sections 22 or 23 of the Employment Insurance Act (motherhood or parenthood);

     

  • to escort a partner or a dependent child to another place of residence.