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Hi Lior,

My wife just returned to work after a 12 month maternity leave. She works in the healthcare setting as a physiotherapist. I work as an ER physician, and have a constantly changing schedule.

In the setting of COVID our daycare has closed its doors and we find ourselves without easily available childcare. In our minds, the simplest solution would be to take her extended mat leave (full 18 months), unpayed, while this crisis plays out. Her HR department, boss, and union rep state that she cannot simply extend her mat leave without 4 weeks notice.

Question: Is this in fact the case by law? What conditions need to be satisfied to extended a mat leave from 12 to 18 months.

Thank-you for your time.

Hi Lior,

My wife just returned to work after a 12 month maternity leave. She works in the healthcare setting as a physiotherapist. I work as an ER physician, and have a constantly changing schedule.

In the setting of COVID our daycare has closed its doors and we find ourselves without easily available childcare. In our minds, the simplest solution would be to take her extended mat leave (full 18 months), unpayed, while this crisis plays out. Her HR department, boss, and union rep state that she cannot simply extend her mat leave without 4 weeks notice.

Question: Is this in fact the case by law? What conditions need to be satisfied to extended a mat leave from 12 to 18 months.

Thank-you for your time.

Hi Lior,

My wife just returned to work after a 12 month maternity leave. She works in the healthcare setting as a physiotherapist. I work as an ER physician, and have a constantly changing schedule.

In the setting of COVID our daycare has closed its doors and we find ourselves without easily available childcare. In our minds, the simplest solution would be to take her extended mat leave (full 18 months), unpayed, while this crisis plays out. Her HR department, boss, and union rep state that she cannot simply extend her mat leave without 4 weeks notice.

Question: Is this in fact the case by law? What conditions need to be satisfied to extended a mat leave from 12 to 18 months.

Thank-you for your time.

Hi Lior,

My wife just returned to work after a 12 month maternity leave. She works in the healthcare setting as a physiotherapist. I work as an ER physician, and have a constantly changing schedule.

In the setting of COVID our daycare has closed its doors and we find ourselves without easily available childcare. In our minds, the simplest solution would be to take her extended mat leave (full 18 months), unpayed, while this crisis plays out. Her HR department, boss, and union rep state that she cannot simply extend her mat leave without 4 weeks notice.

Question: Is this in fact the case by law? What conditions need to be satisfied to extended a mat leave from 12 to 18 months.

Thank-you for your time.

Hi Lior,

My wife just returned to work after a 12 month maternity leave. She works in the healthcare setting as a physiotherapist. I work as an ER physician, and have a constantly changing schedule.

In the setting of COVID our daycare has closed its doors and we find ourselves without easily available childcare. In our minds, the simplest solution would be to take her extended mat leave (full 18 months), unpayed, while this crisis plays out. Her HR department, boss, and union rep state that she cannot simply extend her mat leave without 4 weeks notice.

Question: Is this in fact the case by law? What conditions need to be satisfied to extended a mat leave from 12 to 18 months.

Thank-you for your time.