Parental leave: one more step for elected members of the National Assembly

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Parental leave: one more step for elected members of the National Assembly

QUEBEC — In 2022, women elected to the National Assembly of Quebec are still not entitled to parental leave, the day they become mothers. However, parliamentarians have just corrected this anomaly, by recently amending the regulations of the National Assembly, to state that a deputy will not be penalized if she is absent from Parliament for an indefinite period of time because she has just given birth to a child. An elected official who decided …