Organizations have adjusted quite well here in Canada. For people entering the labour market or moving up the responsibility ladder a maternity leave contract

Organizations have adjusted quite well here in Canada. For people entering the labour market or moving up the responsibility ladder a maternity leave contract has become an extremly common way for people to get their foot in the door while offering companies a simple exit at the end of the contract if the fit isn't right. Hiring new employees can be risky for companies here since terminating employment is often not simple, but parental leave creates a perfect opportunity to offer fixed term employment contracts to people you can measure against the leave employee's performance. Once the leave is up if the contract employee has worked out they are offered full time employment (or sometimes other parental leave contracts). The obvious loophole is to not hire full time employees and to just string people along on contract after contract, but there is an employment law (at least here in Ontario) that companies cannot use contracts for an employee again after 4 out of the last 5 years contract work. The relationship either has to be terminated for a time (I think 2 years), converted to full time employment, or shifted to a true business to business agreement where the employee incorporates. > What if the person takes parental leave again after 1 month back? Parental leave available to everyone is funded by employment insurance, so your available leave is partly tied to how much you have worked prior to going on leave. Employers are free to augment EI, but everyone qualifies for the basic leave and it's paid for by everyone paying into the EI pool. Each individual company and person is not left holding the bag. Like our health care, spreading the costs to everyone makes things more sustainable since not every person in the country goes on leave or gets sick at the same time. https://www.canada.ca/en/services/benefits/ei/ei-maternity-parental/eligibility.html https://www.canada.ca/en/services/benefits/ei/ei-maternity-p...