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CANADIAN HR REPORTER CANADIAN HR REPORTER April 7, 2014 April 7, 2014 NEWS NEWS 7 with the workplace, it can be a valuable opportunity for career development. However, it also raises a number of tricky issues and considerations. "You really want to respect the responsibility placed on the employer to replace you and the person who is replacing you," said Beeman. "And you have to be realistic about what you want to commit to. It can be a really good time to develop new projects, to do the background work for things you've always thought that the company or the organization could do, but you're so busy with your portfolios that it's not some- thing you've had the time to delve into. You could look at developing new projects, research on new cli- entele… you can look at whether it's possible to participate in devel- opmental meetings." Depending on the organization, there could also be opportunities for training and development, ac- cording to Alison Konrad, Corus Entertainment chair in women and management, based in Lon- don, Ont. "Technology gives us a big leg up here because lots of companies put their training on the intranet. ere's lots of important training modules that are done that way and you just log in and you can have very rich training — there can be video involved, there can be self-testing… Being co-located is not a barrier anymore to train- ing," she said. Even in-person training op- portunities could be an attractive possibility, depending on the in- dividual's situation, said Konrad. "Being part of all-day offsite training where selected high-po- tential people are together with senior leaders, that's where you want to be face-to-face. And if a woman has demonstrated inter- est — or even if she hasn't said it directly — letting people know that this opportunity to go to this one-day thing is available… I don't think it would be a violation," she said. "I know there are a number of women who would jump at that (chance) and others who would say no. And it would be very im- portant that saying no would not have any negative repercussions." If a woman is going to stay in- volved, however, it's very impor- tant to be clear about the expecta- tions on both sides, said Beeman. "It's very difficult to have a halfway position between going back to work and not going back to work — are you working or are you not? And if you are working, then there are other things you have to declare to EI." EI, employment standards and legal considerations When a woman stays on in a part-time capacity during her mat leave, it raises issues on two diff erent fronts, said Piccolo: Her employment insurance (EI) and her protections under employ- ment standards. When it comes to EI, there is a relatively new "working while on claim" pilot project that aff ects parental leave, said Piccolo. "Previously, if someone was working during their parental leave, dollar for dollar what they earned would be deducted from their EI benefi t," she said. "What's happening now, under the pilot project, is an employee is able to keep 50 cents of their EI benefi ts for every dollar they earn, up to 90 per cent of their weekly insurable earnings that were used to calculate their EI benefit. After the 90 per cent threshold, then they deduct dol- lar for dollar." But the most signifi cant issue is when it comes to employment standards. "Under the (Ontario) Employ- ment Standards Act, the leave is unpaid, there's a bunch of rules and rights that employees have… and it's those rules and rights that sort of create a bit of a confl ict when an employee decides that they are going to or would like to work during that leave," said Piccolo. Under Ontario's rules, em- ployees are entitled to up to 52 weeks off and guaranteed job protection — or a comparable job if their position no longer exists when they return. But if they work while on leave, all of those employee rights and employer obligations are null, said Piccolo. "Under the Employment Standards Act, the moment that someone returns — even if it's on a part-time basis — the leave is over," she said. "So the entitle- ments/protections that go along with the maternity/parental leave for the employee are done. e employee's back at work." at's why it's so important to clearly defi ne the employment re- lationship if the woman is going to be doing any part-time work during a maternity leave. "It's really about (defi ning) it so we're not left in a situation where an employee thinks they have certain rights but they don't, or an employer thinks they have certain obligations but they don't," said Piccolo. "Defi ne the length of the leave, and defi ne what you will or will not permit an employee to do dur- ing that leave." 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