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74: Calculation of maximum number of days of employment relations education leave
or “ This law explains how to figure out how many days off workers can get for learning about their job rights, based on how many people work at their company. ”
You could also call this:

“The union tells the boss how many days workers can take off to learn about their job rights.”

After a union figures out how many days of employment relations education leave are allowed, they need to tell the employer about it. The union must give the employer a notice that includes the total number of days calculated and explains how they worked it out.

The union has to do this within one month after a certain date each year. This date is called the ‘specified date’.

The union isn’t allowed to give out any employment relations education leave until they’ve told the employer about the calculation.

If the union doesn’t tell the employer about the calculation within the one-month timeframe, they lose some of the leave. For every full month they’re late, they lose one-twelfth of the total leave.

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Part 7 Employment relations education leave

75Union to notify employer of maximum number of days of employment relations education leave calculated

  1. After calculating the maximum number of days of employment relations education leave, a union must give the employer concerned a notice containing—

  2. the maximum number of days calculated in respect of the employer; and
    1. the details of the calculation.

      1. The union must comply with subsection (1) within 1 month after the specified date in each year.

      2. Until a union complies with this section, the union must not allocate employment relations education leave.

      3. If a union fails to comply with subsections (1) and (2), the union forfeits one-twelfth of the employment relations education leave for each complete month that the failure continues.