Committee recommends MPs not be docked pay for parental leave
The Procedure and House Affairs Committee says MPs should change the Standing Orders to make it official that infants are allowed in the House, and create more family-friendly spaces on the Hill.
Two MPs with young children are applauding a new House committee report that recommends the House not count parental leave as absence, and formalize that infants are allowed in the House Chamber. Two MPs who are mothers of babies, NDP MP Christine Moore (Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Que.) and Bloc Québécois MP Marilène Gill (Manicouagan, Que.), agreed with the recommendations, but both said there’s more work to do. The report, tabled late last month by the Procedure and House Affairs Committee, recommends that
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