E-3.1 - Election Act

Full text
31. An employer must, upon request, grant leave without pay to an employee who is a candidate or who acts as the official agent of a candidate. The period of leave begins on the date on which the nomination paper is received by the returning officer and ends on the eighth day after polling day. The employee may terminate that leave at any time.
An employer shall not, by reason of that leave, dismiss an employee or subtract the leave so granted from the employee’s period of vacation.
1979, c. 56, s. 31.