On March 15, the Province of Manitoba passed the amendments to the Employment Standards Code regarding Domestic Violence Leave. The law will give victims five paid days (to be taken in one stretch or intermittently, when needed), five unpaid days and an additional 17-week unpaid period, if a victim needs to flee and find a new place to live.
To learn more about this first of its kind law, please click here
CPHR Manitoba is located on Treaty 1 territory, the home and traditional lands of the Annishinabe (Ojibwe), Ininew (Cree), Oji-Cree, Dakota and Dene peoples, and in the National Homeland of the Red River Métis. Our clean drinking water comes from Shoal
Lake 40 First Nation in Treaty 3 territory.