Act respecting labour standards Chapter IV - Larbour standards (Section 39.1 to 97)
Chapter IV - Larbour standards (Section 39.1 to 97)
Division V.1 - Family or parental leave and absences (Section 79.7 to 81.17.6)
Section 79.6.1
For the purposes of sections 79.7 to 79.8.1, “relative” means, in addition to the employee’s spouse, the child, father, mother, brother, sister and grandparents of the employee or the employee’s spouse as well as those persons’ spouses, their children and their children’s spouses.
The following are also considered to be an employee’s relative for the purposes of those sections:
- a person having acted, or acting, as a foster family for the employee or the employee’s spouse;
- a child for whom the employee or the employee’s spouse has acted, or is acting, as a foster family;
- a tutor or curator of the employee or the employee’s spouse or a person under the tutorship or curatorship of the employee or the employee’s spouse;
- an incapable person having designated the employee or the employee’s spouse as mandatary; and
- any other person in respect of whom the employee is entitled to benefits under an Act for the assistance and care the employee provides owing to the person’s state of health.