GI-2025-26-reg1: Regulations Amending Certain Regulations Made Under the Canada Labour Code (Leave Related to Pregnancy Loss, Bereavement Leave and Leave for Placement of Child)

If you run a federally regulated business — think trucking, airlines, banks, telecommunications, railways, or port operations — this affects all ~19,150 employers covering about 1,020,000 workers across Canada. Your most immediate obligation is updating the labour standards notice posted in your workplace to include the two new leave types, which the government estimates will take about 10 minutes per location and cost roughly $2.45 million industry-wide upfront. On an ongoing basis, you'll need to keep records whenever an employee takes paid pregnancy loss leave or changes the length of a bereavement leave — minor administrative tasks estimated at about one minute per occurrence. If you employ casual longshore workers on a dispatch (multi-employer) system, you'll also now owe three days of paid pregnancy loss leave to those workers, worth roughly $1,214 per eligible claim. Small businesses face an average net cost of about $64 over 10 years, with total industry compliance costs estimated at $6.09 million in present value over a decade.