No.

Employees may be entitled to unpaid parental leave when they adopt a child. However, fostering a child, on either a long term or short term basis, isn’t the same as adopting a child.

This means that employees that foster a child aren’t entitled to unpaid parental leave under the National Employment Standards.

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