Family Caregiver Leave: What You Need to Know About 35 percent of Canada’s workforce consists of employee caregivers. They are family members or friends who provide caregiving for a loved one while juggling the demands of work. Not surprisingly, many of them require family caregiver leave at some point, but some might be reluctant […]
Financial impact of Caregiving More than one in four Albertans aged 15 and older provide unpaid care for a family member or friend. On average, they spend about 15.1 hours every week providing caregiving duties — or 647 million hours per year. The value of that unpaid labour? It was estimated to be $11 […]