An employee to whom the administrative authority or any body designated by regulation entrusts a child with a view to adoption is entitled to adoption leave of up to sixteen weeks, taken within a period and divided up in accordance with the terms and conditions determined by decree.
Adoption leave is extended to :
1° Eighteen weeks when the adoption brings the number of children for whom the employee or the household is responsible to three or more;
2° Twenty-two weeks in the event of multiple adoptions.