important query

When reading your post, my first thought was how pregnant are you?

It all depends on your relationship with your unit manager. I've had co-workers wait until they are safely past the 12 week mark and others shout it out the minute they got the result.

The thing you need to consider is will you have worked enough hours to be able to obtain maternity benefits?

I don't imagine that your unit will be thrilled. You will be roughly five months along when you arrive. Your orientation usually lasts a month. Most nurses don't work until their due dates unless they are employed in public health, most hospital floor jobs are just too heavy. Your co-workers won't be thrilled either to have to cover your heavy patients and then have you go off on maternity leave roughly three months after your arrival.

You might just make the 600 hours of employment if you work until your due date.

A better question would be how will your pregnancy affect your employment contract when there is no way you can work one solid year.

This might give you more info:

http://www.workrights.ca/content.php?doc=95&xwm=true

Looks like SK requires 20 weeks with your employer before you can claim.

Well, just to let you know that childcare for newborns is difficult to find, expensive and most providers won't cover the 12 hour shifts that some nurses work. Also many centres have really long waitlists with many newborns being registered before conception (really, I'm not making it up)

I take it you would be coming alone and have no support network? Was the plan for the father to follow at a later date? One friend got married last year and her husband will arrive in September, just in time for their anniversary.

You also need to be honest with your recruiter as soon as possible. I know that pregnancies happen BUT when you have been involved in this process for as long as you have been very reliable contraception should have been a priority (and yes, I know the Phillipines is a very Catholic country).

Starting a new job with a newborn in a new country without a support group, spouse, and reliable income is risky to say the very least.

Perhaps they could defer your departure until after the child is born and the father could provide care?