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Know Your Rights: Job-Protected Serious Illness Leave

December 8, 2025
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Know your rights!

There are new changes to B.C.’s Employment Standards Act when it comes to serious illness and injury leave. If you have a medical certificate from a doctor or nurse practitioner, you can now take as many as 27 weeks of unpaid, job-protected leave within a 12-month period to undergo medical treatment and focus on recovery.

An employer cannot terminate you or change your conditions of employment as a result of this leave!

Find out more: https://heyor.ca/42TkLf

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