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Leave for Work-related Illness and Injury

Any federally regulated employee who has suffered a work-related illness or injury is entitled to leave. No employer can dismiss, layoff, demote or discipline you because of such illness or injury.

Employers must therefore:

• Subscribe to a plan that will replace your wages for this kind of leave at a rate equivalent to that provided by provincial or territorial workers’ compensation in the province where you live.
• Maintain your seniority during your absence.
• Guarantee you a job upon your return to work (although not necessarily the same job you left if you are no longer able to perform the necessary tasks), where reasonably practicable. (There may be some exceptions; please contact the Labour Program for more information)
• Continue to contribute, as usual, to your benefit plans.

Pamphlet #7 – Sick Leave and Work-related Illness and Injury Leave provides further information.

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Date Modified:

2012-02-15