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Medical & Family Caregiving Leave Rights – Know The Laws Of Your Province
Medical & Family Caregiving Leaves Across Canada
(parentheses indicate minimum service for eligibility)
FEDERAL
Compassionate Care 28 weeks
Family Responsibility
Family Critical Illness Care Child: 37 weeks Adult: 17 weeks
Sick Leave 17 weeks (3 months)
Illness or Injury Workers’ comp equiv.
Bereavement 3 days paid, 2 days unpaid
Personal 3 days paid, 2 days unpaid (3 months)
COVID-19 Up to 16 weeks
ALBERTA
Compassionate Care 27 weeks
Family Responsibility 5 days
Family Critical Illness Care Child: 36 weeks Adult: 16 weeks
Sick Leave
Illness or Injury 16 weeks
Bereavement 3 days
Personal
COVID-19 Up to 14 days
BRITISH COLUMBIA
Compassionate Care 27 weeks
Family Responsibility 5 days
Family Critical Illness Care Child: 36 weeks Adult: 16 weeks
Sick Leave 3 days (90 days)
Illness or Injury
Bereavement 3 days
Personal
COVID-19 For as long as need for leave lasts, retroactive to Jan. 27, 2020
MANITOBA
Compassionate Care 28 weeks (90 days)
Family Responsibility 3 days (30 days)
Family Critical Illness Care Child: 37 weeks Adult: 17 weeks
Sick Leave
Illness or Injury 17 weeks (90 days)
Bereavement
Personal
COVID-19 For as long as need for leave lasts, retroactive to March 1, 2020
NEW BRUNSWICK
Compassionate Care 28 weeks
Family Responsibility 3 days
Family Critical Illness Care Child: 37 weeks Adult: 16 weeks
Sick Leave 5 days (90 days)
Illness or Injury
Bereavement 5 days
Personal
COVID-19 Up to 15 weeks
NEWFOUNDLAND & LABRADOR
Compassionate Care 28 weeks (30 days)
Family Responsibility 7 days (30 days)
Family Critical Illness Care Child: 37 weeks Adult: 17 weeks (30 days)
Sick Leave 7 days (30 days)
Illness or Injury
Bereavement 1 day paid, 2 days unpaid (30 days)
Personal
COVID-19 For as long as COVID-19 remains a designated communicable disease*
NOVA SCOTIA
Compassionate Care 28 weeks
Family Responsibility
Family Critical Illness Care Child: 37 weeks Adult: 16 weeks
Sick Leave 3 days
Illness or Injury
Bereavement 5 days
Personal
COVID-19
ONTARIO
Compassionate Care 28 weeks
Family Responsibility 8 weeks
Family Critical Illness Care Child: 37 weeks Adult: 17 weeks
Sick Leave 3 days
Illness or Injury
Bereavement 2 days
Personal
COVID-19 For as long as infectious disease public emergency remains in effect*
PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND
Compassionate Care 28 weeks
Family Responsibility 3 days (6 months)
Family Critical Illness Care Child: 37 weeks
Sick Leave 3 days + 1 paid day after 5 years of employment
Illness or Injury
Bereavement Immediate Family: 1 day paid, 2 days unpaid; Extended Family: 3 days unpaid
Personal
COVID-19
QUÉBEC
Compassionate Care
Family Responsibility 26 weeks
Family Critical Illness Care Child: 36 weeks Adult: 16 weeks OR 27 weeks for potentially fatal illness + 104 weeks for fatal illness of child
Sick Leave 2 days paid
Illness or Injury 26 weeks
Bereavement Immediate Family: 2 days paid, 1 day unpaid; Extended Family: 1 day unpaid
Personal
COVID-19
SASKATCHEWAN
Compassionate Care 28 weeks
Family Responsibility
Family Critical Illness Care Child: 37 weeks Adult: 17 weeks
Sick Leave 12 days (13 weeks)
Illness or Injury 12 weeks
Bereavement 5 days
Personal
COVID-19 For as long as public health emergency remains in effect*
NORTHWEST TERRITORIES
Compassionate Care 27 weeks
Family Responsibility
Family Critical Illness Care Child: 37 weeks Adult: 16 weeks
Sick Leave 5 days
Illness or Injury
Bereavement 3 to 7 days depending on location
Personal
COVID-19
NUNAVUT
Compassionate Care 8 weeks
Family Responsibility
Family Critical Illness Care
Sick Leave
Illness or Injury
Bereavement
Personal
COVID-19
YUKON TERRITORY
Compassionate Care 28 weeks
Family Responsibility
Family Critical Illness Care Child: 37 weeks Adult: 17 weeks
Sick Leave 1 day per month
Illness or Injury
Bereavement 7 days
Personal
COVID-19 Up to 14 days, to be taken in one continuous period

*Note: Leave applies not just to COVID-19 but to other infectious diseases prompting a health emergency