s.17Sick leave
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Section 17Part 2 — Leave

Sick leave

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Subject to this section, each employee is entitled to sick leave on workdays, or parts thereof, during which that person is ill or otherwise physically incapacitated for work.
Sick leave shall be taken only in connection with actual illness or other physical incapacitation for work, evidence of which, in the form of a doctor's certificate or other satisfactory means, shall be furnished by the involved employee at any time upon request of the employer made under subsection (5) and in any event in respect of the third and any subsequent consecutive days of such leave.
A doctor's certificate furnished by an employee which provides evidence that the employee was ill or otherwise physically incapacitated from working for that person's employer on a particular day shall be satisfactory evidence of that illness or incapacity for the purpose of the entitlement of the employee to sick leave pay under this Part.
Subsection (3) shall not require an employer to accept a doctor's certificate as evidence of an employee's sickness or incapacity where there are reasonable grounds for the employer to suspect that the certificate has been procured in furtherance of, or as part of, a course of absenteeism.
An employer may require an employee to furnish that person with a medical certificate in respect of any purported sick leave, no matter how short, where the employer is of the opinion that it forms part of a pattern of absenteeism.
In the event that the employer considers that the extent of sick leave taken renders the employee unfit to continue in that person's employment and terminates the employment therefore, the fairness of the termination shall be determined under Part VII.
Every employee who is ill or otherwise physically incapacitated so as to justify that person's absence from work under subsection (1) shall notify that person's employer of that fact as soon as reasonably practicable.

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