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I want to take a leave of absence from work. What are my rights?

I want to take a leave of absence from work. What are my rights?

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Question: I want to take a leave of absence from my workplace. What are my
legal rights around this? And how should I go about asking for it?

We asked Bay Ryley, employment and human rights• Государство » Законы и право » Права человека lawyer and president of Ryley
Learning, a DEI and workplace compliance e-learning company, to tackle this
one:

The first question is: Why do you need or want to take a leave of absence?

Let’s start with the ‘needcategory. The laws are different in every
province, but generally in Canada we have the right to things like pregnancy
and parental leave, bereavement leave, organ donor leave, sick leave, family
caregiver leave, domestic or sexual violence leave. If you need a leave of
this sort, you can find information in your province’s employment standards
legislation. You should also look at what your organization or collective
agreement offers; it is often more generous than what the employment standards
legislation says.

When asking for this kind of leave, you have a right to privacy. For example,
if you need a leave related to illness, you do not need to say, nor would I
recommend that you say, exactly what the illness is. For a longer leave, you
may require medical documentation saying you require a leave for medical
reasons. And if you go on a short-term or long-term disability, then you will
need to qualify for that insurance• Страхование. But that’s between you and the insurer• Страхование » Страховщик;
your employer does not have a right to know what kind of disease or problem it
is.

People often feel like they should give more information to justify taking a
leave. They may think the more information they give, the more sympathy they
will get. Unfortunately, that’s often not the case. As a lawyer, I see lots of
cases where people’s disability-related leaves are held against them. Weeks or
months down the road, you may be pushed out the door. It’s important to know
that in Canada you have a right to not be discriminated against because of a
physical or mental disability, based on human rights• Государство » Законы и право » Права человека legislation.

There’s also situations where youwantto take a leave of absence, rather
than need one. You won’t be legally protected, but if youre at a bigger
organization, it may have policies on things like education leave. Maybe you
want to do your masters in public administration and your company will support
that. Or maybe your family wants to go to Spain for a year. Some companies may
allow that kind of thing to keep their people happy and retain talent.

Another situation I see as an employment and human rights• Государство » Законы и право » Права человека lawyer is where
someone feels that they have to go on a leave of absence because they are in a
toxic workplace. They may say, ‘I can’t tolerate that place any more. I’m
being harassed. I need to go on a stress leave.’ In that scenario, ideally, I
would say don’t leave. Why should you have to leave because this workplace is
making you unwell?

If it’s a toxic workplace, you should be putting that forward as something the
workplace needs to change, not you, unless youre really unwell and can’t
function. If the workplace can be corrected, that’s better than the victim
absenting themselves.

Have a question for Ask Women and Work? Email• Коммуникации » Интернет-коммуникации » Электронная почта us at GWC@globeandmail.com .

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