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Bill 200, Employment Standards Amendment Act (Sick Notes), 2020

Schreiner, Mike

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EXPLANATORY

NOTE

The

Bill amends the Employment Standards Act, 2000 . It is about what

evidence an employer can make an employee provide to show that they are

entitled to sick leave. Employers retain the right to make an employee show

evidence that they are entitled to sick leave, but are not permitted to require

a certificate from a qualified health practitioner.

Bill 200 2020

Act to amend the Employment Standards Act, 2000 in respect of sick notes

Her

Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the

Province of Ontario, enacts as follows:

Subsection 50 (6) of the Employment Standards Act, 2000

is repealed and the following substituted:

Evidence

(6) An

employer may require an employee who takes leave under this

section to provide

evidence reasonable in the circumstances that the employee is entitled to the

leave, but shall not require an employee to provide a certificate from a

qualified health practitioner as evidence.

Same

(6.1) In

subsection (6),

“qualified

health practitioner” means,

(

a) a

person who is qualified to practise as a physician or nurse under the laws of

the jurisdiction in which care or treatment is provided to the employee, or

(

b) in

the prescribed circumstances, a member of a prescribed class of health

practitioners.

Commencement

This Act comes into force one month after the day it receives Royal Assent.

Short

title

The

short title of this Act is the Employment Standards

Amendment Act (Sick Notes), 2020

Date Bill stage Event Outcome Committee

October 21, 2020

Second Reading

Ordered referred to Standing Committee

Standing Committee on General Government

October 21, 2020

Second Reading

Vote

Carried

October 21, 2020

Second Reading

Debated

September 14, 2020

First Reading

Vote

Carried

Debates and Progress

First Reading

September 14, 2020

Committee

Second Reading

October 21, 2020

Mr. Mike Schreiner, Ms. Goldie Ghamar, Ms. Peggy Sattler, Mme Lucille Collard, Mr. Lorne Coe, Ms. Bhutila Karpoche, Mr. John Fraser, Mme France Gélinas

Declared carried. Referred to the Standing Committee on General Government.

Committee

Standing Committee on General Government

Third Reading

Royal Assent

Acts affected - Bill 200

Most Ontario public acts are available electronically; to view copies of the Acts to be amended by this bill visit e-laws

Employment Standards Act, 2000

Legislative Assembly of Ontario

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