Canada Labour Standards Regulations

Marginal note:Modification — subsection 239(1.21) of the Act

• 33.1 (1) With respect to employers that base the calculation of the annual vacation of their employees on a year other than a calendar year, subsection 239(1.21) of the Act is modified as follows:

  • Marginal note:Maximum of 10 days

    (1.21) Subject to the regulations, an employee is entitled to earn up to 10 days of medical leave of absence with pay in a calendar year or in a year used by the employer to calculate the annual vacation of their employees.

• Marginal note:Modification — subsection 239(1.4) of the Act

  (2) With respect to employers that base the calculation of the annual vacation of their employees on a year other than a calendar year and that use a year other than a calendar year to calculate the days of medical leave of absence with pay of their employees, subsection 239(1.4) of the Act is modified as follows:

  • Marginal note:Annual carry forward

    (1.4) Subject to the regulations, each day of medical leave of absence with pay that an employee does not take in the year used by the employer to calculate the annual vacation of their employees is to be carried forward to the first day of the following year and decreases, by one, the maximum number of days that can be earned in that year under subsection (1.21), as modified by subsection 33.1(1) of the Canada Labour Standards Regulations.