N-1.1 - Act respecting labour standards

Section 79.8 Disposition versions

2023-06-08

79.8. An employee may be absent from work for a period of not more than 16 weeks over a period of 12 months where the employee must stay with a relative or a person for whom the employee acts as a caregiver, as attested by a professional working in the health and social services sector and governed by the Professional Code (chapter C-26), because of a serious illness or a serious accident. Where the relative or person is a minor child, the period of absence is not more than 36 weeks over a period of 12 months.

However, if a minor child of the employee has a serious and potentially mortal illness, attested by a medical certificate, the employee is entitled to an extension of the absence, which shall end at the latest 104 weeks after the beginning thereof.

2002, c. 80, s. 29; 2005, c. 13, s. 82; 2007, c. 36, s. 10; 2018, c. 21, s. 22; 2022, c. 22, s. 156.

2018-06-12

79.8. An employee may be absent from work for a period of not more than 16 weeks over a period of 12 months where he must stay with a relative or a person for whom the employee acts as a caregiver, as attested by a professional working in the health and social services sector and governed by the Professional Code (chapter C-26), because of a serious illness or a serious accident. Where the relative or person is a minor child, the period of absence is not more than 36 weeks over a period of 12 months.

However, if a minor child of the employee has a serious and potentially mortal illness, attested by a medical certificate, the employee is entitled to an extension of the absence, which shall end at the latest 104 weeks after the beginning thereof.

2002, c. 80, s. 29; 2005, c. 13, s. 82; 2007, c. 36, s. 10; 2018, c. 21, s. 22.

2007-12-18

79.8. An employee may be absent from work for a period of not more than 12 weeks over a period of 12 months where he must stay with his child, spouse, the child of his spouse, his father, his mother, the spouse of his father or mother, his brother, his sister or one of his grandparents because of a serious illness or a serious accident.

However, if a minor child of the employee has a serious and potentially mortal illness, attested by a medical certificate, the employee is entitled to an extension of the absence, which shall end at the latest 104 weeks after the beginning thereof.

2002, c. 80, s. 29; 2005, c. 13, s. 82; 2007, c. 36, s. 10.

2006-01-01

79.8. An employee who is credited with three months of uninterrupted service may be absent from work, without pay, for a period of not more than 12 weeks over a period of 12 months where he must stay with his child, spouse, the child of his spouse, his father, his mother, the spouse of his father or mother, his brother, his sister or one of his grandparents because of a serious illness or a serious accident.

An employee must advise the employer as soon as possible of an absence from work and, at the employer’s request, furnish a document justifying the absence.

However, if a minor child of the employee has a serious and potentially mortal illness, attested by a medical certificate, the employee is entitled to an extension of the absence, which shall end at the latest 104 weeks after the beginning thereof.

The first paragraph of section 79.3, the first paragraph of section 79.4 and sections 79.5 and 79.6 apply, with the necessary modifications, to the employee’s absence.

2002, c. 80, s. 29; 2005, c. 13, s. 82.

2003-05-01

79.8. An employee who is credited with three months of uninterrupted service may be absent from work, without pay, for a period of not more than 12 weeks over a period of 12 months where he must stay with his child, spouse, the child of his spouse, his father, mother, brother, sister or one of his grandparents because of a serious illness or a serious accident.

An employee must advise the employer as soon as possible of an absence from work and, at the employer’s request, furnish a document justifying the absence.

However, if a minor child of the employee has a serious and potentially mortal illness, attested by a medical certificate, the employee is entitled to an extension of the absence, which shall end at the latest 104 weeks after the beginning thereof.

The first paragraph of section 79.3, the first paragraph of section 79.4 and sections 79.5 and 79.6 apply, with the necessary modifications, to the employee’s absence.

2002, c. 80, s. 29.