On November 27, 2025, British Columbia Bill 30 received Royal Assent, establishing a new illness and injury leave for employees. This law, effective immediately, provides up to 27 weeks of unpaid leave each year.
Length of Leave and Eligibility
The new law amends the British Columbia Employment Standards Act (ESA) to provide up to 27 weeks of job-protected leave per 52-week period for any employee with a “serious personal illness or injury” that leaves them unable to work for at least one week. This 52-week period is measured from the date of an employee’s first use of leave under the law.
Because this new leave is established alongside existing leaves under the ESA, employees taking serious illness or injury leave have the same rights as for other absences, including the right to be reinstated to the same or a comparable position.
The law provides that this leave is unpaid and must be taken in at least one-week increments. The length of an employee’s leave is measured beginning either the day on which they became unable to work or the day on which they took leave from their work, whichever is earlier. Conversely, an employee’s leave is considered to have ended when the employee returns to work, has taken the full 27 weeks of leave, or 52 weeks have passed since the employee’s first leave within that period, whichever is earliest.
Importantly, the law does not prescribe a number of days that an employee must have been employed before being eligible for the leave, though...
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