11/13/2025
Effective immediately, employers can only ask for sick notes in limited circumstances - freeing up healthcare professionals to care for more patients, not paperwork. This is welcome news as we move into the winter respiratory illness season. 🙌🏼
This change gives valuable time back to our already stretched providers and lets workers stay home to recover without the hassle of unnecessary appointments or out-of-pocket costs just to prove they’re sick.
And this is just one step. We’re continuing to focus on cutting administrative burden for doctors, from streamlining forms and digitizing processes to reducing unnecessary reporting, so they can spend more time with patients and less time on paperwork. ✍🏽
Read more! https://news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2025LBR0041-001106 tce