With Ontario looking to ban sick notes, should sick days be replaced with personal days?

'What it's really is doing is encouraging people to lie,' says academic on sick note requirement from employees

With Ontario looking to ban sick notes, should sick days be replaced with personal days?

Ontario employers will no longer be allowed to ask workers for a sick note when they want to use their three provincially mandated sick days, Health Minister Sylvia Jones announced last week. But some experts say sick notes, and maybe even sick days, should be replaced altogether by personal days.

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