Those are all great reasons to consider doing away with the requirement, but there are other, more simple ones. The doctors clearly don’t want to deal with writing sick notes.

Physician advocacy group Doctors Manitoba is calling on employers to get rid of sick note requirements in the workplace as a way of freeing up physicians to do less paperwork and more patient care.

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WINNIPEG — The group that represents physicians across Manitoba stepped up its campaign to restrict the use of sick notes Tuesday. Doctors Manitoba launched a web page, social media video and ...

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Doctors Manitoba launched a web page, social media video and guide for employers aimed at highlighting the amount of time and money taken up by workers who have to get sick notes to explain their ...

The doctors' advocacy group is appealing to employers to eliminate sick notes for short-term absences, saying physicians in Manitoba get 600,000 requests for the notes annually.

Doctors Manitoba asked the government earlier this year to follow most other provinces and set limits on how employers can demand sick notes. The Saskatchewan government recently passed a law that ...

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