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Last Updated: 2026-06-26
Setup Considerations: Paid Sick Leave for British Columbia

Setup Considerations: Paid Sick Leave for British Columbia

You can use this topic to help make decisions when planning your configuration and use of the Paid Sick Leave for British Columbia feature. It explains:
  • Why to set it up.
  • How it fits into the rest of Workday.
  • Downstream impacts and cross-product interactions.
  • Security requirements and business process configurations.
  • Questions and limitations to consider before implementation.
Refer to detailed task instructions for full configuration details.

What It Is

Workday supports the automated calculation for paid sick leave for British Columbia hourly workers in compliance with British Columbia provincial regulations. This feature uses:
  • Workday Time Tracking to calculate the hours in the 30 calendar day lookback period.
  • Workday Payroll for Canada to calculate the rate of pay for paid sick leave hours.

Business Benefits

This feature enables you to automate the complex process of calculating an average day’s pay for workers in British Columbia with irregular schedules.

Use Cases

Pay a worker’s sick leave based on British Columbia provincial regulatory compliance.

Questions to Consider

No impact.

Recommendations

No impact.

Requirements

You must have Workday Payroll, Workday Time Tracking, and Workday Absence Management to use the paid sick leave functionality.
Use Workday Time Tracking to configure:
  • Time off worktags.
  • Calendar dates for paid sick leave.
Use Workday Payroll to set up earnings.
Use Workday Absence Management to set up a time off plan for BC sick pay.

Limitations

Workday doesn't support:
  • Retroactive paid sick leave.
  • Multiple jobs or positions for paid sick leave.
  • Workers with international assignments in Canada.
  • Payroll input for BC Paid Sick Leave pay components.

Tenant Setup

No impact.

Security

Domain
Considerations
Set Up: Payroll (Paid Sick Leave - CAN)
in the Canada Payroll functional area.
Enables users to access paid sick leave configuration data.
You can add role-based pay groups and unconstrained groups to this security domain, which enables pay administrators and pay partners to view paid sick leave data that's relevant to their role.
Set Up: Time Tracking
in the Time Tracking functional area.
Enables users to set up basic Time Tracking configuration data including Time Entry Codes and Time Entry Templates.
Set Up: Time Off
in the Time Off and Leave functional area.
Enables users to view or update their time off calculations and absence-specific data.

Business Processes

No impact.

Reporting

You can use the
All Paid Sick Leave Configurations
report to review all paid sick leave data in a given period.

Integrations

No impact.

Connections and Touchpoints

Paid sick leave interacts with these Workday areas:
Features
Considerations
Look-back periods
Workday Payroll.
Workday uses look-back periods to define a time boundary for earnings to determine a worker's paid sick leave.
Calculation tags
Workday Time Tracking.
Workday uses a worker's paid sick leave time off worktag to:
  • Calculate the average number of applicable hours per worked day over the specified look-back period.
  • Determine the number of hours in the paid sick leave time block.
Workday offers a Touchpoints Kit with resources to help you understand configuration relationships in your tenant. Learn more about the Workday Touchpoints Kit on Workday Community.

Other Impacts

No impact.