UBC offers many different types of paid and unpaid leaves – from time off for professional development to a leave to look after a critically or terminally ill family member. The links below provide information about the leaves available to you and how you can request the time off.
Depending on your UBC employee group and the type of leave, your UBC benefits might be affected. On some leaves, you continue to receive your UBC benefits, while for other leaves, you will need to pay both your cost and UBC’s cost to maintain your benefits. See Benefits Coverage while on a Leave for more information.
Types of leaves
- Administrative leave
- Vacation, including long service recognition
- Paid sick leave, including time off for medical/dental appointments and looking after a sick family member
- Unpaid sick leave, if you use up all of your paid sick leave days and are unable to return to work
- Legislative sick leave, applies to certain employees at UBC
- Learning and professional leaves such as study leave and sabbaticals
- General leave, including time off to care for a critically or terminally ill or injured family member
- Maternity, parental and adoption leave, including pre-placement adoption leave
- Compassionate care leave, to look after a terminally ill family member, and compassionate/bereavement leave in the case of a death of a family member
- Winter leave, Some employees are eligible for paid leave over the Winter holidays, between Christmas/Boxing Day and New Year’s Day.
- Leave between appointments for Sessional Lecturers
- Personal leaves, including:
- Jury duty or court witness duty
- Special leave
- Personal emergency leave
- Citizenship leave
- Military leave
- Leave to take political office
- Public Duties
- Religious and Cultural Observance
- Leave for university and union business, including:
- Administrative leave
- University committee leave
- Leave at the request of the University
- Exchange leave
- Union business
- Negotiations and grievance pay provisions
- Full-time union or public duties
- Faculty: Tenure clock extension
- Faculty: Study leave
- Indigenous leave for ceremonial, cultural and spiritual events
- Domestic violence leave