How to use the long-term illness leave medical certificate — and autofill on00880 with my-id.ca
Support long-term illness leave without retyping employee and practitioner details
Employees and qualified health practitioners completing medical certificates for long-term illness leave repeat the employee's name, contact information, and leave particulars on every certificate package. This guide is an example of storing them once in my-id.ca.
Official form and source
Start from the official source and always use the current version — form numbers and links can change:
- Service page: Long-term illness leave — ontario.ca
- Form (Central Forms Repository): Medical Certificate to Support Entitlement to Long-term Illness Leave — on00880
What this form is about
Form on00880 is the Medical Certificate to Support Entitlement to Long-term Illness Leave under the Employment Standards Act — confirm certificate rules on ontario.ca.
Before you start: what to gather
- Employee legal name and contact details.
- Employer name if required on the certificate.
- Serious medical condition period — completed by the practitioner.
- Qualified health practitioner to sign — confirm on ontario.ca.
Confirm the current process on ontario.ca.
How my-id.ca makes it faster
- Save it once. Store your employee name, contact details, and employer information in your my-id.ca profile.
- Keep documents ready. Upload supporting documents to my-id.ca Files so you are not searching at form time.
- Autofill the form. Use the my-id.ca Chrome extension on a web form, or fill a PDF from your saved profile inside my-id.ca.
- Review and submit yourself through the official channel.
Why do it in my-id.ca
Related Ontario forms repeat the same personal details. Captured once in my-id.ca — stored in Canada, with AI on its own servers — every form starts mostly complete.
Frequently asked questions
- When is a medical certificate required?
- Employers may request a certificate confirming a serious medical condition — confirm on ontario.ca.
- How does my-id.ca help?
- It autofills employee name, contact details, and employer information.
- How does on00880 relate to form on00407?
- Form on00407 supports family caregiver and related leaves; on00880 is for long-term illness leave.
Fill it once. Reuse it everywhere.
Save your information in my-id.ca once, then autofill this form and the next one — web forms with the Chrome extension, PDFs right in the app. Your data is stored in Canada and AI runs on my-id.ca's own servers, never sent to third-party AI providers.