Ontario’s Working For Workers Five Act, 2024, received royal assent this week, introducing changes to several pieces of provincial legislation, including the Employment Standards Act, 2000, Occupational Health and Safety Act, and Workplace Safety and Insurance Act. Key changes to these pieces of ...
On December 19, 2024, the Ontario government gave royal assent to Bill 229, Working for Workers Six Act, 2024, to amend theEmployment Standards Actto support the safety and wellbeing of workers and their families by creating a new job-protected placement of a child leave and a long-term il...
Find the full text of the Ontario Employment Standards Act and all regulations, a discussion of the various provisions of the Act and a collection of Digests referenced to the applicable portions of the book.Kimberly A. Parry
They are aware that s. 27 (1) of the EPFNA provides that if an employment standards officer believes that a person has contravened a provision of that Act, the officer may issue a notice to the person setting out the officer’s belief and specifying the amount of the pe...
An employee’s employment contract may entitle an employee to paid time off to get the vaccine, or to paid sick leave, which the employee might be able to utilize to get the vaccine. In the absence of any contractual right to time off, Ontario’s Employment Standards Act, 2000 (ESA) do...
1 If passed in its current form, Bill 88 would enact the new Digital Platform Workers’ Rights Act, 2022 (DPWRA), and make amendments to the Employment Standards Act, 2000 (ESA), the Fair Access to Regulation Professions and Compulsory Trades Act, 2006 (FARPCTA), and ...
Companies registered in Canada must adhere to fair trade practices under labour laws to ensure minimum wages and workplace safety under frameworks like the Employment Standards Act. Environmental Regulations The Canadian Environmental Protection Act governs the environmental regulations for company registration...
Bill 2 amends British Columbia’s Employment Standards Act (ESA) to provide eligible workers in British Columbia a new statutory holiday, the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, to be observed annually on September 30th. As noted by the BC government, this holiday commemorates the history ...
among them Civic Holiday, Simcoe Day, and Colonel By Day. It is not a public holiday in this province. So, while some employers in Ontario give their employees a holiday on the first Monday in August, they are not required to do so under Ontario’sEmployment Standards Act, 2000(ESA). ...
under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). Tipped employees can receive $2.13 an hour and youths under 20 years of age can receive a probationary wage of $4.25 an hour for their first 90 days of employment, according to the Department of Labor (DOL). State wage laws sometimes exceed fede...