1Jennifer McKenna, May 2010/Updated May 2012

Employment Standards, BC

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What do we know about the Employment Standards Act

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What is the Employment Standards Act

Smallest requirements of rules for at work

For employer For employee

What Workers are Covered by the Act? Workers Covered Domestic Temporary Foreign Salary Hourly

Workers Not Covered Union job Federal employment

laws e.g. Transportation Rail, Pilots

What’s Covered?

Minimum Wage

Minimum Daily Pay

Meal Breaks

Payday & Payroll

Overtime

Averaging Agreements

What’s Covered? con’tUniforms & Special Clothing

Deductions

Statutory Holidays

Employing Youth

Severance Pay

Vacation

Leave from Work

Resolving Disputes

Minimum Wage Most Employees $10.25 per Hour Employees paid

hourly, salary, commission or other

Tips are not wages

Not Covered Live-in, residential

and farm workers different

Minimum Wage in Canada

Minimum Daily Pay 2 hours for reporting

to work Scheduled 8 hours

must be paid 4 hours Out of employers

control still 2 hours or length of actual work

Reporting when unfit to work = pay for actual time worked

Non-compliance to WCB safety, can be sent home, pay=only time worked

Meal Breaks 30 minute break for 5 hours work in a

row Required to work during break = Pay Coffee Breaks not a requirement

Minimum Wage Resources Ontario http://www.labour.gov.on.ca/info/minimumwage/

PEI http://www.gov.pe.ca/sss/index.php3?number=1025372

Alberta http://employment.alberta.ca/SFW/998.html

Manitoba http://news.gov.mb.ca/news/index.html?archive=2009-9-01&item=6816

New Brunswick http://www.gnb.ca/0308/FactSheets/sheet8.pdf

Newfoundland Labrador http://www.releases.gov.nl.ca/releases/2009/hrle/1222n01.htm

Nova Scotia http://www.gov.ns.ca/lwd/employmentrights/minimumwagefaq.asp

Quebec http://www.gouv.qc.ca/portail/quebec/pgs/commun/actualites/actualite/une/actualites_100429_salaireminimum/?lang=en

Saskatchewan http://www.aeel.gov.sk.ca/labour-standards-tips-for-employers

NWT, Nunavut, Yukon http://canadaonline.about.com/library/bl/blminwage.htm

Resources BC

http://www.bclaws.ca/EPLibraries/bclaws_new/document/LOC/freeside/--%20E%20--/Employment%20Standards%20Act%20RSBC%201996%20c.%20113/00_96113_01.xml