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Employment Standards, BC

1. Employment Standards, BC. Jennifer McKenna, May 2010/Updated May 2012. Use White board to record. What do we know about the Employment Standards Act. What is the Employment Standards Act. Smallest requirements of rules for at work For employer For employee.

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Employment Standards, BC

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  1. 1 Employment Standards, BC • Jennifer McKenna, May 2010/Updated May 2012

  2. Use White board to record What do we know about the Employment Standards Act

  3. What is the Employment Standards Act • Smallest requirements of rules for at work • For employer • For employee

  4. What Workers are Covered by the Act? • Workers Not Covered • Union job • Federal employment laws e.g. Transportation Rail, Pilots • Workers Covered • Domestic • Temporary Foreign • Salary • Hourly

  5. Minimum Wage Payday & Payroll Minimum Daily Pay Overtime Meal Breaks Averaging Agreements What’s Covered?

  6. Uniforms & Special Clothing Severance Pay Deductions Vacation Statutory Holidays Leave from Work Employing Youth Resolving Disputes What’s Covered? con’t

  7. Minimum Wage • Not Covered • Live-in, residential and farm workers different • Most Employees • $10.25 per Hour • Employees paid hourly, salary, commission or other • Tips are not wages

  8. Minimum Wage in Canada

  9. Minimum Daily Pay • Reporting when unfit to work = pay for actual time worked • Non-compliance to WCB safety, can be sent home, pay=only time worked • 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

  10. Meal Breaks • 30 minute break for 5 hours work in a row • Required to work during break = Pay • Coffee Breaks not a requirement

  11. 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

  12. 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

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