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  • Founded Date June 14, 1948
  • Sectors Health Care
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Under the Employment Standards Act, 2000 (ESA), companies can need a staff member to provide evidence affordable in the situations that they are entitled to authorized leave under the ESA.

Effective October 28, 2024, companies can not require staff members to supply a certificate from a certified health professional (a medical note). A “qualified health professional” is a person who is certified to practice as a doctor, registered nurse or psychologist under the laws of the jurisdiction in which care or treatment is offered to the worker.

ESA maximum fines

A prosecution might be commenced under Part III of the Provincial Offences Act where a person is believed to have devoted an offence under the ESA. If convicted, a person could be subject to a fine or a term of jail time or both.

As of October 28, 2024, the maximum fine for people convicted of contravening the ESA has increased to $100,000 (up from $50,000).

Definition of staff member

The Employment Standards Act (ESA) defines a staff member to consist of an individual who:

– carries out work for an employer for wages

– products services to an employer for wages

– gets training from a company, if the skill they’re being trained on is an ability used by the employer’s staff members

– is a homeworker

– was an employee

On March 21, 2024, the significance of “training” was broadened to consist of work carried out throughout a trial period. An employee now consists of an individual who carries out work during a trial period for an employer, if the skills being evaluated during the trial duration are skills utilized by the employer’s employees or could be utilized by employees if there are no other workers. This suggests the hours worked throughout the trial period need to be counted as work time. Learn more about what counts as work time.

Deductions from earnings

The ESA restricts companies from making deductions from wages when the employer had a money shortage, lost residential or commercial property or had residential or commercial property taken and a person besides the employee had access to the cash or residential or commercial property.

On March 21, 2024, the ESA was amended to confirm that this includes reductions from earnings in “dine and dash”, “gas and dash” and other similar circumstances.

Payment of earnings – direct deposit

The ESA needs employers to pay wages by cash, cheque or direct deposit. If the earnings are paid by direct deposit, the account needs to remain in the employee’s name and nobody besides the worker can have access to the account, unless the employee has actually licensed it.

Effective June 21, 2024, an extra requirement will remain in location if the employer wishes to pay salaries by direct deposit: the account must be selected by the staff member. This indicates the employee should decide which account to use and the company can not restrict a worker’s section by, for instance, requiring the employee to use an account at a specific banks.

For payments that are to be made after June 20, 2024, a staff member deserves to select the account where their salaries are to be deposited. If a company formerly restricted a worker’s account selection – for instance, by requiring them to utilize an account at a specific banks – it is the company’s responsibility to validate the staff member’s selection of their desired account before they make the next payment after June 20, 2024. An employee can likewise inform their company that they want their earnings transferred to a various account and, when that takes place, the employer should make the modification.

Vacation pay contracts

The ESA allows an employer to pay holiday pay to a worker on every pay cheque as it collects or at any agreed-upon time, however just with the arrangement of the staff member. Discover more about when to pay holiday pay.

Effective June 21, 2024, the ESA is changed to clarify that the worker needs to make an arrangement with the employer in order for the company to be able to pay holiday pay on every pay cheque or at an agreed-upon time. This validates that such arrangements can not be verbal and must be made in writing (consisting of electronically), consistent with how the ministry implements the ESA.

Tips or other gratuities – methods of payment

Beginning June 21, 2024, companies will be required to pay tips or other gratuities by either:

– money

– cheque

– direct deposit

If payment is by cash or cheque, the staff member must be paid the ideas or other gratuities at the workplace or at some other location agreed to electronically or in writing by the employee.

If payment is made by direct deposit, the account needs to be selected by the staff member and be in the worker’s name. Nobody other than the worker can have access to the account, unless the worker has licensed it.

The requirement that the staff member select the account means the worker should choose which account to utilize, and the employer can not limit a staff member’s selection by, for instance, needing the staff member to use an account at a specific financial organization.

For payments that are to be made after June 20, 2024, a staff member has the right to pick the account where their suggestions are to be transferred. If an employer previously restricted a staff member’s account selection – for instance, by requiring them to use an account at a particular monetary institution – it is the employer’s duty to validate the worker’s choice of their preferred account before they make the next payment after June 20, 2024. A worker can also alert their employer that they want their pointers transferred to a various account and, when that happens, the company should make the modification.

Tips sharing policy

The ESA allows employers, as well as directors and shareholders of an employer, to share in suggestions, if specified criteria are satisfied.

Effective June 21, 2024, where an employer has a policy about the company, director or investor of the employer, sharing in a suggestion swimming pool, the company will be needed to publish a copy of that policy in a clearly noticeable place in the workplace where it is likely to come to the attention of employees.

The requirement to post a policy does not require a company to develop a policy. It uses if an employer has a written policy in place or if a company has an established practice of sharing in a tip pool that is regularly applied (even if it’s not documented). If the company has an unwritten but established, consistently-applied practice in place, the employer must put the policy in composing and publish a copy of the policy.

The ESA does not define the details that must appear in the policy, as long as the posted document is a real copy of the policy that remains in location and referall.us plainly states that the employer or a director or investor of the company shares in the suggestion swimming pool.

Effective, June 21, 2024, companies will likewise be needed to keep a copy of every tips sharing policy that is needed to be posted for 3 years after the policy stops being in impact.

Job posting requirements

On a date to be set by proclamation of the Lieutenant Governor, changes will come into force that develop new requirements for to publicly advertised job posts.

Temporary help firm and recruiter licensing

Beginning on July 1, 2024 under the Employment Standards Act, 2000 (ESA):

– Temporary assistance agencies are needed to hold a licence to operate.Clients are forbidden from knowingly engaging or using the services of a short-lived assistance firm unless the firm holds a licence. (Learn more about the relationship in between short-term aid firms and clients.).

– Employers, potential employers and other employers are prohibited from knowingly engaging or using the services of any employer that does not hold a licence.

Where applications are made before July 1, 2024 and a choice is pending, there is a transitional rule that will use.

On April 29, 2024, O. Reg. 99/23 – Licensing Temporary Help Agencies and Recruiters was changed. The modifications consist of:

– Adding a surety bond as a brand-new appropriate kind of security for all candidates,.

– exempting certain employers from the security requirement under specified conditions,.

– changing the application charge and security requirements for entities using both for a short-lived help agency and an employer licence.

The ministry’s licensing website has actually been updated to reflect these changes. Please visit that web page for details.

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