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Under the Employment Standards Act, 2000 (ESA), companies can need a worker to offer proof reasonable in the situations that they are entitled to authorized leave under the ESA.

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

ESA optimum fines

A prosecution might be begun under Part III of the Provincial Offences Act where a person is thought to have actually devoted an offense under the ESA. If founded guilty, a person could be based on a fine or a regard to imprisonment or both.

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

Definition of worker

The Employment Standards Act (ESA) defines an employee to include a person who:

– performs work for a company for earnings

– products services to an employer for salaries

– receives training from an employer, if the skill they’re being trained on is a skill utilized by the company’s workers

– is a homeworker

– was a staff member

On March 21, 2024, the meaning of “training” was broadened to include work carried out during a trial duration. An employee now includes a person who performs work throughout a trial duration for a company, if the skills being examined throughout the trial duration are skills utilized by the employer’s employees or employment might be utilized by workers if there are no other workers. This suggests the hours worked during the trial duration should be counted as work time. Find out more about what counts as work time.

Deductions from salaries

The ESA prohibits employers from making deductions from salaries when the company had a cash scarcity, lost home or had actually residential or commercial property stolen and a person aside from the employee had access to the cash or home.

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

Payment of earnings – direct deposit

The ESA needs companies to pay wages by money, cheque or employment direct deposit. If the incomes are paid by direct deposit, the account needs to be in the employee’s name and nobody other than the employee can have access to the account, unless the staff member has actually licensed it.

Effective June 21, 2024, an additional requirement will remain in place if the company wishes to pay incomes by direct deposit: the account must be picked by the worker. This suggests the employee should choose which account to utilize and the company can not limit an employee’s area by, for instance, needing the staff member to utilize an account at a specific financial institution.

For payments that are to be made after June 20, 2024, a worker has the right to choose the account where their incomes are to be deposited. If an employer previously restricted an employee’s account choice – for example, by needing them to utilize an account at a particular banks – it is the company’s duty to verify the employee’s choice of their wanted account before they make the next payment after June 20, 2024. A worker can also notify their employer that they want their incomes deposited to a different account and, employment when that happens, the company needs to make the change.

Vacation pay agreements

The ESA allows an employer to pay trip pay to an employee on every pay cheque as it builds up or at any agreed-upon time, but just with the arrangement of the worker. Discover more about when to pay getaway pay.

Effective June 21, 2024, the ESA is modified to clarify that the staff member must make a contract with the employer in order for the company to be able to pay vacation pay on every pay cheque or at an agreed-upon time. This confirms that such arrangements can not be verbal and should be made in composing (including electronically), consistent with how the ministry imposes the ESA.

Tips or other gratuities – techniques of payment

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

– cash

– cheque

– direct deposit

If payment is by money or cheque, the employee should be paid the pointers or other gratuities at the work environment or at some other location concurred to electronically or in writing by the staff member.

If payment is made by direct deposit, the account should be picked by the worker and remain in the name. Nobody besides the staff member can have access to the account, unless the worker has actually licensed it.

The requirement that the worker choose the account suggests the worker should choose which account to use, and the company can not limit a worker’s choice by, for example, needing the worker to use an account at a particular banks.

For payments that are to be made after June 20, 2024, an employee can select the account where their tips are to be transferred. If an employer formerly restricted a worker’s account selection – for instance, by needing them to utilize an account at a specific monetary organization – it is the company’s obligation to verify the worker’s selection of their preferred account before they make the next payment after June 20, 2024. A worker can likewise inform their employer that they want their tips transferred to a different account and, when that takes place, the company must make the modification.

Tips sharing policy

The ESA permits employers, employment in addition to directors and investors of an employer, to share in ideas, if specified criteria are satisfied.

Effective June 21, 2024, where a company has a policy about the company, director or investor of the employer, sharing in a tip swimming pool, the employer will be required to publish a copy of that policy in a plainly noticeable location in the office where it is most likely to come to the attention of staff members.

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 location or if a company has a recognized practice of sharing in a pointer swimming pool that is regularly applied (even if it’s not written down). If the company has an unwritten but established, consistently-applied practice in location, the company must put the policy in composing and publish a copy of the policy.

The ESA does not specify the details that should appear in the policy, as long as the published document is a true copy of the policy that remains in place and plainly states that the company or a director or shareholder of the company shares in the suggestion pool.

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

Job posting requirements

On a date to be set by proclamation of the Lieutenant Governor, modifications will come into force that establish brand-new requirements for employers related to openly advertised task postings.

Temporary help firm and employment employer licensing

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

– Temporary aid firms are required to hold a licence to operate.Clients are forbidden from intentionally engaging or using the services of a short-lived assistance agency unless the firm holds a licence. (Find out more about the relationship between temporary aid firms and customers.).

– Employers, prospective employers and other recruiters are prohibited from purposefully engaging or using the services of any recruiter that does not hold a licence.

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

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

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

– excusing specific recruiters from the security requirement under specified conditions,.

– altering the application charge and security requirements for entities using both for a short-term help agency and a recruiter licence.

The ministry’s licensing webpage has been upgraded to show these changes. Please visit that webpage for details.

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