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Under the Employment Standards Act, 2000 (ESA), employers can need a staff member to provide proof reasonable in the scenarios that they are entitled to authorized leave under the ESA.

Effective October 28, 2024, companies can not require employees to offer a certificate from a certified health specialist (a medical note). A “certified health specialist” is an individual who is qualified to practice as a physician, signed up nurse or psychologist under the laws of the jurisdiction in which care or treatment is provided to the employee.

ESA maximum fines

A prosecution may be begun under Part III of the Provincial Offences Act where an individual is believed to have devoted an offence under the ESA. If founded guilty, a person could be subject to a fine or a term of jail time or employment both.

Since October 28, 2024, the optimum 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 an employee to consist of a person who:

– performs work for an employer for incomes

– products services to an employer for incomes

– receives training from an employer, if the skill they’re being trained on is an ability used by the company’s employees

– is a homeworker

– was a staff member

On March 21, 2024, the meaning of “training” was expanded to consist of work carried out during a trial duration. A worker now includes an individual who performs work during a trial duration for an employer, if the skills being examined during the trial period are skills used by the company’s workers or could be utilized by employees if there are no other workers. This implies 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 forbids companies from making deductions from earnings when the company had a cash scarcity, lost residential or commercial property or employment had actually home taken and a person aside from the staff member had access to the cash or property.

On March 21, 2024, the ESA was changed to validate that this consists of reductions from earnings in “dine and dash”, “gas and dash” and other similar circumstances.

Payment of incomes – direct deposit

The ESA needs companies to pay wages by money, cheque or direct deposit. If the earnings are paid by direct deposit, the account needs to remain in the staff member’s name and no one aside from the staff member can have access to the account, unless the worker has licensed it.

Effective June 21, 2024, an additional requirement will remain in location if the company desires to pay wages by direct deposit: the account must be selected by the worker. This means the worker must decide which account to use and the company can not restrict an employee’s section by, for instance, needing the staff member to utilize an account at a particular monetary institution.

For payments that are to be made after June 20, 2024, a worker deserves to choose the account where their salaries are to be deposited. If an employer formerly limited a worker’s account selection – for example, by needing them to use an account at a particular monetary organization – it is the employer’s duty to confirm the staff member’s selection of their wanted account before they make the next payment after June 20, 2024. A worker can also inform their employer that they want their incomes deposited to a different account and, when that happens, the company should make the modification.

Vacation pay agreements

The ESA enables a company to pay holiday pay to an employee on every pay cheque as it builds up or at any agreed-upon time, however only with the contract of the employee. Find out more about when to pay getaway pay.

Effective June 21, 2024, the ESA is amended to clarify that the staff member should make an agreement with the employer in order for the company to be able to pay trip pay on every pay cheque or at an agreed-upon time. This validates that such agreements can not be spoken and need to be made in composing (consisting of electronically), constant with how the ministry imposes the ESA.

Tips or other gratuities – methods of payment

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

– money

– cheque

– direct deposit

If payment is by money or cheque, the staff member needs to be paid the ideas or other gratuities at the workplace or at some other location accepted digitally or in writing by the employee.

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

The requirement that the staff member select the account suggests the staff member should choose which account to use, and the employer can not limit a staff member’s selection by, for example, needing the staff member to use an account at a particular monetary institution.

For payments that are to be made after June 20, 2024, an employee deserves to choose the account where their pointers are to be deposited. If a company previously restricted an employee’s account selection – for example, by needing them to utilize an account at a particular monetary institution – it is the employer’s responsibility to validate the worker’s selection 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 ideas deposited to a various account and, when that happens, the company must make the modification.

Tips sharing policy

The ESA enables companies, along with directors and investors of a company, to share in pointers, employment if defined requirements are fulfilled.

Effective June 21, 2024, where an employer has a policy about the company, director or investor of the employer, sharing in an idea pool, the company will be needed to publish a copy of that policy in a plainly visible location in the workplace where it is most likely to come to the attention of staff members.

The requirement to post a policy does not require an employer to develop a policy. It applies if a company has a written policy in location or if an employer has a recognized practice of sharing in an idea swimming pool that is consistently used (even if it’s not made a note of). If the company has an unwritten however established, consistently-applied practice in place, the employer must put the policy in writing and publish a copy of the policy.

The ESA does not define the details that needs to appear in the policy, as long as the published document is a true copy of the policy that is in place and clearly states that the company or a director or shareholder of the employer shares in the tip swimming pool.

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

Job publishing requirements

On a date to be set by proclamation of the Lieutenant Governor, amendments will enter force that establish brand-new requirements for employers related to job postings.

Temporary help firm and employer licensing

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

– Temporary help agencies are required to hold a licence to operate.Clients are restricted from knowingly engaging or utilizing the services of a short-lived aid agency unless the agency holds a licence. (Find out more about the relationship in between short-lived aid agencies and clients.).

– Employers, prospective companies and other employers are prohibited from knowingly engaging or utilizing 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 apply.

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

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

– excusing certain recruiters from the security requirement under defined conditions,.

– changing the application cost and security requirements for entities using both for a momentary assistance agency and a recruiter licence.

The ministry’s licensing web page has actually been updated to show these modifications. Please visit that web page for details.

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