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  • Founded Date March 14, 2019
  • Sectors Automotive
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Under the Employment Standards Act, 2000 (ESA), employers can need an employee 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 staff members to supply a certificate from a competent health professional (a note). A “qualified health practitioner” 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 optimum fines

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

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

Definition of employee

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

– performs work for an employer for salaries

– materials services to an employer for incomes

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

– is a homeworker

– was a worker

On March 21, 2024, the significance of “training” was broadened to consist of work carried out throughout a trial duration. A staff member now consists of a person who carries out work throughout a trial duration for an employer, if the skills being assessed throughout the trial duration are abilities utilized by the company’s employees or might be used by employees if there are no other workers. This suggests the hours worked throughout the trial duration need to be counted as work time. Find out more about what counts as work time.

Deductions from earnings

The ESA restricts companies from making deductions from earnings when the company had a money scarcity, lost home or had actually residential or commercial property taken and a person aside from the employee had access to the money or residential or commercial property.

On March 21, 2024, the ESA was modified to confirm that this consists of deductions from incomes in “dine and rush”, “gas and dash” and other comparable circumstances.

Payment of wages – direct deposit

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

Effective June 21, 2024, an extra requirement will be in place if the company wants to pay salaries by direct deposit: the account needs to be chosen by the staff member. This implies the employee needs to decide which account to use and the company can not limit a worker’s area by, for instance, needing the employee to use an account at a specific financial organization.

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 transferred. If an employer previously restricted an employee’s account choice – for example, by needing them to utilize an account at a particular financial 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 staff member can also notify their employer that they desire their wages transferred to a different account and, when that occurs, the employer should make the change.

Vacation pay arrangements

The ESA enables an employer to pay holiday pay to a staff member on every pay cheque as it collects or at any agreed-upon time, however only with the contract of the employee. Find out more about when to pay trip pay.

Effective June 21, 2024, the ESA is amended to clarify that the staff member needs to make a contract with the company in order for the employer to be able to pay holiday pay on every pay cheque or at an agreed-upon time. This verifies that such arrangements can not be spoken and must be made in writing (consisting of digitally), consistent with how the ministry implements the ESA.

Tips or other gratuities – approaches of payment

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

– money

– cheque

– direct deposit

If payment is by cash or cheque, the employee must be paid the ideas or other gratuities at the work environment or at some other location agreed to electronically or in composing by the worker.

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

The requirement that the worker select the account implies the staff member needs to choose which account to use, and the company can not restrict a worker’s choice by, for instance, 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 choose the account where their tips are to be deposited. If a company previously limited an employee’s account choice – for instance, by requiring them to utilize an account at a specific banks – it is the employer’s responsibility to validate the worker’s choice of their wanted account before they make the next payment after June 20, 2024. A staff member can likewise notify their company that they desire their pointers deposited to a various account and, when that takes place, the company needs to make the modification.

Tips sharing policy

The ESA permits employers, along with directors and investors of a company, to share in suggestions, if specified requirements are fulfilled.

Effective June 21, 2024, where a company has a policy about the employer, director or shareholder of the employer, job sharing in an idea swimming pool, the employer will be needed to post a copy of that policy in a clearly noticeable place in the work environment where it is most likely to come to the attention of workers.

The requirement to post a policy does not need an employer to develop a policy. It uses if a company has a written policy in place or if a company has an established practice of sharing in a tip pool that is consistently used (even if it’s not documented). If the company has an unwritten however recognized, consistently-applied practice in place, the company needs to put the policy in composing and post 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 true copy of the policy that is in place and plainly states that the employer or a director or investor job of the employer shares in the tip swimming pool.

Effective, June 21, 2024, employers will also be required to keep a copy of every suggestions sharing policy that is required to be posted for three years after the policy stops being in impact.

Job publishing requirements

On a date to be set by proclamation of the Lieutenant Governor, amendments will enter force that develop new requirements for employers associated with publicly marketed job postings.

Temporary help company and employer licensing

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

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

– Employers, potential companies and other recruiters are restricted from purposefully 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 rule that will use.

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

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

– exempting specific employers from the security requirement under defined conditions,.

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

The ministry’s licensing web page has actually been upgraded to reflect these modifications. Please check out that website for information.