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Under the Employment Standards Act, 2000 (ESA), companies can need an employee to offer evidence sensible in the circumstances that they are entitled to sick leave under the ESA.

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

ESA maximum fines

A prosecution might be commenced under Part III of the Provincial Offences Act where an individual is believed to have committed an offence under the ESA. If founded guilty, an individual might be based on a fine or a term of imprisonment or both.

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

Definition of employee

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

– carries out work for a company for wages

– materials services to a company for salaries

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

– is a homeworker

– was a worker

On March 21, 2024, the significance of “training” was expanded to include work carried out during a trial duration. A worker now consists of an individual who performs work during a trial period for an employer, if the abilities being evaluated throughout the trial period are abilities used by the employer’s employees or could be used by employees if there are no other staff members. This suggests the hours worked during the trial duration must be counted as work time. Find out more about what counts as work time.

Deductions from salaries

The ESA forbids companies from making reductions from earnings when the employer had a money shortage, lost home or had property taken and an individual other than the worker had access to the cash or home.

On March 21, 2024, the ESA was changed to verify that this includes deductions from earnings in “dine and dash”, “gas and dash” and other comparable scenarios.

Payment of salaries – direct deposit

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

Effective June 21, 2024, an extra requirement will be in place if the company wishes to pay incomes by direct deposit: the account must be selected by the staff member. This implies the employee must decide which account to use and the company can not restrict an employee’s area by, for instance, requiring the employee to utilize an account at a specific monetary organization.

For payments that are to be made after June 20, 2024, a staff member has the right to select the account where their incomes are to be deposited. If an employer formerly restricted a worker’s account selection – for example, by requiring them to use an account at a particular monetary organization – it is the company’s obligation to validate the worker’s choice of their preferred account before they make the next payment after June 20, 2024. An employee can also inform their employer that they want their earnings transferred to a different account and, when that happens, the employer needs to make the modification.

Vacation pay contracts

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

Effective June 21, 2024, employment the ESA is changed to clarify that the worker needs to make a contract with the company in order for the employer to be able to pay vacation pay on every pay cheque or at an agreed-upon time. This confirms that such agreements can not be verbal and should be made in writing (including digitally), consistent with how the ministry implements the ESA.

Tips or other gratuities – approaches of payment

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

– money

– cheque

– direct deposit

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

If payment is made by direct deposit, the account should be selected by the worker and be in the employee’s name. Nobody besides the employee can have access to the account, unless the worker has actually licensed it.

The requirement that the employee choose the account suggests the worker needs to choose which to utilize, and the employer can not limit a staff member’s selection by, for employment instance, needing the staff member to utilize an account at a specific banks.

For payments that are to be made after June 20, 2024, an employee deserves to choose the account where their ideas are to be transferred. If a company formerly restricted a worker’s account selection – for instance, by requiring them to utilize an account at a particular banks – it is the employer’s duty to verify the employee’s selection of their desired account before they make the next payment after June 20, 2024. A staff member can also alert their company that they desire their ideas transferred to a different account and, when that takes place, the employer should make the modification.

Tips sharing policy

The ESA enables companies, in addition to directors and employment investors of an employer, to share in tips, if specified criteria are met.

Effective June 21, 2024, where an employer has a policy about the employer, director or shareholder of the employer, sharing in a suggestion swimming pool, the company will be needed to post 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 need a company to establish a policy. It uses if a company has a written policy in location or if a company has a recognized practice of sharing in a pointer swimming pool that is regularly used (even if it’s not made a note of). If the employer has an unwritten but recognized, consistently-applied practice in location, the company must put the policy in writing 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 file is a real copy of the policy that is in location and plainly states that the employer or a director employment or shareholder of the employer shares in the tip 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 pronouncement of the Lieutenant Governor, amendments will enter force that develop new requirements for companies connected to openly advertised task posts.

Temporary help agency and employer licensing

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

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

– Employers, prospective companies and other recruiters are forbidden from knowingly engaging or utilizing 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 guideline that will use.

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

– Adding a surety bond as a new acceptable form of security for all candidates,.

– excusing particular employers from the security requirement under defined 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 website for details.

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