1. 1 Jennifer McKenna, May 2010/Updated May 2012 Employment Standards, BC

2. 2 What do we know about the Employment Standards Act Use White board to record

3. What is the Employment Standards Act  Smallest requirements of rules for at work  For employer  For employee

4. What Workers are Covered by the Act?  Workers Covered  Domestic  Temporary Foreign  Salary  Hourly Workers Not Covered  Union job  Federal employment laws e.g. Transportation Rail, Pilots

5. What’s Covered? Minimum Wage Minimum Daily Pay Meal Breaks Payday & Payroll Overtime Averaging Agreements

6. What’s Covered? con’t Uniforms & Special Clothing Deductions Statutory Holidays Employing Youth Severance Pay Vacation Leave from Work Resolving Disputes

7. Minimum Wage  Most Employees  $10.25 per Hour  Employees paid hourly, salary, commission or other  Tips are not wages Not Covered  Live-in, residential and farm workers different

8. Minimum Wage in Canada

9. Minimum Daily Pay  2 hours for reporting to work  Scheduled 8 hours must be paid 4 hours  Out of employers control still 2 hours or length of actual work  Reporting when unfit to work = pay for actual time worked  Non-compliance to WCB safety, can be sent home, pay=only time worked

10. Meal Breaks  30 minute break for 5 hours work in a row  Required to work during break = Pay  Coffee Breaks not a requirement

11. Minimum Wage Resources  Ontario http://www.labour.gov.on.ca/info/minimumwage/http://www.labour.gov.on.ca/info/minimumwage/  PEI http://www.gov.pe.ca/sss/index.php3?number=1025372http://www.gov.pe.ca/sss/index.php3?number=1025372  Alberta http://employment.alberta.ca/SFW/998.htmlhttp://employment.alberta.ca/SFW/998.html  Manitoba http://news.gov.mb.ca/news/index.html?archive=2009-9-01&item=6816http://news.gov.mb.ca/news/index.html?archive=2009-9-01&item=6816  New Brunswick http://www.gnb.ca/0308/FactSheets/sheet8.pdfhttp://www.gnb.ca/0308/FactSheets/sheet8.pdf  Newfoundland Labrador http://www.releases.gov.nl.ca/releases/2009/hrle/1222n01.htmhttp://www.releases.gov.nl.ca/releases/2009/hrle/1222n01.htm  Nova Scotia http://www.gov.ns.ca/lwd/employmentrights/minimumwagefaq.asphttp://www.gov.ns.ca/lwd/employmentrights/minimumwagefaq.asp  Quebec http://www.gouv.qc.ca/portail/quebec/pgs/commun/actualites/actualite/une/actualites_100429_salairemi nimum/?lang=en http://www.gouv.qc.ca/portail/quebec/pgs/commun/actualites/actualite/une/actualites_100429_salairemi nimum/?lang=en  Saskatchewan http://www.aeel.gov.sk.ca/labour-standards-tips-for-employershttp://www.aeel.gov.sk.ca/labour-standards-tips-for-employers  NWT, Nunavut, Yukon http://canadaonline.about.com/library/bl/blminwage.htmhttp://canadaonline.about.com/library/bl/blminwage.htm

12. Resources  BC http://www.bclaws.ca/EPLibraries/bcl aws_new/document/LOC/freeside/-- %20E%20-- /Employment%20Standards%20Act %20RSBC%201996%20c.%20113/0 0_96113_01.xml httpww.bclaws.ca/EPLibraries/bcl aws_new/document/LOC/freeside/-- %20E%20-- /Employment%20Standards%20Act %20RSBC%201996%20c.%2011