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Your Guide to The Employment Standards Act
This guide is a hassle-free source of details about crucial sections of the ESA. It is for your details and help only. It is not a legal file. If you require information or specific language, please refer to the ESA itself and its regulations.
This guide should not be utilized as or thought about legal recommendations. You might have higher rights under a work agreement, collective agreement, the typical law or other legislation. If you’re uncertain about anything in this guide, please talk with a legal representative.
Topics covered by the ESA?
These include:
benefit plans
bereavement leave
kid death leave
crime-related child disappearance leave
critical health problem leave
stated emergency leave
domestic or sexual violence leave
the employment requirements poster: distribution requirements
equivalent pay for equivalent work
household caregiver leave
household medical leave
household duty leave
submitting a claim
hours of work, and rest periods
contagious disease emergency leave
licensing – temporary help companies and recruiters
lie detector tests
base pay
non-compete contracts
organ donor leave
overtime pay
payment of incomes
pregnancy and parental leave
public holidays
reservist leave
severance of employment
ill leave
momentary assistance agencies
termination of employment and short-lived layoffs
pointers or gratuities
trip.
written policy on detaching from work.
composed policy on electronic monitoring of employees.
Reprisals are prohibited
Employers are forbidden from punishing employees in any method due to the fact that the worker exercised ESA rights.
Clients of short-term assistance firms are prohibited from punishing project employees in any method because the assignment worker exercised ESA rights.
Recruiters are prohibited from punishing potential employees who engage or use the recruiter’s services in any way for specific factors, consisting of asking the employer to adhere to the Act or employment making inquiries about whether an individual holds a licence as needed by the ESA.
Employers, customers of short-lived aid firms and recruiters who commit a reprisal can be:
– bought to compensate the staff member, assignment staff member or potential employee.
– bought to reinstate the staff member or assignment worker (if the reprisal was committed by an employer or employment customer of a momentary assistance firm).
– bought to pay a charge.
– prosecuted.
Find out more about reprisals.
Greater right or advantage
If a provision in a work contract or another Act provides an employee a higher right or advantage than a minimum employment requirement under the ESA then that provision applies to the worker instead of the work requirement.
No waiving of rights
No staff member can concur to waive or quit their rights under the ESA (for example, the right to get overtime pay or public vacation pay). Any such arrangement is null and void.
Enforcement and compliance
Violations of the ESA can lead to enforcement action.
The type of enforcement action that can be taken depends upon which provision of the ESA was contravened. Examples consist of:
– an order to pay.
– a compliance order.
– a ticket.
– a notice of contravention with a monetary charge.
– an order to restore and/or compensate.
– prosecution.
Other workplace-related laws
The ESA contains only some of the guidelines impacting work in Ontario. Other provincial and federal legislation governs problems such as workplace health and security, human rights and labour relations.
Related Ontario laws consist of the:
Occupational Health and Safety Act.
Workplace Safety and Insurance Act, 1997.
Labour Relations Act, 1995.
Pay Equity Act.
Human Rights Code.
To find out more about other Ontario laws, contact ServiceOntario:
– Tel: 416-326-1234 (in Toronto).
– Toll-free: 1-800-267-8097 (in the rest of Ontario).
– online at ServiceOntario.ca.
Federal laws affecting offices include statutes on income tax, employment insurance and the Canada Pension.
For more details about federal laws, call the Government of Canada details line at 1-800-622-6232.
Who is not covered by the ESA?
Most workers and employers in Ontario are covered by the ESA. However, employment the ESA does not apply to some people and individuals or companies they work for, such as:
– employees and employers in sectors that fall under federal work law jurisdiction, such as airline companies, banks, the federal civil service, post workplaces, radio and employment tv stations and inter-provincial railways.
– individuals working under a program approved by a college of applied arts and technology or university.
– people working under a program that is approved by a profession college signed up under the Ontario Career Colleges Act, employment 2005.
– secondary school trainees who work under a work experience program licensed by the school board that operates the school in which the trainee is registered.
– people who do community participation under the Ontario Works Act, 1997.
– police officers (except for the lie detectors provisions of the ESA, which do use).
– prisoners taking part in work or rehab programs, or individuals who work as part of a sentence or order of a court.
– people who hold political, judicial, employment spiritual or chosen trade union offices.
– major junior ice hockey gamers who fulfill particular conditions associated with scholarships.
– people who satisfy the definition of service expert or info innovation consultant under the ESA if certain conditions are met.
For a total listing of other individuals not governed by the ESA, please check the ESA and its regulations.
Employee misclassification
Employers are restricted from misclassifying employees as independent professionals, interns, volunteers or employment any other type of worker not covered by the ESA.
Find out more about worker misclassification.
Additional resources
In addition to this guide, the Ministry of Labour, Immigration, Training and Skills Development (MLITSD) has extra resources offered to help you:
– The Employment Standards Act Policy and Interpretation Manual is the primary referral source for the policies of the Director of Employment Standards appreciating the interpretation, administration and enforcement of the ESA.
– Staff at the Employment Standards Information Centre are readily available to address your questions about the ESA. Information is readily available in lots of languages. You can reach the info centre from Monday to Friday, 8:30 a.m.