14 years old establishments such as offices, stores, arenas,

and restaurant serving areas

15 years old most factories, restaurant kitchens, automotive
service garages, produce and meat prep or shipping and
receiving areas in grocery stores, laundries, and warehouses.
16 years old - construction, logging operations, surface mines,
mining plants
18 years old underground mining or a working face or
surface mine, window cleaning
*14 17 years cannot work during school hours unless
excused from school attendance

Entitled to minimum wage based on age and occupation:

$10.25 General Minimum Wage applies to most employees
who work more than 28 hours per week when school is in
session
$9.60 Student Minimum Wage - applies to students under
18 years of age who work less than 28 hours per week and
work during school holidays
$8.90 - Liquor Servers must be legal age to serve alcohol
18 years or older
$11.28 Homeworkers - are employees who do paid work in
their own homes. For example, they may sew clothes for a
clothing manufacturer, answer telephone calls for a call
centre, or write software for a high-tech company. Note that
students of any age (including students under the age
of 18 years) who are employed as homeworkers must
be paid the homeworker's minimum wage.

Exceptions:
In training for certain occupation
Under a work experience program/ school
board
Under a program through college or university
Employed to supervise or instruct children
NOTE: Tips and gratuities are not considered
wages

Entitled 30 minute eating break (or 2

15 min breaks if agreed upon)

Anything more will be based on

employer discretion and/ or
employment contract

For studentsyou are entitled to be

paid ONLY for the amount of time you
work when you get called in

Entitled to 1.5 times regular rate of pay (or

lieu time if employer agrees) for every
hour working more than 44 hours per
week.
Exceptions:
Installing/ maintaining pools
Landscape gardening
Growing, transporting, and laying sod
Instructing or supervising children

Entitled to 9 public holidays:

New Years Day
Family Day
Good Friday
Victoria Day
Canada Day
Labour Day
Thanksgiving Day
Christmas Day
Boxing Day
NOTE: Some work locations do not close down
for the holiday so SOMEONE needs to work

Entitled only if
work all of your last regularly scheduled
shift before or first regularly scheduled
shift after the public holiday
work their entire shift on the public
holiday if they agreed to or were required
to
* unless reasonable cause (not in persons
control)

Exceptions:
Installing/ maintaining pools
Landscape gardening
Growing, transporting, and laying sod
Instructing or supervising children

Public Holiday Pay = Regular Wages +

Vacation Pay (last four weeks BEFORE
the day) divided by 20
Work Holiday Pay = paid regular wage
plus day off with public holiday pay
Work Holiday = paid time and a half
(no substitute day off)

Only if agreed upon

Employee should ask before starting
any job
Employer cannot deduct (even if
employee agree)
Cash shortage if more than one person
assigned to register
Faulty work

Employer should keep a detailed record

(Hours worked, Wage, Deduction(s)
Your Pay Stub should indicate pay
period, rate of pay, gross and net
amount of wages, deductions and
reasons
There should be an established
recurring pay period and pay day

When reviewing the pay statement

template, please consider the following
legend:
1 Employee information
2 Pay period information
3 Rate and hours information
4 Gross earnings
5 Statutory deductions
6 Net pay

Entitled to 2 weeks of vacation pay after each 12

months of employment, starting on date of hired
If vacation year entitlement does not start on
anniversary date, then the vacation pay is prorated.
Vacation pay=4% (or more) of employees gross
wages earned in the period for which the vacation is
being given
Vacation pay (and any wages due) are expected no
later than 7 days after employment ends or what
would have been their next regular pay (whichever
is later)

Work is retail business (sales, manager,

security or janitorial) - have the right under
ESA to refuse to work on public holidays
Retail workers hired BEFORE Sept 4, 2001
right to refuse to work on Sundays
Retail workers hired AFTER Sept 4, 2001
do not have the right to refuse work on
Sundays except in certain circumstances for
reasons of religious belief or observance

Cannot refuse if work is

Selling prepared meals
Renting living accommodations
Providing educational recreational, or
amusement services to the public
Selling goods and services that are
secondary to businesses above

3 months to one year less one day = one

weeks notice
One year to 3 years = two weeks notice
After 3 years = one weeks notice for every year
worked (maximum 8 weeks)
(temporarily laid off does not equal termination)
If employee has been with an employer for at
least 5 years, MAY be entitled to receive
severance pay upon termination of employment

Employees cannot be penalized in any

way for
Asking the employer to comply with ESA
Asking questions about your rights under ESA
Filing a complaint under ESA
Exercising or trying to exercise a right under the ESA
Giving information to an employment standards officer
Taking or planning a leave: personal emergency leave, family
medical leave, reservist leave, parental leave or pregnancy
leave
Refusing to take a lie detector test

YOUR Rights

The Right to Know Education and information

The Right to Participate - Training, voicing

concerns

The Right to Refuse If work is deemed un safe