Employment Law

Overtime a body of law or legislation has developed governing employer/employee relations and right of employees and employers in the workplace subsequently amended by the employment relations Acts of 1999 and 2003, provides arrange of contractual rights for employees including entitlement to an itemised pay statement.

The Canada Labour Code is a comprehensive set of laws covering various labour issues such as industrial and union relations, employment standards, and workplace health and safety. The code however, only applies to industries that are under federal governmental jurisdiction – such as banks, airports, broadcasting, telecommunications, transportation, and navigation. Part II of the code identifies specific roles for employers and employees to recognize, resolve, and prevent any work-related hazards and safety issues. The code gives employees several rights to ensure their safety including the right to be informed of any foreseeable hazards, the right to correct any health and safety concerns,

All Learners need to know that employers and employees have a range of statutory responsibilities and rights under Employment Law and that employment can be affected by other legislation as well. 1.1 Contracts of Employment1

The Act also requires employees not to interfere with or misuse anything provided to protect their health, safety or welfare in compliance with the Act.

Also it tells me what will happen if one of the parties fail to respect them.

The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (herein referred to as the Charter) as well as the Canadian Human Rights Act stipulates that everyone has the right not to be discriminated against. Moreover, the Human Rights Commission defines discrimination as ‘an action or a decision that treats a person or a group negatively for reasons such as their race, age or disability.’ Furthermore, the Charter states:

Although Equalities and Health and safety have meaning in other areas of life... both bodies of law feature measures relating to employment to

The United States has a plethora of labor laws in place to help clarify the rights of workers, employers, and even labor unions. Federal laws, such as the Fair Labor Standards Act, the National Labor Relations Act, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Occupational Safety and Health Act helped form the working standards that we still use in today’s society. In the scope of minimum wage policy, The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) helped pioneer the labor force in the US. The FLSA was the first federal statute (that was successfully passed) to introduce the forty-hour workweek, "time-and-a-half" for overtime work, the regulation of child labor, and set a national minimum wage for the first time. Like most federal statutes, adjustments needed to be made over its lifetime.

In general, these laws found in chapter 1 of our text are made to enforce and ensure proper wage, safety, and work hours for all individuals, without any form of discrimination, such as the FLSA act of 1938 and the Equal Pay Act of 1963 along with others found in this lesson. They also allow for medical issues or disabilities within the family such as the FMLA of 1993. The four groups can be categorized as income continuity, safety, pay discrimination and work hours. Others may be accommodating families with physical and mental disabilities and other wage laws. If I were to decide between the groups which is most important I would have to say that they would all be equally important

Employers have legal obligations, when drawing up a job description. The law states that employers must not discriminate against a persons, age, race, sex, religion or disability.

Human Rights Legislation: This legislation forbids discrimination in both employment and the “provision of goods and services” across Canada. Section 8 of the

If you own a business that has employees (other than yourself), you may, at some point, need the help of a Fair Labor Standards attorney. The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), enacted in 1938, established minimum wage, overtime pay, recordkeeping and child labor standards affecting full- and part-time workers in both the private and public sectors. As an employer, you must adhere to the provisions of the FLSA or face these legal or criminal actions that only an experienced Fair Labor Standards attorney can assist you with:

The FLSA regulates this to ensure that the employers are paying fair wages to their employee’s. FLSA also regulates hours worked by an employee to ensure that an employer is paying time and one half for all hours worked past forty in a work week. Minimum wages are different in some states. Many states also have state minimum wage laws.

Q1 – Understand the purpose of employment regulation and the way it is enforced in practice.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt enacted the FLSA on June 25, 1938. It was signed in as a federal labor law to provide criteria for governing general labor practices such as overtime, minimum wages, child labor protections and equal pay. The Fair Labor Standards Act is a long and extensive document in and of itself. It defines many exceptions and exemptions. For purposes of this paper the portion of the FLSA that will be concentrated on is the difference between exempt and non-exempt employees.