Paid Vacation In Ontario

According to the Government of BC website, the Employment Standards Act is provincial legislation put in place to protect the rights and freedoms of BC workers and employers (2011). Furthermore, the Act itself exists to ensure that there are basic standards for employment throughout our province, as well as allowing both employees and employers to be protected by these standards in the case of a dispute (bclaws.ca, 1980). The act includes regulations which outline employee’s rights with regards to such things as minimum wage; overtime and vacation pay. It is imperative for human resources professionals to understand this Act - as it not only protects organizations legally, but it

For centuries, there has been a common relationship between employers and employees. Over the course of that time, the workplace and the jobs within it have evolved as new jobs were created, ways to execute tasks became more advanced and laws were enacted to put into place fair employment for those in the workforce. In 1938, congress would pass and President Roosevelt would sign the Wages and Hours Bill, more commonly known as the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (FLSA). This federal statute introduced a 44 hour, seven day work week, established the national minimum wage, guaranteed overtime pay in specific types of jobs at a rate of “time and a half”, and it defines oppressive child labor, which prohibits most employment of minors. The FLSA applies to those employees engaged in interstate commerce or in the production of goods for commerce, unless the employer can claim an exemption from coverage.

From the table, it is clear that the insurable earnings each year has increased over the past years, which may seem like an advantage. Although the earnings are increasing, the workers who receive the benefits are not always the ones that need it. This is because Canada’s EI eligibility for each location is not treated equally. For example, the workers in seasonal industries, mainly in Atlantic Canada, Quebec, and other rural areas generally qualify for EI. On the other hand, most workers in Ontario will not qualify for EI, regardless of losing their jobs (See fig. 4).

Americans should debate the costs and benefits of different ways to ensure workers have support during times of leave. We should do so with an understanding of how flexible and competitive work environment, this allows people to negotiate different ways of take-home pay and benefits. Then if the government believes it is necessary to create a mandate to help ensure that workers have enough paid time off, then that intervention should at least be targeted to those who need it the most. Like it was said before, this one-size-fits-all mandate will not work for

How will the new FLSA laws affect you? If you are making $47,476 a year or less, the new FLSA laws require your employer to pay you overtime after you work over forty hours in a week. If you are making over $47,476 a year you will not be paid overtime because your are considered overtime exempt. Being overtime exempt means you make enough money for your employer to legally not pay you overtime.

Minimum wage is the lowest amount of money that an employer can pay an employee under labor law. The cruel irony of the minimum wage is that it harms most the very segments of our society that it is intended to help—the unskilled poor and the inexperienced young. However, the Canadian Labour Congress (2009) noted, “unionized worker earned $4.97 an hour more than a non-union worker in 2012”. That equates to roughly $10,000 more in monetary compensation relative to non-union workers. Although it varies based on sector and occupation, the union difference for workers across the board is undeniable. The unionized workers are able to live off a living wage.

PTO time will allow employees more flexibility when it comes to vacation time, emergencies, and even schedules events that require the individual to miss work. These twelve days will help the employee’s better plan his/ her vacation and other scheduled commitments and drastically reduce the number of unscheduled days off since all the days in one category instead of only allowing five sick days and seven vacation days. However, there will still be some days that the employees cannot request off in advance, but this policy would allow the employee a certain time period to tell the employer they cannot make it to work on a given day. By offering this type of time off structure, it will help the employer more time to plan and prepare for the staff shortage in a more efficient manner. Also, paid time off helps the employer and employee not have to differentiate what is acceptable and applicable to a holiday and sick day and it will help motivate the employees to not use a sick day unless he/ she is actually sick (Hulett, 2007). Therefore, if an employee is rarely sick, then that employee will have more vacation time to use

Since the industrial revolution, our country has made tremendous strides to ensure Equal Employment Opportunity and safe work environments. Horror stories of unfair treatment and unsafe work environments are portrayed in Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle”. Factory working conditions are portrayed as men, women, and child work long hours in unsafe conditions with no worker rights whatsoever (Sinclair, 2011). As workers died in the factory or were injured, another warm body was placed in their position (Sinclair, 2011). Wages were almost nonexistent (Sinclair, 2011). It is because of unsafe working environments, low wages, long hours, etc. that the government decided to intervene and create various regulatory groups. As we

Over the last two decades, American workers have been clocking more and more hours on the job, and they now work more hours than workers in any other industrialized country. Annual work hours are 4% higher than they were in 1980, amounting to an extra 1 hour and 30 minutes at work per week, on average (ILO 1999). Workers are also clocking more overtime hours. Almost one-third of the workforce regularly works more than the standard 40-hour week; one-fifth work more than 50 hours. The growth in overtime work, while helping to drive the healthy growth in output in the U.S., has unhealthy social costs. It is taking its toll not only on workers, but on their families, communities, and, ultimately in many cases, patients, customers, and

The issues and events examined in these two essays provide a fair and thoughtful discussion of processes that have led to diminished workplace rights among the women and migrant and immigrant workers in Canada. The decisive role in the development of long-term strategies as wage solidarity, the operation

Narrow your focus How the Workers under the Ontario's new Employment Standards will help the workers

In the 1930’s a huge factor lead to the passage of income continuity, the Great Depression. During the Great Depression scores of businesses failed, and many workers became chronically unemployed (Martoccho, 2015). The Great Depression brought the demise of smaller businesses and forced many to work in the larger factories. Subsequently, these conditions lead to the passage of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (FLSA). Since 1938 the federal government has broadened the scope of the FLSA in 1947 twice through the passage of two acts: Portal-to-Portal Act of 1947 and the Equal Pay Act of 1963 (Martoccho, 2015). These acts are depicted to address the child labor provisions, minimum wage, and overtime pay.

Canada a nation with some of the richest histories in the world, some more intriguing than others whether it be its contribution during the second world war, or more importantly its fight within its self in seeking for equality and justice for it people. Similar is the case for labor the fight and struggle that was encountered by thousands in the early years of 1800’s till present. There were plentiful struggles made including ending child labor, the workers compensation, fight for being unionized in order to survive the brutality of the capitalists. In this paper I will explore the history of the minimum wage globally and the acts used to enact it in Canada with relevance to current economic conditions. Minimum wage is defined as “the minimum

Firstly, employment tribunals and the courts have interpreted the concept of ‘workers’ too narrowly, by limiting the common law interpretation of ‘workers’ under section 230(3) of the ERA 1996 and rights conferred on workers. Under section 230(3) ERA 1996, ‘worker’ is defined as “an individual who has entered into work: under a contract of employment, or any other contract express or implied… to do

     Besides a relatively non-competitive business environment, Canada?s labour force also lacks the competitive mindset. Structural employment remains high, which is partly due to the existence of social assistance and unemployment insurance systems. Work incentives are low under the protection of the employment insurance program, which indirectly contributes in a higher than the desirable unemployment rate. Furthermore, unions and other similar groups do not promote many incentives for workers to stay competitive in the workplace by continuously learning and improving productivity. Countries that have been most successful in cutting unemployment are those that have improved