The Employment Standards Act

Identify sources and types of information and advice available in relation to employment responsibilities and rights.

Employment laws in Canada can be tricky due to the number of sets of legislation. A company considering Canada expansion should benefit from proper research and legal

Fig. 3 "Current Publications: Employment and Labour." : The Employment Insurance Program in Canada: How It Works. N.p., n.d. Web. 21 Feb. 2016.

The UHCA follows a tradition of attempts to ensure universal health care coverage in the U.S. During the nation’s early history of 1883-1912, there were no government health insurance programs or efforts to subsidize voluntary funds. The states were responsible for individual programs and it was left to the private industry. Some voluntary funds were available for members in case of sickness or death.

1. Which Act sets the minimum wage , and what is the current wage rate?

The student hourly wage is presently $9.60/hour and is set to increase to $10.30/hour on June 1st, 2014. Liquor servers’ minimum wage is the hourly rate, which applies to employees who directly serve liquor to customers or guests in licensed premises as a regular part of their work. Licensed premises are businesses, which have been issued a license or permit issued under the Liquor License Act, which allows an establishment to serve liquor. Liquor servers presently make $8.90/hour and as of June 1st, 2014, $9.55. Hunting and fishing guides minimum wage are based on blocks of time instead of by the hour. They get a minimum amount for working less than five consecutive hours in a day, and a different amount for working five hours or more in a day- whether or not the hours are consecutive. The hourly rate for working less than five consecutive hours is presently $51.25 and will be raised to $55.00 as of June 1st, 2014. The hourly wage for working five or more hours whether it is consecutive or not is presently $102.50 and will also be soon raised to $110.00 as of June 1st, 2014. Homeworkers wage are hourly wages paid to employees who do paid work in their own homes. For example: sew clothes for a clothing manufacturer or write software for a high-tech company. The hourly wage is presently set at $11.28/hour but is soon set to change to $12.10 as of June 1st, 2014.

Believe it or not, before 1938, there was a time when children as young as 8-10 years old (sometimes even younger) would be forced to work until midnight or later in America during the time of the industrial revolution (Bennett-Alexander & Hartman, 2001). There were simply no laws to regulate the maximum number of hours that children could work, how old they had to be, or how much they had to at least be paid. Thus, in 1938, Congress invoked its constitutional powers to regulate interstate commerce and passed a law known as the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) that addresses these malpractices by employers.

There are several million undocumented immigrants employed in the United States (Burton, 2015). Even though the labor market has changed, the original National Labor Relations Act has not. The NLRA provide legal protection to employees to not be terminated for participate in organizing a union. NLRA created a blanket enforcement of NLBA rights equal for undocumented workers and U.S. citizens (Zdravecky & Hass, 2014). The law does not expressly detail terms who is considered an employee of an employer. The original intent of the law was to provide protection to anyone regularly employed in the U.S. The actions of the NLRA board makes it clear the board felt that undocumented workers deserved equal protection for the NLRA. If employer was

Umesh Regmi Dr. Lisa Moody English 101 Section 54 22 November 2014 Time for a Raise “A family with two kids that earns the minimum wage still lives below the poverty line. That’s wrong. Tonight, let’s declare that in the wealthiest nation on Earth, no one who works full time should have to live in poverty.” —President Barack Obama. For the purpose of keeping America out of poverty and increase consumer purchasing power in order to simulate the economy, President Franklin Roosevelt signed the law of minimum wage on June 25, 1938 as a part of the Fair labor Standards Act of 1938. The first minimum wage was $0.25 an hour, which is equivalent to $4.18 in today’s dollars. Started from $0.25 an hour, the minimum wage was raised to $7.25 per hour on July 24, 2009. Although the minimum wage has been increased to $7.25 an hour, the value of it has fallen sharply over the past forty years. In 1968, the federal minimum wage was $1.60 an hour, which translates to $10.90 in 2013 dollars. One of the most important reasons behind declaring the minimum wage law is to ensure that even the lowest-paid workers would receive an adequate level of pay. Adjusted for inflation, the minimum wage raise in 2009 was way lower than it was in 1968. The law that promises to pay its workers sufficient money for their living has failed in past decades. In order to adjust the minimum wage to the inflation, to improve the living standard of the people, and to boost the overall economy of the country,

The implementation of the Fair Work Act 2009 which came into force on January 1st 2010, was to create a national workplace relations system for the purpose of setting wages and conditions of employment. This legislation is overlooked by the Fair Work Commission and ombudsman, whose role is to maintain a safety net of minimum wages and conditions and ensure compliance with the Fair Work Act. The creation of the Fair Work Act (2009) is to regulate business cooperation’s for the purpose of providing safety nets for minimum wages and entitlements, flexible working arrangements and ensure fairness at the workplace. Under the Fair Work Act 2009, ten National Employment Standards

J. (2013). Employment law for human resource practice (4th ed.). Mason, OH: South-Western Cengage Learning.

The federal government and the governments of British Columbia, Alberta and Saskatchewan have each enacted legislation regarding minimum employment standards, pay equity, occupational health and safety, workers ' compensation and labour relations.

The essence of the duties and responsibilities of a payroll practitioner is that the payment for employees must be accurately calculated and paid on a timely basis. Canadian law includes payroll compliance legislation that details the rules companies must operate under and the potential penalties if they are not compliant. The Income Tax Act, Employment Insurance Act and Canada Pension Plan Act are included among the legislation that

Most EU law is also introduced into UK law via statutes. European Union directive can be interpreted into domestic law as it is less specific and most European Union influence on UK employment law has been through directives.

The Health and Safety at work act (HASAWA) is a piece of legislation that used in the UK for health and safety. It places a responsibility for employers to provide health and safety protection for all the employees under him or her, thereby creating a safer workplace for workers and visitors alike. It is done for personal safety as well as because it is the law.