Employment Standards Workshop
What is covered by the ESA?
The ESA covers a wide range of employment standards including: minimum requirements for employment; provisions to assist employees with family responsibilities; increased flexibility in work arrangements; and mechanisms for compliance and enforcement.
- The employment standards poster: posting and distributing requirements
- Hours of work, eating periods and rest periods
- Payment of wages
- Overtime pay
- Tips and gratuities
- Minimum wage
- Pregnancy and parental leave
- Personal emergency leave
- Family caregiver leave
- Family medical leave
- Critical illness leave
- Crime-related child death or disappearance leave
- Public holidays
- Vacation
- Termination of employment and temporary layoffs
- Severance of employment
- Equal pay for equal work
- Temporary help agencies
- Enforcement and compliance