A Guide for Employers during COVID-19 This Guide sets out the key employment law issues to consider, as well as the government's financial relief options to explore to get through this deep economic crisis. (Last Updated April 1, 2021) Further free resources can be found here. Should you need legal advice on how to manage your workplace during the COVID-19 outbreak, please get in touch.
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Along with vacation pay, overtime is another area of the Employment Standards Act that can be confusing and can get employers in trouble.
Entitlement to Overtime Pay
Most employees are entitled to be paid overtime – which is 1.5 times their normal pay rate – for every hour they work in excess of 44 hours in a week.
Some employees are exempt, including most of the regulated professions, many employees in healthcare jobs, IT workers and managers among others. For a full list of job types that are not entitled to overtime see the Ministry of Labour’s Guidance.
The manager exemption can be a tricky one and we will address that in Part 2 next week.
A Guide for Employers during COVID-19 This Guide sets out the key employment law issues to consider, as well as the government's financial relief options to explore to get through this deep economic crisis. (Last Updated March 26, 2021) Further free resources can be found here. Should you need legal advice on how to manage your workplace during the COVID-19 outbreak, please get in touch.
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With the vaccine becoming more widely available, questions about vaccine passports, time off to get the vaccine and whether employers can require employees to get the vaccine are becoming more relevant.
Paid Vaccination Leave in Saskatchewan
Last week a new paid vaccine leave became law in Saskatchewan. This leave, which was made under Saskatchewan’s Occupational Health and Safety Regulations, 2020, allows workers to take PAID time off to get their vaccines. Saskatchewan is the first jurisdiction in Canada to implement this type of leave.
Over the course of the past year, many people have had reductions in earnings and received some form of government income assistance – EI, CERB or Canada Recovery Benefit (CRB).
In some cases, employees who initially thought that their interruption or reduction in earnings was temporary have had their employment terminated.
In almost all termination situations an employee will be entitled to some form of termination payment from the employer. Employees who are also receiving government income assistance may wonder how their government payments will be impacted by their termination packages.
While not everything is crystal clear at this point, we have some thoughts!
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