Sentences with phrase «labour standards legislation»

Fathers or adoptive parents who want to extend their parental leave to add the additional 26 weeks to the allowed 37 weeks under employment / labour standards legislation face the same situation.

Existing leave provisions under provincial employment or labour standards legislation remain unchanged by Budget 2017.

Furthermore, the amendments grant the Minister of Employment, Workforce Development and Labour the power to order employer to perform an internal audit of their practices, books, payroll, and other records to establish compliance with labour standards legislation, including vacation entitlements, statutory leaves, hours of work, etc..

While [Ontario] employment / labour standard legislation providing for parental leaves of absence is silent on accommodation, courts across the country have in recent years made it clear that employers must assist employees who are caring for family members, young or old.

The Federal Government has launched a consultation process to determine whether changes should be made to federal labour standards legislation, which is found in Part III of the Canada Labour Code (the «Code») and the Canada Labour Standards Regulations.

Quebec deals with the broad matter of psychological harassment in labour standards legislation.

In Alberta, British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Northwest Territories, Yukon, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick and Newfoundland and Labrador Remembrance Day is a paid public (statutory) holiday under employment / labour standards legislation.

The labour standards legislation of all provinces contains similar maternity leave protections.

At this time, only employees in federally regulated workplaces and in workplaces in Ontario and Alberta can take advantage of the extended EI parental benefits or family caregiver benefit for adults since these jurisdictions have amended their employment / labour standards legislation to harmonize the leaves with the period allowed for benefits to be paid.

However, provincial and territorial employment / labour standards legislation are responsible for providing and regulating the actual leave component.

The following jurisdictions all recognize the first Monday in August as a statutory holiday, meaning employers must treat the day no differently than any other public holiday as per the governing employment / labour standards legislation:

Entitlements for job protected leaves for provincially regulated employees continue under the applicable provincial employment or labour standards legislation.

The problem is that they are only permitted a combined statutory leave of 12 months under provincial or territorial employment / labour standards legislation.

In the absence of changes to provincial or territorial employment / labour standards legislation, an employer faced with a request by an employee to grant an extended maternity / parental leave to match the period in which the employee is entitled to EI benefits for 18 months, may have to decline the request or accommodate the employee.

However, fathers who work in provincially regulated workplaces will have to wait to take advantage of the EI Parental Sharing Benefit until employment and labour standards legislation is amended by their respective province or territory to include paternity leave.