This blog post is intended to help you understand small claims court employment disputes and to help you pick a small claims court employment lawyer or a small claims court employment paralegal in Toronto. What is the maximum amount of money you can sue your employer for in the Ontario Small Claims Court? The maximum …
To qualify for employment insurance (“EI”) you need “X” number of “Hours” of work during a 52 week “Qualifying Period”. Some employees who are just short of the number of Hours required to be eligible for EI ask me if the severance pay, or the pay in lieu of notice upon termination they receive counts as …
No matter how an employee is paid (i.e. salary, hourly or purely commissioned based), every employee in Ontario is entitled to both vacation time and vacation pay. However, some employers wrongfully fail to pay vacation pay on all the different kinds of wages employees in Ontario earn like bonuses and commissions. The Difference between vacation …
In Ontario, deducting ‘negative’ vacation time from wages without a written authorization does not comply with employment standards legislation and is therefore illegal. For example, in Ontario, employees do not accrue paid vacation time until they have completed one year of service. Nevertheless, some employers, like banks and insurance companies, will permit their employees to …
This article has been updated on March 20, 2020, with news of proposed changes to the Employment Standards Act, but may still be out of date due to Ontario legislation changes resulting from COVID-19, which are currently in flux. Maximum sick leave in Ontario Section 50.2 of the Ontario Employment Standards Act (minimum statutory protections for Ontario …
Free Consultations? I read somewhere that if a lawyer advertises for a free consultation, it should raise red flags. I respectfully disagree. There is zero difference between a paid consultation and a free consultation. I should know, in the first five years of my practice, I flip-flopped from either policy. Starting out, when I was …
Standard hours of work in Ontario are 44 hours or less per week. Employees are entitled to their regular wage rate for work during these 44 or fewer hours per week. If employees work more than the standard hours in a week, overtime kicks in and employees must be paid at the overtime rate. Overtime …
Section 19(3)(i) of the Employment Insurance Regulations (SOR/96-332) (“the Regulations”) state that an employer must issue the Record of Employment (“ROE”) within 5 days after the employee’s earnings are “interrupted”.
What is termination pay? Who is entitled to termination pay? How much termination pay am I entitled to? Termination pay information for Canada.
Sometimes, an employer decides to force an executive to sign a new contract while they are still working (usually in case of promotion, or because the executive doesn’t have a contract already, or the employer wants to update the termination clause in an existing contract, or because the employer simply thinks the executive earns too …