LAW 529 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: The Employer, Parental Leave, The Leaves
26 Nov 2016
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Payment of wages: agreements to vary, minimum employment standards. Critically ill child care leave [s. 49. 4] Crime-related child death or disappearance leave [s. 49. 5] Introduction: the employment standards act (esa) prescribes certain minimum employment standards, which must be met or exceeded. General requirements: record-keeping and posting, meaning of (cid:498)employee(cid:499) Meaning of (cid:498)employee(cid:499: the term (cid:498)employee(cid:499) is broadly defined to cover the vast majority of situations in which a person performs work for or provides services to another and receives payment in return. It does not cover independent contractors (e. g. , the person who installs your patio, fixes your furnace, etc. , is not your employee). Certain minimum requirements or standards apply only to certain categories of employees (e. g. , entitlement to overtime pay). Record keeping and posting: the esa requires employers to keep employment records for a certain length of time. Employers must also post employment standards in the workplace and enforce them. Payment of wages: the employer is to:
