Under the Employment Standards Act, 2000 (ESA), most employers have certain obligations, known as “employment standards.” To help support small businesses, we have developed a What Businesses Need to Know tipsheet (attached), that can be shared with small businesses to help them understand their employment standards obligations.
Here are some additional resources that can be shared with small businesses to help them understand their employment standards obligations:
- Your Guide to the ESA: Information about employment standards and guides you through specific rules and how they work
- Illegal deductions from wages: Understand what constitutes an illegal deduction from wages.
· Mandatory information to provide employees: Employers (and in some cases recruiters) are required to give employees certain information or informational documents
o Employment Standards Poster: Employers must provide all employees covered under the Employment Standards Act (ESA) with a copy of the most recent version of the poster within 30 days of the person becoming an employee
- Employment standards self-service tool: Determine if the amounts paid to an employee meet minimum standards for the following ESA provisions, and how these employment standards apply in the workplace
- Employment Standards Information Centre: Staff can help identify and define issues under the ESA.
- Two Pager - What Businesses Need to Know
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