Labour Laws For Ontario In Wake
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Ontario's Stance on Breaks In Ontario—the Canadian province with the highest number of full-time workers—the Employment Standards Act (ESA) mandates that most employees must be granted a 30-minute break, or eating period, for every five consecutive hours of work.
Full-time employees typically work 37.5 to 40 hours per week, while part-time employees work fewer hours, often less than 30 hours per week. These definitions are based on individual company policies and not on a legal standard.
Your employer must give you 11 consecutive hours off work in each 24-hour period. You must also have 24 straight hours off work each work week, or 48 straight hours off every two work weeks. Your employer must give you eight hours off between shifts.
Section 17(1) sets out the daily and weekly maximum hours that an employer may require or allow an employee to work: Daily maximum: eight hours per day or, if there is an established work day that is longer than eight hours, the number of hours in that work day. Weekly maximum: 48 hours per work week.
Section 17(1) sets out the daily and weekly maximum hours that an employer may require or allow an employee to work: Daily maximum: eight hours per day or, if there is an established work day that is longer than eight hours, the number of hours in that work day. Weekly maximum: 48 hours per work week.
On December 19, 2024, Ontario's Bill 229, Working for Workers Six Act, 2024 received Royal Assent. Bill 229 amends the ESA to add an unpaid Child Placement Leave (to be proclaimed in force) and an unpaid Long-Term Illness Leave for eligible employees (in force on June 19, 2025).
Minimum wage laws do not apply to certain jobs and employment situations, including: Federally Regulated Employees: Those working in industries like airlines, banks, federal civil service, post offices, radio and TV broadcasting, fisheries, and inter-provincial transportation.
Ing to section 50.0. 2 of the Employment Standards Act, 2000, employees are entitled to two unpaid bereavement days in Ontario. They must be working for the employer for at least two consecutive weeks or 14 days to have the entitlement.
Shift Cancellations If it does not meet the 48 hour requirement then the employer is responsible for paying the employee for at least three hours of work at their regular wage.
On October 23, 2018, the Ontario government introduced Bill 47, Making Ontario Open for Business Act, 2018, which was created to repeal many of the employment and labour reforms that were introduced by the previous Ontario government as part of Bill 148, Fair Workplaces, Better Jobs Act, 2017.
