Employment Regulations

• ARCHIVE - Canada Pension Plan - Payroll Deductions: The Canada Pension Plan Act and its Regulations establish a contributory, earnings-related social insurance program. It protects a contributor and his or her family against the loss of income due to retirement, disability and death. The CPP operates in all provinces, although Quebec operates its own similar program (Quebec Pension Plan ).
• ARCHIVE - Canada Pension Plan - Social Insurance Numbers: The Canada Pension Plan - Social Insurance - Regulations specifies the manner in which a person may apply for a SIN card, and the duties of the employer with regard to the SIN.
• Construction Contracting with the Canadian Government - Fair Wages and Hours of Labour: The Fair Wages and Hours of Labour Act specifies that persons who enter into a contract with the federal government regarding construction, remodelling, repair or demolition, must follow certain rules in relation to their employees.
• Employment Equity: The Employment Equity Act requires employers to identify and eliminate barriers to the employment of women, members of visible minorities, persons with disabilities and Aboriginal peoples. As well, employers must move towards a representative workforce. By law, they are required to develop and implement an employment equity plan, in consultation and collaboration with employee representatives. If employers fail to file an annual report with HRSDC, they may face a monetary penalty.
• ARCHIVE - Employment Insurance - Payroll Deductions: The Employment Insurance (EI) Act specifies the withholding, remitting and reporting requirements of employment insurance premiums for employers.
• Employment Standards: (Territorial Regulation)The Employment Standards Act sets out the minimum conditions of employment in the Yukon Territory.
• Equal Pay: (Territorial Regulation)Under the Employment Standards Act, male and female employees in the same establishment cannot be paid at different rates if the employees' working conditions and duties are similar.
• General Holidays: (Territorial Regulation) Under the Employment Standards Act there are 9 general holidays; New Year's Day, Good Friday, Victoria Day, Canada Day, Discovery Day, Labour Day, Thanksgiving Day, Remembrance Day and Christmas Day. Easter Sunday and Boxing Day are not general holidays.
• Hours of Work and Overtime: (Territorial Regulation) Under the Employment Standards Act, the normal limits on hours of work for most workers in the Yukon are eight (8) hours each day and 40 hours per week. A general holiday reduces the standard hours by eight hours. Overtime is any hours worked in excess of eight (8) in a day and forty (40) in a week.
• Maternity and Parental Leave: (Territorial Regulation) Under the Employment Standards Act, an employee who has been continuously employed by her employer for at least 12 months is entitled to maternity leave of 17 weeks of upaid leave.
• Payment of Wages: (Territorial Regulation) A pay period cannot exceed 16 days. The employer has 10 days after the end of the pay period to pay all wages owing for the period.
• Record Keeping (Territorial Regulation): Employers must keep a keep complete and accurate records of the employee's address, the number of hours worked by the employee in each day and each week, the employees gross earnings and deductions, accumulated overtime, time off with pay in lieu of overtime pay, vacations taken by the employee, leaves of absence taken by the employee, the employee's conditions of employment.
• Record of Employment (ROE): The Employment Insurance Act and its Regulations require every employer to complete a Record of Employment (ROE) when an employee stops working.
• Special Leave Without Pay: (Territorial Regulation) Special leave is an unpaid leave of absence available to the employee for illness or injury, or for a death in the employee's immediate family. An employee is entitled to a maximum of 12 days of unpaid sick leave. The leave is earned at the rate of 1 day per month.
• Termination of Employment: (Territorial Regulation) Under the Employment Standards Act, a termination notice is required after the employee completes six (6) consecutive months of employment with the employer. Both employers and employees are required to give written notice.
• Vacation and Vacation Pay: (Territorial Regulation) Under the Employment Standards Act, employees, whether part-time, seasonal or temporary, are entitled to an annual vacation with vacation pay after each completed year of employment. Vacation pay is 4% of the gross wages earned by the employee during the year in which the employee earned the vacation time.
• Yukon Minimum Wage: (Territorial Regulation) Under the Employment Standards Act, most employees in the Yukon are entitled to at least minimum wage of $7.20 per hour.