Employee Standards Act | MacLeod Law Firm https://macleodlawfirm.ca Employment & Labour Lawyers Tue, 16 Mar 2021 15:55:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 https://macleodlawfirm.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/cropped-MacLeod-Law-Firm-icon-60x60.jpg Employee Standards Act | MacLeod Law Firm https://macleodlawfirm.ca 32 32 Employer Alert: Government Announces Proposed Changes to Ontario’s Employment Standards Act https://macleodlawfirm.ca/new-changes-employment-standards-act/ Tue, 30 May 2017 18:46:43 +0000 http://www.macleodlawfirm.ca/employers/?p=3497 Today the Ontario government announced that it intends to introduce several amendments to the Employment Standard Act. The changes will be included in the Fair Workplaces, Better Jobs Act, 2017. Here are five of the proposed changes: Minimum Wage increased by 31.5% by January 1, 2019 The current minimum wage for most employees is $ 11.40 per hour. The government proposes increasing this rate to $…

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