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Employment Standards Code changes

Ken Proudman Executive
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  BARR LLP
   Edmonton, Alberta


There are quite a few changes being made to the Employment Standards Code. The changes will come into effect on January 1, 2018, although there are still several details being finalized.

Those of you with employees will definitely want to review the changes, as there are a large volume of changes being made which will likely affect you.

Otherwise, there isn't really anything that directly impacts family law. However, many of the changes affect issues that clients might ask you questions about, such as the extended parental leave and compassionate care leave, new types of protected leave (personal and family responsibility leave, long-term illness and injury leave, bereavement leave, domestic violence leave, citizenship ceremony leave, critical illness of a child leave, and death or disappearance of a child leave), that most protected leaves may now be sought after 90 days of employment rather than a year, and that minors will now be restricted to certain areas of employment. Protected leaves are ones for which the employees cannot be terminated except for specified reasons. Except as permitted by the federal EI program (ie parental leave, sickness, compassionate care), they are generally unpaid. Family members will be exempt from the Code.

You can read the Government of Alberta's list of changes here: https://www.alberta.ca/employment-standards-changes.aspx


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