No person under the age of sixteen (16) years shall be employed or allowed to work in any public or private agricultural, industrial, or non-industrial undertaking or any branch thereof, save and except for holiday job employment.
The period of probation for an unskilled worker should be no more than one (1) month, and no more than three (3) months for other workers but may be extended by a collective agreement.
All payments due after termination or completion of a contract of employment should be made within seven (7) days.
An employee is entitled to not less than two (2) weeks’ vacation with pay for the first year of employment and three (3) weeks thereafter.
An employee employed daily is entitled to a period of paid vacation leave of not less than one (1) working day for every period of fifteen (15) days worked.
An employee employed on an hourly basis is entitled to a period of paid vacation of not less than one (1) working day, for every one hundred and twenty hours worked.
Disciplinary action includes: a verbal warning, a written warning, suspension, demotion & dismissal.
Termination allowance is compensation paid to an employee upon dismissal by the employer for years of service.
An employee who has completed one (1) year or more of continuous service is entitled to be paid by the employer a termination allowance of not less than one (1) week’s wages for every completed year of service.
A person is not entitled to be paid termination allowance because of the following:
- If they are fairly dismissed for a reason related to gross misconduct.
- If they unreasonably refuse to accept an offer of re-employment by the employer at the same place of work
- If they are employed by a partnership and his employment ceases on the dissolution of the partnership, and he either enters into employment with one or more of the partners immediately after such dissolution.
- If they are over the age of sixty or have reached retirement age.
An employee whose pregnancy commences before she has worked for her employer for a period of eighteen (18) months is not entitled to maternity leave with pay.
Maternity pay should be paid in a lump sum on the first day of maternity leave; or
in the same way the employee was ordinarily paid previously, at the election of the employee.
Maternity pay shall comprise:
- In the case of monthly paid employees, a sum not less than forty (40) percent of two months’ pay.
- In the case of weekly or fortnightly paid employees, a sum not less than forty (40) percent of four fortnights’ pay.
- In the case of daily paid workers, a sum not less than forty (40) percent of one-fifth of the pay earned in the twelve (12) months immediately prior to the commencement of the leave being taken.