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As part of the National Payroll Institute’s advocacy efforts to streamline the administration of employment standards in all jurisdictions in Canada, the Institute made recommendations to simplify and streamline certain employment standards in Alberta. These recommendations include:

Recommendations in Brief

• Exclude elect-to-work employees in the holiday eligibility requirements.
• Limit the amount of compassionate care leave intervals to 1 or 2.
• Allow employers to direct wages to their Minister or Director of Labour/Employment Standards when a terminated employee cannot be located.
• Eliminate the continuous employment provisions for the time between termination and rehiring.
• Make it clear in the employment code and rules that deductions for errors that occurred longer than 6 months prior are permitted with written authorization from the employee.