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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 the Northwest Territories. These recommendations include: 

Recommendations in Brief 

• Eliminate the decrease of standard hours in weeks that contain a statutory holiday. 
• Exclude elect-to-work employees in the holiday eligibility requirements. 
• Limit the amount of compassionate care leave intervals to 1 or 2. 
• Eliminate the continuous employment provisions for the time between termination and rehiring. 
• Legally obligate employees to provide advance notice of resignation. 
• Allow deduction of overpayments of salary and vacation without employee’s written consent. 
• Have clear legislation on travel time.