Yukon Employment Standards
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 Yukon. These recommendations include:
Recommendations in Brief
- Eliminate the decrease of standard hours in weeks that contain a statutory holiday.
- Explicitly exclude elect-to-work employees in the holiday eligibility requirements.
- Limit the amount of compassionate care leave intervals to 1-2.
- Explicitly allow electronic pay statements in legislation.
- Allow deduction of overpayments of salary and vacation without employee’s written consent.