Sick leave
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Ontario
3 days’ unpaid each calendar year (if they have worked for employer
for at least 2 consecutive weeks).
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UK
Statutory Sick Pay (£116.75 per week) for up to 28 weeks.
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Holiday entitlement
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Ontario
Employees with less than 5 years of employment: 2 weeks’ after each
12 month holiday entitlement year.
Employees with 5 or more years’ employment: 3 weeks’ holiday.
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UK
For a full-time employee, 28 days per holiday year (20 days’ plus 8 bank
holidays in England and Wales)
NB: different for Scotland.
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Overtime
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Ontario
For most employees, overtime begins after they have worked 44 hours
in a work week. Their hours after 44 must be paid at the overtime pay
rate (time and a half)
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UK
For salaried employees, no requirement to pay overtime.
Hourly paid employees are usually paid on hours actually worked, at
their usual rate.
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Minimum wage
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Ontario
17.20 CAD for general rate. (approx. £10.02)
Various rates depending on roles.
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UK
£11.44 for employee 21 and over (from April 2024) – approx. 19.50 CAD.
Various lower rates depending on age.
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Holiday pay
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Ontario
Employees with >5 years’: at least 6% of the gross wages earned in the
12-month holiday period or stub period.
NB: employees’ contract of employment or collective agreement may
provide a greater right or benefit.
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UK
First 20 days’ holiday pay must be paid at employees’ ‘normal’ rate of
pay (i.e. include commission, bonus, overtime, etc).
Remaining 8 days’ can be paid at employees’ basic salary.
NB: employees’ contract of employment may provide a greater
benefit.
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Maternity leave
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Ontario
Pregnancy leave (before baby is born): 17 weeks (unpaid)
Parental Leave:
If birth mother takes pregnancy leave: 61 weeks’ leave (unpaid)
If birth mother does not take pregnancy leave (plus all other new
parents): 63 weeks’ parental leave (unpaid).
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UK
Up to 52 weeks paid maternity leave.
NB: employers can recover the majority of this cost from HMRC.
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Paternity leave
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Ontario
Parental Leave (unpaid): 61 or 63 weeks of unpaid time off. Must be
used in one go and within 78 weeks of birth.
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UK
Up to 2 week’s paid.
NB: employers can recover the majority of this cost from HMRC.
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Family Caregiver Leave
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Ontario
Employees can take unpaid, job-protected leave of up to eight weeks
per calendar year per specified family member.
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UK
Employees have a right to take a reasonable amount of unpaid time
off work for urgent family reasons.
The right to time off to care for dependants is intended to be for
emergencies only, and the time taken off is unpaid.
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Parental Leave
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Ontario
Most employees have the right to take up to three days of unpaid
job-protected leave each calendar year because of an illness, injury,
medical emergency or urgent matter relating to certain relatives. This
is known as family responsibility leave.
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UK
Parents one year’s continuous service can take up to 18 weeks of
unpaid parental leave for each child up to their 18th birthday (max 4
weeks in any single year). Leave is unpaid, and must be taken for the
purpose of caring for a child.
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