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You must be paid overtime after eight hours of work in one day.
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Your employer must pay you two times your regular wage for each hour worked
after 12 hours. This is known as double time.
21.How is weekly overtime calculated?
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You must be paid for working more than 40 regular hours in one week. If you work
over 40 hours, your employer must pay you one and a half times your regular wage
for each hour after you have worked 40 hours. Weekly overtime is counted by
adding up the regular hours, i.e. eight or less in a day. When it adds up to more
than 40 hours in one week, you must be paid weekly overtime.
22.Do employers have to pay you if you are sick and cannot work? /1
The law does not require employers to pay you if you are sick and cannot
work.
23. What vacation time are you entitled to? /2
After you have worked at your job for one year, you must get at least two
weeks off for vacation annually. After working five years in a row with the
same employer, you must get at least three weeks off for vacation annually.
24. What is vacation pay? /2
Your vacation pay is a percentage of the total wages you received in a year.
You must get at least 4% of your gross earnings.
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27.How does the ESA protect you if you take an unpaid leave? /1
They cover by when you come back you can make sure you have your
job.
28.Name 6 unpaid leaves which are covered by the ESA? /1
Pregnancy leave, parental leave, family responsibility leave, passionate
care leave, jury duty, bereavement leave.
29.What should you do if you feel your working conditions are
unsafe? /1
Contact BCFED
30.What does the Human Rights Code state about discrimination in
the workplace? What are the protected grounds?
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Employers are not allowed to be discriminated or to discriminate
others, grounds are sex, race, origin, past crime history etc.
31.What is a layoff and when does it become a termination? /2
When you are asked to take unpaid leave, and 13/20 week period is the
termination.
32.Does an employer need to provide a reason to fire you? /1
No they do not.
Report incidents to BCFED with date and time and also talk to your
employer about making changes.
37.What is the purpose of the Employment Standards Self-help
Kit? /1
To help employers and employees to figure things out themselves.