Provincial employment standards

A Canadian term. Provincial employment standards are the hours, overtime, minimum-wage, and vacation rules in each Canadian province or territory, with federally regulated workplaces under the Canada Labour Code instead.

In Australia, do not copy a provincial employment standards act into policy. Hours of work, overtime, and penalty rates sit under the Fair Work Act 2009 and the relevant modern award or enterprise agreement, with a national minimum wage as the floor. A Canadian page that says “overtime after 44 hours” is usually describing Ontario, not an Australian default.

Related: overtime, penalty rates, national minimum wage.