Provincial employment standards

Provincial employment standards are the Canadian rules on hours of work, overtime, minimum wage, public holidays, and vacation.

Each province and territory has its own statute. There is no single national overtime trigger, national vacation entitlement, or national minimum wage for most workplaces. Federally regulated industries — banks, telecom, airlines, interprovincial transport, and the other listed federal workplaces — sit under the Canada Labour Code, not the provincial act.

For a US reader, this is closer to a patchwork of state wage-and-hour laws than to one FLSA-style federal floor that applies to most private employers. An Ontario figure is an Ontario figure, not a Canadian default.