NWT will then have the highest minimum wage rate in Canada. Currently, Nunavut has the highest minimum wage at $11.00 per hour.
Currently the NWT minimum wage is $10.00 an hour, the lowest rate in Canada. The NWT minimum wage rate has not been changed since 2011.
The increase in the minimum wage was recommended to the Government by groups including the NWT Chamber of Commerce.
The Family and Medical Leave Act does not require all employers to grant leave to all employees. One condition for eligibility requires an employee to work at, or within 75 miles of, a site at which the employer employs at least 50 employees. And while it is unlawful for an employer to interfere with or retaliate against an employee for the exercise of FMLA rights, an employee who is ineligible for FMLA leave logically […]
With the start of 2015, new ban-the-box laws became effective in Illinois, the City of Chicago, and Montgomery and Prince George’s counties in Maryland. Ban-the-box laws prohibit questions about an applicant’s criminal background on employment applications and often include additional restrictions on inquiries by employers into criminal history.
Illinois’s Job Opportunities for Qualified Applicants Act, which became effective on January 1, prohibits covered employers from inquiring into the criminal history of an applicant until after […]