Ontario

The chart below is the Ontario holiday schedule

Holiday	2021	2022
New Year’s Day	Friday, January 1	Saturday, January 1
Family Day	Monday, February 15	Monday, February 21
Good Friday	Friday, April 2	Friday, April 15
Victoria Day	Monday, May 24	Monday, May 23
Canada Day	Thursday, July 1	Friday, July 1
Civic Day *	Monday, August 2	Monday, August 1
Labour Day	Monday, September 6	Monday, September 5
Thanksgiving Day	Monday, October 11	Monday, October 10
Christmas Day	Saturday, December 25	Sunday, December 25
Boxing Day	Sunday, December 26	Monday, December 26

* Not a statutory holiday. Employers may choose to offer holiday pay.

•Any statutory holiday that falls on Saturday or Sunday is observed on the following Monday;

•Labour Day is observed on the first Monday in September;

•Thanksgiving Day is observed on the second Monday in October;

•Remembrance Day is not a statutory holiday in Ontario; and

•Easter Sunday is not a public holiday but under the Retail Business Holidays Act businesses are required to be closed

The chart below shows relevant information on Employment Standards

Topics	Comments
Minimum Hourly Rates	As of October 1, 2021 •$14.35 – general worker •$12.55 – liquor server •$13.50 – students under the age of 18 (less than 28 hours per week) •$15.80 – homeworkers
Hours of Work	•maximum 8 hours daily •maximum 48 hours weekly •employee must be paid a minimum of three hours if called in to work
Overtime Pay	1-1/2 times of regular pay after 44 hours of work in a week
Rest/Eating Periods	•in a 24-hour period, a rest period of 11 consecutive hours; •between shifts, eight hours of rest period •in a work week, a rest period of 24 consecutive hours •a 30-minute eating break after five hours of work or this can be split into two 15-minute breaks
Vacation Entitlement	• two weeks of vacation time with less than five years of employment • three weeks of vacation time with five or more years of employment
Vacation Pay	•4% of vacationable earnings for employment less than five years •6% of vacationable earnings for employment of five or more years
Pregnancy Leave	17 weeks or longer of unpaid time off work
Parental Leave	Birth mothers can take up to 61 weeks of unpaid time off work. All other new parents can take up to 63 weeks of unpaid time off work.
Family Medical	Leave is unpaid. It is a job-protected leave of up to 28 weeks in a 52-week period
Family Responsibility	Employees are allowed up to three days per year after they have worked for at least two consecutive weeks.
Bereavement	Allowed up to 2 unpaid days of leave each calendar year because of the death of family members.

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