Wages & Work Hours
The name of the basic rate of pay all employers are required to meet.
What is Minimum Wage?
A paid holiday that celebrates the first day of a brand new year.
What is New Years Day?
What you should do if you witness unsafe conditions at work.
What is Report it to your supervisor?
This is the length of time you must work to get a 30 minute unpaid break.
What is Five Hours?
Employers cannot do this to your paycheck without a reason or your permission.
What is Deduct/ make a deduction?
This is the current rate of minimum wage pay employers in PEI are required to meet.
What is $16.00?
This is who you should report a workplace injury to.
What is your employer and the Workplace Compensation Board
This is the amount of time you must have off for every seven day period.
What is 24 consecutive hours?
What is a Pay Stub?
The maximum amount of hours an employee can work in a week before they are working overtime.
What is 48 hours?
a paid holiday that happens a few days BEFORE Easter each year.
What is Good Friday?
You should always wear this to be safe and protected while on the job when needed.
What is Personal Protective Equipment or PPE?
A kind of leave you are entitled to if an immediate family member passes away?
What is Bereavement Leave?
How much notice to terminate work is required for an EMPLOYEE to give to an EMPLOYER when they have worked for 5-10 years?
What is 2 weeks Notice?
The amount of pay an employee is normally given for their overtime work
What is Time and a Half?
a paid holiday that we wear orange shirts for, and happens on the 30th of September.
What is National Day for Truth and Reconciliation/Orange Shirt Day?
The individuals responsible for making sure their employees are adequately trained and supervised of workplace rules and regulations.
What is the Employer/Business/Company?
This is a type of leave you are entitled to if you are summoned to serve Jury Duty.
What is Court Leave?
How much notice or lieu pay is required for an EMPLOYER to terminate an EMPLOYEE without a reason who has been there for more than 15 years?
What is 8 weeks?
The term used when the amount of overtime you work is saved up and is able to be used later.
What is "Banking Overtime?"
a paid holiday that ONLY happens in Prince Edward Island on the third Monday of February each year.
What is Islander Day?
The name of the Act put in place by the Workers Compensation Board of PEI, also known as OHS?
What is Occupational Health and Safety?
This is a type of leave one may take after they have a baby, or their partner/spouse has a baby?
What is Maternity/Paternity or Parental Leave?
What is No Notice?