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(Wages & Pay)
(Wages & Pay)
$200: This is the specific minimum wage rate that often applies to workers under 18 who work part-time while school is in session.
Answer: What is the Student Minimum Wage?
$200: After working this many consecutive hours, you are entitled to a 30-minute unpaid meal break.
Answer: What is five hours?
$200: This is the term for an organized group of workers who unite to make decisions about conditions of their work.
Answer: What is a Union?
$200: This is the name of the law that sets the minimum standards for most workplaces in Ontario.
Answer: What is the Employment Standards Act (ESA)?
$200: These are the "Three Basic Rights" guaranteed to all workers in Ontario under the Occupational Health and Safety Act.
Answer: What are the Right to Know, the Right to Participate, and the Right to Refuse (unsafe work)?
$400: If you earn $16.50/hour, this is the minimum amount per hour you must be paid for overtime hours.
Answer: What is $24.75? (1.5x regular pay)
$400: This is the maximum number of hours most employees can be required to work in a single week under the ESA.
Answer: What is 48 hours?
$400: This is the process where a union and an employer sit down to negotiate a contract regarding wages, hours, and benefits.
Answer: What is Collective Bargaining?
$400: If an employer punishes or fires you for asking about your rights, it is called this illegal act.
Answer: What is a Reprisal?
$400: This acronym refers to the system used for labeling hazardous materials in the workplace with symbols and safety data sheets.
Answer: What is WHMIS (Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System)?
$600: This official document must be given to you on or before payday, showing your gross pay and any legal deductions.
Answer: What is a Pay Stub (or Wage Statement)?
$600: In Ontario, overtime pay officially kicks in after you have worked this many hours in one work week.
Answer: What is 44 hours?
$600: According to the ESA transcript provided, if you are a member of a union, you should talk to this person instead of the Ministry if you have a workplace issue.
Answer: What is a Union Representative (or Steward)?
$600: This "tool" or poster must be provided or displayed by employers so workers know their rights.
Answer: What is the Employment Standards Poster?
$600: While an employer must provide a safe workplace, this is a major responsibility of the worker to prevent injury.
Answer: What is wearing Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) & following safety procedures?
$800: True or False: If a customer leaves without paying their bill, your boss can legally deduct that amount from your paycheck.
Answer: What is False? (Employers cannot deduct for faulty work or cash shortages).
$800: To work more than 8 hours a day (or your regular shift length), your employer must have this from you.
Answer: What is a written agreement?
$800: This is the name of the legal contract between a union and an employer that outlines the rules of the workplace.
Answer: What is a Collective Agreement?
$800: If you have been employed for at least 3 months and are fired without cause, your employer must give you either "Notice" or this.
Answer: What is Termination Pay?
$800: If a worker believes a task is dangerous to themselves or others, they should immediately perform this action.
Answer: What is a Work Refusal (Report it to a supervisor/employer)?
$1000: This is the percentage of gross wages most employees in their first 5 years of a job are entitled to receive as vacation pay.
Answer: What is 4%?
$1000: If you work on a Public Holiday, you are entitled to your regular public holiday pay plus this "premium" rate for the hours worked.
Answer: What is 1.5 times (Time-and-a-half)?
$1000: These are the monthly payments made by union members to help fund the union's operations and legal support.
Answer: What are Union Dues?
$1000: If a student is on a "Leave of Absence" (like sick leave), this happens to their job while they are away.
Answer: What is it is protected? (The employer must return them to their job).
$1000: In Ontario, this organization provides insurance and support for workers who are injured on the job.
Answer: What is the WSIB (Workplace Safety and Insurance Board)?