P.E.I.

• Hours of Work
• Leaves
• Holidays
• Terminations
• Worker's Compensation
• Pay Statements
• Minimum Wages
• Minimum Age
• Provincial Health
  

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Prince Edward Island

This section provides specific information for the province of Prince Edward Island. Click one of the links on the left to move directly to the corresponding section.

Hours of Work

The type of employee excluded from this legislature are truck drivers, ambulance drivers, fish processors, etc.

Leaves

Maternity Leave

Parental Leave

Voting Leave

Bereavement Leave

Compassionate Care Leave

Holidays

According to the Canadian Labour Standards Code, whenever the following holidays land on a Saturday or Sunday, New Year's Day, Canada Day, Christmas Day the employer must grant his or her employee a holiday with pay on the next working day immediately preceding or following the holiday, providing that the holiday is a provincial requirement. If a statutory holiday is worked on a regularly scheduled work day then the employee must receive either their regular pay plus time and a half or their regular wages plus a day off with pay before their annual vacation.

According to the Retail Business Holidays Act, retail business practices are prohibited on a holiday such as Boxing Day, Christmas Day, Good Friday, Labour Day, Thanksgiving Day, Remembrance Day, New Year's Day and every Sunday. The exceptions are the last Sunday in November and all Sundays in December that are prior to Christmas Day -- these days are specifically excluded. On these Sundays, retail businesses are permitted to operate.

Terminations

Required Notice

Group Termination

For group terminations there is no provincial legislation stating required notice periods.

Worker's Compensation

Assessable Earnings:

Included

Excluded

Pay Statements

For Prince Edward Island the pay is required at least every 16 days. At most this pay can exclude 5 working days up to the day that the pay goes out.

Prince Edward Island's pay statement must contain the following:

1. Name of employee
2. Name of employer
3. Address of employer
4. Gross earnings
5. Net pay
6. Any other payments or allowances
7. Total hours worked
8. Rate of pay
9. Deductions and reasons for those deductions
10. Dates of pay periods

Minimum Wages

The province of Prince Edward Island has one wage rate standard as follows:

The maximum amounts that may be deducted from the wages of an employee where the employer furnishes board and lodging are as follows:

Minimum Age

A child under 16 is permitted to be hired as long as the work is not in any way harmful to the child.

Unless there is special permission provided, an employer cannot hire a child under 16 for more than three hours on a school day or eight hours on any other day. The child is also not allowed to work more than 40 hours in a week or work any hours between 11:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. Work during regular school hours is not permitted with the exceptions being that of a recognized apprenticeship or vocational training program.

Vacationable Earnings

Included

Excluded

Provincial Health

All residents who register with the Hospital and Medical Services Plans are covered after three months of residence in the province. Program funded by the federal and provincial taxes, so no premiums are required by the employee or the employer.