Bill 49 explained in plain English
Protecting Employees' Tips Act, 2013
Ontario legislature bill summary, status, timeline, sponsor, votes, and official sources.
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Official Legislative Assembly of Ontario snapshot for 40th Parliament, 2nd Session. Representative vote breakdowns appear when the Assembly publishes an Ayes and Nays page for the bill.
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The Protecting Employees' Tips Act, 2013, amends the Employment Standards Act, 2000, to prohibit employers from taking any portion of an employee's tips or other gratuities.
This bill amends the Employment Standards Act, 2000, to add rules about tips and other gratuities. It states that employers cannot take any part of an employee's tips or other gratuities. The bill also gives itself a short title: the Protecting Employees' Tips Act, 2013. The Act came into effect on the day it received Royal Assent.
- Prohibits employers from taking any portion of an employee's tips or other gratuities.
- Amends the Employment Standards Act, 2000, by adding a new Part (Part V.1) related to tips and other gratuities.
- Establishes the short title of the Act as the Protecting Employees' Tips Act, 2013.
- States that the Act comes into force on the day it receives Royal Assent.
- Employers in Ontario
- Employees in Ontario who receive tips or other gratuities
- Employees have the right to retain all of their tips and other gratuities.
- Employers have an obligation not to take any portion of an employee's tips or other gratuities.
- The Act came into force on the day it received Royal Assent.
- The bill text does not specify any penalties or enforcement mechanisms for employers who violate this provision.
Adds Part V.1, which prohibits employers from taking any portion of an employee's tips or other gratuities.
Source: Section 1
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