Bill 247 explained in plain English
Paid Personal Emergency Leave Now Act, 2021
Ontario legislature bill summary, status, timeline, sponsor, votes, and official sources.
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This bill amends the Employment Standards Act, 2000, to provide employees with up to 10 paid days of personal emergency leave annually for specified personal or family health-related reasons.
Bill 247, the Paid Personal Emergency Leave Now Act, 2021, proposes changes to Ontario's Employment Standards Act, 2000. It aims to establish up to 10 paid days of personal emergency leave per year for employees. This leave can be used for personal illness, injury, medical emergencies, or for similar situations concerning specified family members. The bill also specifies how this leave pay is calculated and what kind of evidence an employer can request from an employee.
- Amends the Employment Standards Act, 2000, to create a new personal emergency leave provision.
- Establishes that employees who have worked for an employer for at least one week are entitled to personal emergency leave.
- Provides for up to 10 paid days of personal emergency leave per calendar year.
- Specifies the reasons for which personal emergency leave can be taken, including personal illness, injury, or medical emergencies, and similar situations concerning certain family members.
- Defines 'personal emergency leave pay' and outlines how it is calculated, including circumstances involving overtime or public holidays.
- Allows employers to request reasonable evidence of entitlement to the leave, but prohibits requiring a certificate from a qualified health practitioner.
- Repeals existing provisions for sick leave, family responsibility leave, and bereavement leave, replacing them with the new personal emergency leave.
- Employees in Ontario who have been employed for at least one week.
- Employers in Ontario.
- Employees have the right to up to 10 paid days of personal emergency leave per year.
- Employees who have been employed for less than one week are entitled to unpaid personal emergency leave, which counts towards paid leave once they reach one week of employment.
- Employees must advise their employer they are taking leave, as soon as possible if the leave must begin before notification.
- Employers must provide pay for any paid days of leave taken, calculated based on regular wages or a prescribed method.
- Employers cannot require a certificate from a qualified health practitioner as evidence for the leave.
- Employers may require other reasonable evidence for the leave.
- The Act comes into force on the day it receives Royal Assent.
- The bill introduces 'personal emergency leave pay', which is defined and affects the calculation of 'regular wages'.
- Employees are entitled to pay for paid leave days, which would be wages they would have earned or a specific calculation for performance-related wages.
- The bill does not specify the exact cost to employers, only the method of calculating the pay for the leave.
- The bill text does not explicitly detail specific penalties for non-compliance. Enforcement would likely fall under the general provisions of the Employment Standards Act, 2000.
- The bill mentions that certain circumstances for health practitioners or calculation methods for leave pay may be prescribed, but these are not detailed in the provided text.
- The exact number of days for employees employed for less than one week is not specified beyond being 'unpaid days of leave'.
- The bill does not specify if the 10 paid days reset at the beginning of each calendar year or if there is a carry-over provision.
The bill amends various parts of this Act, including definitions and specific sections related to leave entitlements.
Source: Sections 1, 2, 3, and 5
Adds a definition for 'personal emergency leave pay' and changes the definition of 'regular wages' to include 'personal emergency leave pay'.
Source: Section 1 (1) and 1 (2)
Replaces the mention of 'sick leave, family responsibility leave, bereavement leave' with 'personal emergency leave'.
Source: Section 2
These sections related to sick leave, family responsibility leave, and bereavement leave are repealed and replaced with a new section establishing personal emergency leave.
Source: Section 3
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