Enforcement of Employment Standards

• Author: Paul Wearing
• Pages: 51-55

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CHAPTER EIGHT

Enforcement of Employment Standards

What You Should Know

The law provides a cost-free procedure for employees to enforce their

rights against employers to force them to comply with the law. In fact,

employees who wish to f‌ile a complaint against their employer for an al-

leged violation of the Ontario Employment Standards Act, 20001 can f‌ind

assistance at Ministry of Labour intake oces.

The law is administered by the Ontario Ministry of Labour and enforced

by employment standards ocers responsible to the Director of Employ-

ment Standards. Employment standards ocers have the authority to do

the following:

• inspect workplaces for compliance with the law

• enter premises without a warrant

• investigate complaints

• order an employer to produce records

• interrogate persons in furtherance of an inspection or investigation

• convene fact-f‌inding meetings

• issue orders to pay to employers

• issue compliance tickets imposing f‌ines on employers for failing to

post the current Ministry of Labour poster What You Should Know

About the Ontario Employment Standards Act and provide copies to

each employee or failing to post the Ontario Workplace Safety and