Legislation
2024 payroll holidays
The table below shows you all of the federal and regional holidays in 2024 that may impact your payroll. Bank holidays won't impact your scheduled pay runs as we take statutory holidays into account when we calculate payroll input due dates and pay ...
2023 payroll holidays
The table below shows you all of the federal and regional holidays in 2023 that may impact your payroll. Banking holidays won't impact your scheduled pay runs as we take statutory holidays into account when we calculate payroll input due dates and ...
Leave of absence by province
Employees in Canada are entitled to leaves of absence away from work for family events, unexpected circumstances, and civil duties such as voting. Some leave policies are governed nationally, while most other leaves are set by provincial legislation. ...
Canada Pension Plan (CPP) and Employment Insurance (EI) rates
We've compiled some key CPP and EI figures in the tables below as a helpful reference for when you're reviewing payroll deductions for your organization. Note that these figures are subject to change and that the most up-to-date numbers can be found ...
What are the regulations around sick leave?
Employers may offer above and beyond the legislated number of paid and unpaid sick days and may supplement them with pay; an employer may not deduct sick pay from a future paycheque. Sick days generally do not transfer from year to year, and unpaid ...
What are the regulations around paid breaks?
In general, an unpaid break becomes a paid break in the event that an employer requires an employee to work through the break, or the employer puts some kind of restriction on the break (such as not permitting employees to leave the property). In ...
What are discretionary bonuses?
What is a discretionary bonus? At its most basic, a discretionary bonus is a bonus paid out that has no specific criteria. As an example - if an employer offers a Team Lead a bonus when her department's sales exceed 15% over the previous quarter, ...
When do I have to pay overtime?
What is overtime? All jurisdictions in Canada have provisions set aside for what constitutes overtime pay. When an employee works over a set number of hours in a day or hours in a week, his or her employer is required to pay for that time at a rate ...
When are remittances due?
About Remitting As an employer, you are required by the Canadian Revenue Agency (the CRA) to remit the Canadian Pension Plan (CPP) contributions, Employment Insurance (EI) premiums, and income tax taken from your employee's income, as well as the ...
What earnings are included in Stat Pay calculations?
In Rise, there are thirteen standard system earnings and each have a default setting to indicate whether it is stat pay eligible or not. Some regions differ from the default. In the table below, if a region has no setting (the cell is blank), the ...
What if a terminated employee owes the company vacation?
Asking employee to return the overpayment If an employee takes more vacation than they have earned, you can request that they pay it back upon leaving. If this was not discussed prior to the employee leaving the company, the employee is not ...
What earnings are vacationable in my region?
"Y" = included, "N" = excluded, "-" = not applicable Regular Earnings Fed BC AB SK MB ON QC NB PE NS NL YK NT NU Call-in pay Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Overtime Y Y N Y N Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Retroactive Pay Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Shift premium Y ...