Canada Labour Code
Sections and provisions with full text and the judgments that cite each one.
Section 251.19 — Cooperatives
For the purposes of section 251.18 and subsection 257(3), cooperatives shall be deemed to be corporations.
Section 252 — Information and returns
Every employer shall furnish any information that the Head may require that relate to their employees, including their wages, their hours of work and their general holidays, annual vacations and…
Section 253 — Notice to furnish information
Where the Head is authorized to require a person to furnish information under this Part or the regulations, the Head may require the information to be furnished by a notice to that effect served by…
Section 253.1 — Copy — employee
An employer must, within the first 30 days of an employee’s employment, provide the employee with a copy of any materials that the Head makes available and that contains information respecting…
Section 253.2 — Employment statement
An employer must, within the first 30 days of an employee’s employment, provide the employee with a written statement containing information relating to their employment that is prescribed by…
Section 254 — Pay statement
An employer shall, at the time of making any payment of wages to an employee, furnish the employee with a statement in writing setting out the period for which the payment is made; the number of…
Section 254.1 — General rule
No employer shall make deductions from wages or other amounts due to an employee, except as permitted by or under this section. The permitted deductions are those required by a federal or provincial…
Section 255 — Orders of Minister combining federal works, undertakings and businesses
Where associated or related federal works, undertakings and businesses are operated by two or more employers having common control or direction, the Minister may, after affording to the employers a…
Section 256 — Offences and punishment
Every person is guilty of an offence who contravenes any provision of this Part or the regulations, other than a provision of Division IX, subsection 239.1(2), 239.2(1), 251.001(9) or 252(2) or any…
Section 257 — Procedure
A complaint or information under this Part may relate to one or more offences by one employer in respect of one or more of his employees. Proceedings in respect of an offence under this Part may be…
Section 258 — Order to pay arrears of wages
Where an employer has been convicted of an offence under this Part in respect of any employee, the convicting court shall, in addition to any other punishment, order the employer to pay to the…
Section 259 — Failure to comply with order
An employer that fails to comply with an order of a convicting court made under section 258 is guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction and liable to a fine of not more than $1,000 for…
Section 259.1 — Imprisonment precluded in certain cases
Where a person is convicted of an offence under this Part punishable on summary conviction, no imprisonment may be imposed as punishment for the offence or in default of payment of any fine imposed…
Section 260 — Identity of complainants
If a person makes a complaint under this Part and requests that their name and identity be withheld, their name and identity must not be disclosed unless the disclosure is necessary for the purposes…
Section 261 — Civil remedy
No civil remedy of an employee against his employer for arrears of wages is suspended or affected by this Part.
Section 262 — Orders
Where by this Part or the regulations the Minister is authorized to make any order in respect of any matter, the order may be made to apply generally or in particular cases or to apply to classes of…
Section 263 — Regulations
Despite anything in this Part, the Governor in Council may make any regulations that the Governor in Council considers necessary respecting the establishment and operation of one or more pilot…
Section 263.1 — Repeal
Unless they are repealed earlier, regulations made under section 263 are repealed on the fifth anniversary of the day on which they come into force.
Section 264 — Regulations
The Governor in Council may make regulations for carrying out the purposes of this Part and, without restricting the generality of the foregoing, may make regulations requiring employers to keep…
Section 265 — Provincial Crown corporations
The Governor in Council may by regulation direct that this Part applies in respect of any employment, or any class or classes of employment, on or in connection with a work or undertaking set out in…
Section 266 — Exclusion from application
The Governor in Council may by regulation exclude, in whole or in part, from the application of any of the provisions of this Part any employment, or any class or classes of employment, on or in…
Section 267 — Application of certain provisions
Subsections 121.2(3) to (8) apply, with such modifications as the circumstances require, in respect of a regulation made pursuant to subsection 266(2) except that the references to “subsection (2)”…
Section 268 — Definitions
The following definitions apply in this Part. department means a department in, or other portion of, the federal public administration to which Part II applies, as provided under subsection 123(2). (…
Section 269 — Purpose of Part
The purpose of this Part is to establish, as an alternative to the existing penal system and as a supplement to existing enforcement measures, a fair and efficient penalty system to promote…
Section 270 — Regulations
The Governor in Council may make regulations designating as a violation that may be proceeded with in accordance with this Part the contravention of any specified provision of Part II or III or of…
Section 271 — Powers regarding notices of violation
The Head may establish the form of notices of violation; designate persons, or classes of persons, who are authorized to issue notices of violation; and establish a short-form description for each…
Section 272 — Delegation
Subject to any terms and conditions specified by the Minister, the Head may delegate to any qualified person or class of persons any of the powers the Head is authorized to exercise or any of the…
Section 273 — Violations
Every person or department that contravenes or fails to comply with a provision, direction, order or condition designated by regulations made under paragraph 270 (1)(a) commits a violation and is…
Section 274 — Liability of parties to violation
If a corporation or a department commits a violation, any of the following persons who directed, authorized, assented to, acquiesced in or participated in the commission of the violation is a party…
Section 275 — Proof of violation — employees
In any proceedings under this Part against a person or a department in relation to a violation, it is sufficient proof of the violation to establish that it was committed by an employee or agent or…
Section 276 — Notice of violation
If a person designated under paragraph 271 (b) has reasonable grounds to believe that a person or a department has committed a violation, the designated person may issue a notice of violation and…
Section 277 — Certain defences not available
A person or department named in a notice of violation does not have a defence by reason that the person or the department exercised due diligence to prevent the violation; or reasonably and honestly…
Section 278 — Continuing violation
A violation that is committed or continued on more than one day constitutes a separate violation for each day on which it is committed or continued.
Section 279 — Violation or offence
Proceeding with any act or omission as a violation under this Part precludes proceeding with it as an offence under Part II or III, and proceeding with it as an offence under Part II or III precludes…
Section 280 — Limitation period
No notice of violation in respect of a violation may be issued more than two years after the day on which the subject-matter of the violation arises.
Section 281 — Request for review
A person or a department that is served with a notice of violation may, within 30 days after the day on which the notice is served, or within any longer period that the Head allows, make a request,…
Section 282 — Variation or cancellation of notice of violation
At any time before a request for review in respect of a notice of violation comes before the Head, a person designated under paragraph 271(b) may cancel the notice of violation or correct an error in…
Section 283 — Review
On receipt of a request for review made under section 281, the Head shall conduct the review of the notice of violation. The Head may make rules governing the procedure with respect to reviews under…
Section 284 — Object of review
The Head shall determine, as the case may be, whether the amount of the penalty for the violation was determined in accordance with the regulations or whether the applicant committed the violation,…
Section 285 — Appeal
A person or a department may appeal a decision referred to in section 284 to the Board, in writing, within 15 days after the day on which the decision is served. The request for appeal shall contain…
Section 286 — Head informed of appeal
The Board shall inform the Head in writing when an appeal is brought under subsection 285(1) and provide the Head with a copy of the request for appeal. The Head shall, on request of the Board,…
Section 287 — Object of appeal
In an appeal under this Part, the Board shall determine, as the case may be, whether the amount of the penalty for the violation was determined in accordance with the regulations or whether the…
Section 288 — Wages
An employee who has been summoned by the Board to attend at an appeal proceeding under this Part and who attends is entitled to be paid by the employer at the employee’s regular rate of wages for the…
Section 289 — Payment
If a person or a department pays the penalty set out in a notice of violation, the person or the department is considered to have committed the violation and proceedings in respect of it are ended.
Section 290 — Failure to act
A person or a department that neither pays a penalty imposed under this Part nor requests a review or an appeal in the specified time is considered to have committed the violation and is liable for…
Section 291 — Debt to Her Majesty
A penalty constitutes a debt due to Her Majesty in right of Canada and is recoverable as such in the Federal Court or any other court of competent jurisdiction. No proceedings to recover the debt may…
Section 292 — Certificate
The Head may issue a certificate certifying the unpaid amount of any debt referred to in subsection 291(1). Registration in the Federal Court or in any other court of competent jurisdiction of a…
Section 293 — Admissibility of documents
In the absence of evidence to the contrary, a document that appears to be a notice of violation issued under subsection 276 (1) is presumed to be authentic and is proof of its contents in any…
Section 294 — Burden of proof
If the facts of a violation are reviewed or appealed, the person who issued the notice of violation shall establish, on a balance of probabilities, that the applicant or the appellant committed the…
Section 295 — Publication
The Head may, subject to the regulations, make public the name of an employer who committed a violation under this Part, the nature of the violation, the amount of the penalty imposed and any other…