Ontario. Employment Practices Branch

Identity area

Type of entity

Lower-level Ontario government office (type C)

Authorized form of name

Ontario. Employment Practices Branch

Parallel form(s) of name

    Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules

    • Employment Practices Branch

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      Identifiers for corporate bodies

      Description area

      Dates of existence

      1991-

      History

      This branch is the successor of the Labour Standards Branch (1963-1968), and the Employment Standards Branch (1969-1991), although the division in which the branch was located has altered frequently. In 1991 it was renamed the Employment Practices Branch and placed within the newly created Operations Division.

      Places

      Legal status

      Functions, occupations and activities

      The Employment Practices Branch overviews and coordinates the Employment Standards Program, providing policy and technical support to the Ministry's regional offices, which administer and enforce the Employment Standards Act.

      The Act establishes the minimum terms and conditions of employment in Ontario; subjects addressed include the minimum wage, overtime pay, paid public holidays, vacation pay, equal pay for equal work, pregnancy and parental leave, hours of work, lie detector tests, termination pay, retail worker rights to refuse work on Sundays and paid holidays, seasonal employees, domestic workers, home workers and the women's garment industry.

      Address

      Internal structures/genealogy

      General context

      Relationships area

      Related entity

      Ontario. Ministry of Labour (1972-)

      Identifier of related entity

      AA43

      Category of relationship

      hierarchical

      Type of relationship

      Ontario. Ministry of Labour controls Ontario. Employment Practices Branch

      Dates of relationship

      1991-

      Description of relationship

      Related entity

      Ontario. Employment Standards Branch (1969-1991)

      Identifier of related entity

      CA1813

      Category of relationship

      temporal

      Type of relationship

      Ontario. Employment Standards Branch is the predecessor of Ontario. Employment Practices Branch

      Dates of relationship

      Description of relationship

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      Epithet

      Control area

      Authority record identifier

      CA1816

      Institution identifier

      Rules and/or conventions used

      RAD: Rules for Archival Description, 2nd edn (2008)

      Status

      Approved

      Level of detail

      Dates of creation, revision and deletion

      2026-11-16: migrated to AtoM

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          Sources

          KWIC Index to Government Services 2001

          Maintenance notes

          Archivist(s):
          John Dirks