Canadian Workplace Law Unit (Slide Show)

This slide show covers the entire workplace law unit to save you time. (Family law is available as a separate unit due to size.) Workplace law has 99 slides and is meant to interest students through practical examples that may impact their lives. It has lots of graphical aids (many self created) and video links to help explain concepts like the Rand formula. It also has some recent news releases and slides on current issues related to the workplace such as contract and precarious work. It even has an update on the doctor’s notes which is central to the time physicians have for patient care and the shortage of family doctors. Over the years, I have added lots of interesting details to consider in the slideshow and it is designed so that you can add cases or situations that would be helpful for you and your students each year.

I have found that the students are engaged with this approach and feel that this unit is crucial for their futures. I have also given them the ESA to read, with questions, but have found that is method is more fun for the students. (The ESA might be helpful for a supply teacher need.)

I have found that the suggestion to take lots of photos when they move into their first apartment or dorm helps to engage students considering their first apartment. By making the content relevant, such as breaks at work, or how they could get help if there are issues at their work, makes the learning relevant.

Pay
Taxes
Breaks
Unions/Levy/Wildcat strikes/Who is unionized/Target Ads (for no unions)
minimum and maximum temperature
sick notes
Covid
Accommodations
ESA
Paystubs
Slips, trips and falls,
Mouseland (class consideration for work conditions)
Child labour and health and safety changes over time
Sabrina’s Law
WSIB, long and short term disability, top ups
Precarious/Contract Work/Migrant Workers
Stocks/Shares (RIM)
Asbestos
(Child labour/rights of a child implemented in Canada)
Sweatshops)
Farm exceptions
Classroom changes
Unions gains for the workplace/Bigger union names
tax rate/poverty rate-T4’s

Hairnets and gloves
Holidays, Overtime, severance,
Wage gap
interns, volunteer work, ad language and ‘Canadian experience’ -asking for age
Sunshine list
Vacation pay

Torts
contracts
Will
Power of Attorney

Occupational Health an Safety Act (H&S)