2024-2025 Student Resource Handbook

28 For almost 70 years, the 16,000 men and women of the Power Workers' Union (PWU) have delivered clean, a ordable, safe and environmentally-resposible electricity to Ontario homes and businesses. 11 River Street Toronto, ON M5A 4C2 Phone: 416-392-2273 Email: foster@torontohumanesociety.com Foster Parents Needed Compass Group Canada Head O ce: 5560 Explorer Drive Mississauga, ONT L4W 5M3 905-568-4636 Toll Free 1-800-465-2203 Always looking for talent. Call us after your graduation Check Out our Career Web site for current job postings at: www.compass-canada.com or http://twitter.com/CompassCANJobs IF YOUR EMPLOYMENT INCLUDES TIPS AND OTHER GRATUITIES Employers can decide if tipping will be allowed in their businesses. If tipping is not accepted, the employer should make it clear to the customers that tips and other gratuities will not be accepted by employees or the employer. There is no requirement under the Employment Standards Act, 2000 (ESA) for an employer to establish regular periods for the distribution of tips and other gratuities to employees. However, the failure of an employer to distribute tips and other gratuities within a reasonable time frame could constitute the withholding of those tips and other gratuities. Whether such delays in the distribution of tips and other gratuities to the employees is reasonable will depend on the circumstances. Employers should distribute all the tips and other gratuities to employees in cash, cheque or direct deposit. Tips and other gratuities aren’t to be considered wages for the purposes of the ESA. They are not included when calculating minimum wage, termination pay, severance pay, vacation pay, public holiday pay or the regular rate used for calculating overtime pay. Your right to keep tips or other gratuities As of June 10, 2016, an employer generally cannot withhold, make deductions from, or make employees return their tips and other gratuities except as permitted by the ESA. Employers are also prohibited to make deductions, etc., from an employees’ tips and other gratuities for such things as spillage, breakage, losses or damage. Deductions from tips or other gratuities Generally there are only three kinds of deductions that can be made from an employee’s tips or other gratuities: • Agreed pooling of tips or other gratuities • Any Collective Agreements that are in place • If any outstanding court orders exists Managers participation in tip pooling arrangements Managers are allowed to keep tips and gratuities they may receive themselves, and generally can participate in all tip pooling arrangements if their employers’ policy permits them to do so. Employers are allowed to keep the tips and other gratuities that they receive themselves.