All Canadians have the right to be treated fairly in the workplace, non-discrimination and abuse.
Law
The Labor code of Canada is the law of the federal government regulates the rights and responsibilities of labor of employers and workers in the field of federal management, such as banks and telecommunications companies. Most of the other professions are protected under the laws of the provinces and territories. Each province or territory has a law labor and employment, private related to pay fair wages, hours of work and working conditions.
The fair act The making of Canada and Program federal contractor requires employers to make efforts to improve employment opportunities for specific groups of people in Canada. They ask for the business and organization of federal administration to provide equal opportunities for women, indigenous people, people with disabilities and members of minority groups can be seen.
Rights of foreign workers
Canadian law protects all workers in Canada, including foreign workers. Foreign workers have the right to:
• Get paid for their work;
• Have safe workplace;
• Keep your passport and license of their labor.
On or before the first working day of you, your employer must give you a copy of the contract of your labor. The agreement should contain information about the profession, wages and working conditions of you. You and your employer must sign this agreement and it must be written in English or French.
In addition, your employer must give you reasonable notice before dismissal you. If not, they have to pay you money to terminate the contract, this clause is based on the time you worked for the employer it and depending on the province or territory in which you are working.
Health and safety at work
Users of your labor to provide a safe workplace and coaching you to perform their work safely. This includes training you how to use any equipment or machinery, and give you protection device, if necessary.
You can't be forced to do any work that you consider to be dangerous, and you can't be fired or refused to pay for refusing to work in these dangerous conditions.
If you report any hazards at the workplace, your employer must review it. You have the right to refuse to work until you and your boss agree that:
• Hazards are removed and issues no longer exist;
• You have been trained and equipped accordingly.
Workplace is not abuse
Employers of you also must make reasonable efforts to provide employees a workplace that is abuse. This means your employer or anyone representing your employer is not abuse physical, sexual, psychological or financial.
According to the website of the government of Canada, any behaviors that cause you fear, control, or isolate all can be abused. Some examples include:
• Physical harm
• Threatening or insulting
• Touch the body unintended
• Control where you can come and who can you meet
• Stealing your
• Take any or all of the money you are owed
• Receive and refused to return the passport, work permit or any identification other
• Force you to commit fraud
• The action or threatening to demote, to disciplinary measures or dismissal due to report to your employer about the non-compliance or complain about working conditions or abuse of you.
Where work does not have the phan discrimination
The employer may have to change your work environment or tasks of the employee to that employee can perform their job. This is supposed to meet, and it applies to the needs based on one of the base discrimination by the factor:
• National origin or ethnicity;
• Color;
• Religion;
• Age;
• Gender;
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• Disability;
• A project has been pardoned or suspended record.
Report issues employment
If you are required to perform hazardous work conditions, unsafe work or you get injured or sick because of his work, you should contact the office of safety and health at the workplace of the province or your territory to report a problem.
If you think that you are not paid a salary worthy of being treated unfairly or your employer do not respect the agreement with your employer, you should contact the office of standard employment, the provinces or territories of you.
Most of the provinces and territories offer the grant of compensation for workers, is payment to compensate for the lost wages when workers are injured or sick because of their work. Work your employer stop you claim for workers is illegal.
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