Ontario Leave & Compensation
Minimum Wage: General Minimum Wage: $17.60 per hour
Separate Minimum Wages:
Students under 18: $16.60 per hour.
Hunting & fishing guides: $88.05 per day (< 5 consecutive hours in a day).
Hunting & fishing guides: $176.15 per day (5 or more hours in a day, whether or not consecutive).
Homeworkers: $19.35 per hour.
Standard Work Hours: Weekly Overtime – All hours worked over 44 hours in a week.
Sick Days: 3 days a year for sick leave if employee has worked for employer for at least 2 consecutive weeks
Average Workers Comp Assessment Rate 2026: $1.23 per $100
Workers’ Comp Maximum Assessable/Insurable Earnings 2026: Not yet announced ($117,000 in 2025)
(all leaves are unpaid unless specified otherwise):
- 17 weeks' pregnancy leave
- 63 weeks' parental leave (61 weeks for mothers who also take pregnancy leave)
- 104 weeks' child death leave
- 104 weeks' crime-related child disappearance leave
- 37 weeks' critically ill child leave
- 17 weeks' critically ill adult leave, declared emergency leave for as long as the declared emergency lasts
- 8 weeks' family caregiver leave
- 17 weeks' family medical leave to care for an adult
- 37 weeks' family medical leave to care for a minor child, infectious disease emergency leave for as long as the declared emergency lasts
- 13 weeks' organ donor's leave, reservist leave for as long as necessary for employee to perform military reservist duties
Vacation:
- Must work 12 months before entitled to vacation time.
- Entitled to 2 weeks of vacation after each of the first year of employment and must be paid at least 4% of vacationable earnings.
- After 5 years of employment, entitlement is 3 weeks with 6% vacationable earnings.
Statutory Holidays:
New Year’s Day, Family Day, Good Friday, Victoria Day, Canada Day, Labour Day, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day and Boxing Day.*Easter Monday is for government employees only.
Statutory Holiday Pay:
Regular wages earned by the employee in the 4 work weeks before the work week with the public holiday plus all of the vacation pay payable to the employee for the 4 work weeks before the work week with the public holiday, divided by 20