Below is a list of links to educational resources that help explain rights and obligations under the ESA.

Tools and calculators
These web-based tools help employers and employees understand ESA rights and obligations:

ES self-service tool
Helps employers and employees understand and determine rights and obligations under the ESA for some employment standards, including minimum wage, payment of wages, hours of work, overtime and public holidays.

Guide to employment standards special rules and exemptions
Provides information on job categories and employees that are either not covered by certain parts of the ESA or that are subject to special rules.

Hours of work and overtime tool
Helps employers and employees understand and calculate hours of work and overtime entitlements.

Public holiday pay calculator
Helps employers and employees calculate public holiday pay entitlements.

Severance tool
Helps employers and employees calculate severance pay entitlements.

Termination tool
Helps employers and employees understand and calculate entitlements to notice of termination and termination pay.

Educational videos
These educational videos help employers and employees understand their rights and obligations under the ESA.

Know your rights
Provides an overview of the ESA’s core standards and sets out where to find additional information on each standard.

Illegal deductions from wages
Helps employers and employees understand what constitutes an illegal deduction from wages. This video is available in eight languages in addition to English and French.

What to expect during an employment standards inspection
Helps employers understand what to expect during an employment standards inspection and how to best be prepared.

Filing a claim
Helps employees understand what to expect when filing an employment standard claim.

Employer portal
Provides employers with an overview of the portal features, including how to get access and use the portal.

Tips and other gratuities
Helps employers and employees understand their rights and obligations with respect to tips and other gratuities under the ESA

Claimant portal
Provides claimants with an overview of the portal features, including how to sign-up and use the portal.

Information sessions
The ministry, in partnership with organizations across Ontario, provides general overview information sessions on the Employment Standards Act (ESA).

These information sessions are delivered by subject matter experts from the ministry and cover topics such as hours of work, public holidays, leaves of absence and more..

Please check the calendar below and contact the host organization directly to sign up for a session near you. This calendar is updated as new information sessions are scheduled.

Date/time Location Organization Topic Register
July 20, 2021
2:00 pm to 4:00 pm

Webinar Ministry of Labour, Training and Skills Development Keeping Ontario Safe- What you need to know about occupational health and safety and employment standards related to COVID-19covid 19 Eventbrite Registration
August 10, 2021
10:00 am to 12:00 pm

Webinar Ministry of Labour, Training and Skills Development Keeping Ontario Safe- What you need to know about occupational health and safety and employment standards related to COVID-19covid 19 Eventbrite Registration
If you would like to request an information session about an ESA topic outside of the sessions listed in the calendar, please email EOP@Ontario.ca. Please note you must have a minimum of 10 attendees.