What are the rights and responsibilities of employers and employees?

Employers have the right to hire whom they see fit to hire, as long as they do not reject the candidates based on faith, appearance, or political preference.


Wrong, ON:LY employers larger than 14 employees must ignore race, sex, age, religion and disability - not political pref or appearance.


They also have the right to set out in their contracts what the working hours are, what type of work is to be done, and the duties.


Wrong. Employer unilateral policies set rules, NOT negotiated contracts to which employees are voluntary parties.



Employers' responsibilities include taking most or full responsibility for the establishment, so if an employee does something which accidentally injures a customer, or the employee injures him or herself, the employer is liable. The reasoning in this is that as an employer, the one with most power, are they not responsible for training the employee and making sure they do not injure customers? Also, had the employee not been working for the employer, he or she would not have suffered the injury, which is why the employer is ultimately responsible.

Employers may also discharge employees without notice if the employees constantly break rules, disrespects the employers, and generally makes the business unoperable.


Wrong. Employers can dismiss employees for godd reason, bad reason or no reason, as long as no statute is violated.


Employees have the right to breaks and lunches, and to take sick leave.

Wrong. No such law exists.


No employer can threaten to discharge an employee because he or she cannot show up at work due to medical reasons.

Wrong. No such law exists. Large employers must accommodate employees who have premanent medical impairments, NOT those merely sick. Employers are NOT prohibited from dismissing disabled employees who can no longer perform all essentila job functions.


Along the same line, employers can't force an employee to do certain types of work knowing that the employee has a pre-existing medical problem (I.e. lifting heavy stuff when the employee had stated beforehand with doctor's note that their back has been damaged before and thus can't run the risk of lifting heavy thing.

Employers can demand that employees perform all job functions the employer calls essential, or be dismissed.


Employees can also claim for damages if they injured themselves on the job, but it must be shown that had it not been for the job, they would not have gotten hurt.

Employees also have the right to sue if they were unjustly dismissed, such as suddenly being told they're fired, without compensation.

No such law exists. Employees can complain to government agencies only if dismissed becasue of race, sex, age, disability or age ... NOT "unjustly". The government agency decides if the employee may sue.


Employers don't need to give a reason for firing, but they do have to give at least 2 weeks notice, or a Leave Pay (paying the amount they would have made had they not been fired in order to make them leave).


Wrong, there is no such statute.

This is just a brief outline, check your government's Employment Act for more details.