Your guide to the Ontario Employment Standards Act (Apr. 2025 update)

Ontario has updated their guide to help employers better understand the upcoming changes to the Employment Standards Act.

This guide provides information and dates for areas such as; 

Placement of a child leave (adoption or surrogacy)
Long-term illness leave
New rules about employment information
Rules and exemptions for job postings
Medical notes and sick leave
ESA maximum fines
Definition of employee
Deductions from wages
Payment of wages — direct deposit
Vacation pay agreements
Tips or other gratuities — methods of payment
Tips sharing policy

Some of these changes only affect firms with 25 or more staff, but could be implemented earlier (such as job postings) to be on the same level as the employers over 25.


See the guide here:  https://www.ontario.ca/document/your-guide-employment-standards-act-0/recent-changes