You have rights as an employee.
Overview of Rights | Minimum Employment Standards | If Your Employment Ends | Discrimination & Bullying | Occupational Health & Safety | Getting More Help
Overview of Rights
- 10 Rights at Work You Probably Didn’t Know You Have in Alberta (article)
- 11 Alberta Workplace Rights Most People Think They Have but Don’t (article)
Minimum Employment Standards
- General information about employment standards (FAQs)
- General holidays and holiday pay (FAQs)
- Hours of work (FAQs)
- Maternity and parental leave (FAQs)
- Job-protected leaves (FAQs)
- Overtime (FAQs)
- Pay – minimum wage and deductions (FAQs)
- Termination and temporary lay-off (FAQs)
- Vacations and vacation pay (FAQs)
- Employment contracts (FAQs)
- Difference between employees and contractors (FAQs)
- Enforcement of employment standards (FAQs)
- Your Rights at Work in Alberta – Employment Standards Code (infographic)
If Your Employment Ends
- Human Rights in the Workplace: Termination of Employment (info sheet and on-demand webinar)
- Droits de la personne en milieu de travail: Cessation d’emploi (fiche d’information)
- You’ve Lost Your Job … Now What? (info sheet)
- Things to Know When You’ve Lost Your Job (info sheet)
- Employment Insurance and Job Loss (info sheet)
- Termination and temporary lay-off – employment standards (FAQs)
- If Your Employment Ends – Laws for Tenants in Alberta (info sheet)
Discrimination & Bullying
- Human Rights in the Workplace: What are human rights? (info sheet and on-demand webinar)
- Droits de la personne en milieu de travail: Les droits de la personne, qu’est-ce que c’est? (fiche d’information)
- Human Rights in the Workplace: Resolving Disputes (info sheet and on-demand webinar)
- Droits de la personne en milieu de travail: Résolution des différends (fiche d’information)
- Discrimination & Bullying (FAQs)
- Alberta Human Rights Act – discrimination at work (infographic)
- Duty to Accommodate – what you and your employer should know (infographic)
- Sexual Violence in the Workplace (info sheet)
- 9 Things You Shouldn’t Be Asked in a Job Interview (article)
- Some Jerks Don’t Grow Out of It: 10 Tips for Handling an Office Bully (article)
- Would You Recognize Workplace Discrimination? 9 Examples of What it Could Look Like (article)
Occupational Health & Safety
Getting More Help
Still looking for more information? Try searching LawNow’s collection of articles about various employment law topics.
- Directory of resources in Alberta (LawCentral Alberta) (French)
- Alberta Employment Standards (Government of Alberta)
- Alberta Human Rights Commission
- Occupational Health and Safety (Government of Alberta)
- Temporary Foreign Workers (Government of Alberta)
- Workers’ Resource Centre (help with employment issues)
- Alberta Workers’ Health Centre (legal information about safe and healthy workplace)