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)
- 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)
- 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)
Materials on this page were funded in part by the former Alberta Human Rights Education and Multiculturalism Fund (HREMF). This project was a result of a research project funded by HREMF. The research report is available here.