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Statutory Minimum Entitlement to Notice
The Ontario Employment Standards Act sets out the minimum notice for most employees, with the exception of federally regulated employees. Employees with at least three months service with the employer are entitled to the following minimum periods of notice based on their total years of service:
- one weeks' notice for less than one year's service;
- two weeks' notice for more than one year but less than three years service;
- three weeks' notice for three years or more but less than four years service;
and so on up to the maximum eight weeks' notice for eight years or more employment.
Where an employer terminates 50 or more employees within a 4-week period, the employer must provide the employees with proper notice:
| 50-200 |
8 weeks |
| 200-500 |
12 weeks |
| 500 or more |
16 weeks |
Employees who fall under federal jurisdiction, and who have completed at least three consecutive months of continuous employment, are entitled to two weeks written notice of termination or the payment of two weeks wages in lieu of notice, subject to certain special exceptions, under the Canada Labour Code.
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