Employment Standards Act and Regulation amendments
Last updated on March 6, 2024Updated: March 6, 2024
Visit the Guide to the Employment Standards Act and Regulation to help provide a clear interpretation.
Find out what's been changed or updated through a bill or Order in Council (OIC) in the Employment Standards Act and Regulation from May 19, 2021 onwards.
OIC 0109-2024 – Commencement March 6, 2024
OIC 0209-2024 – Better Regulations for British Columbians (PDF, 1MB)
Updates have been made to the following pages:
OIC 0216-2023 – Commencement January 1, 2024
OIC 0216-2023 – Minimum wage increases (PDF, 621KB)
Updates have been made to the following pages:
Bill 48 – Commencement November 30, 2023
Bill 48 – 2023: Labour Statutes Amendment Act, 2023
Updates have been made to the following pages:
OIC 0332-2023 – Commencement June 2, 2023
OIC 0332-2023 – Professions & Occupations Excluded from the Act (PDF, 569KB)
Updates have been made to the following pages:
OIC 0216-2023 – Commencement June 1, 2023
OIC 0216-2023 – Minimum wage increases (PDF, 621KB)
Updates have been made to the following pages:
OIC 0258-2023 – Commencement April 24, 2023
OIC 0258-2023 – Statutory holiday pay for silviculture and commission workers (PDF, 578KB)
Updates have been made to the following pages:
Bill 2 – Commencement March 9, 2023
Bill 2 – 2023: National Day for Truth and Reconciliation Act
Bill 2 Section 3
Updates have been made to the following pages:
OIC 0137-2023 – Commencement March 1, 2023
OIC 0137-2023 – Rules about licences (PDF, 570KB)
Updates have been made to the following pages:
OIC 0139-2022 – Commencement January 1, 2023
OIC 0139-2022 – Minimum wage increases (PDF, 579KB)
OIC Schedule 2, sections 1 and 2
Updates have been made to the following pages:
OIC 0512-2022 – Commencement January 1, 2023
OIC 0512-2022 – Hazardous work (PDF, 575KB)
OIC Schedule sections 1 and 2
Updates have been made to the following pages:
- Hiring Children – Hazardous Industry or Hazardous Work - Act Part 2, Section 9.1
- Section 126 – Evidence and burden of proof
- Section 127 – Power to make regulations
- Light Work - Regulation Part 7.1, Division 4
- Hazardous Work - Regulation Part 7.1, Division 5
- Transition – Employment of Children to Perform Hazardous Work - Regulation Part 8, Section 53
OIC 0652_2022 – Commencement December 1, 2022
OIC 0652-2022 – Hazardous work (PDF, 620KB)
Updates have been made to the following pages:
OIC 0157-2022 – Commencement March 30, 2022
OIC 0157-2022 – Gender-neutral language (PDF, 838KB)
OIC Schedule section 9
Updates have been made to the following pages:
Bill 19 – Commencement March 30, 2022
Bill 19 – 2022: Employment Standards Amendment Act, 2022
Bill 19 Sections 1 and 2
Updates have been made to the following pages:
OIC 0139-2022 – Commencement March 14, 2022
OIC 0139-2022 – Minimum wage increases (PDF, 579KB)
OIC Schedule 1, sections 1 to 3
Updates have been made to the following pages:
Bill 13 – Commencement January 1, 2022
Bill 13 – 2021: Employment Standards Amendment Act (No. 2), 2021
Bill 13 sections 1, 2 and 5
Updates have been made to the following pages:
OIC 0637-2021 – Commencement January 1, 2022
OIC 0637-2021 – Illness or injury leave (PDF, 673KB)
OIC Schedule section 1
Updates have been made to the following pages:
Bill 8 – Commencement October 15, 2021
Bill 8 – 2019: Employment Standards Amendment Act, 2019
Bill 8 sections 1 (b), 6, 10, 34 (a) and (b), 35 (d) and 38 are brought into force through OIC 0489-2021 (PDF, 593KB)
Updates have been made to the following pages:
OIC 0489-2021 – Commencement October 15, 2021
OIC 0489-2021 (PDF, 593KB)
OIC Schedule sections 1 to 10
Updates have been made to the following pages:
- Employment Standards Act & Regulation Definitions
- Registry Information - Regulation Part 3, Section 13
- Employees Excluded from the Act - Regulation Part 7, Section 32
- Guide to the Employment Standards Act and Regulation
- Exclusion from hiring children requirements - Regulation Part 7, Section 37.17
- Exclusion from written contract requirements for domestic workers - Regulation Part 7, Section 37.18
- Division 0.1 - Children (Less than 15 Years Old)
- Division 1 - Children (12 to 14 Years Old)
- Division 4 - Light Work
- Transition - Employment of Children - Regulation Part 8, Section 52
Bill 8 – Commencement August 15, 2021
Bill 8 – 2019: Employment Standards Amendment Act, 2019
Bill 8 sections 1 (a), 22 to 28, 33, 35 (e) and (f) and 42 are brought into force through OIC 0489-2021 (PDF, 593KB)
Updates have been made to the following pages:
- Employment Standards Act & Regulation Definitions
- Guide to the Employment Standards Act and Regulation
- Investigations Initiated by Director - Act Part 10, Section 73.1
- Complaint and Time Limit - Act Part 10, Section 74
- Investigations - Act Part 10, Section 76
- Oral Hearing Not Required - Act Part 10, Section 77.1
- Settlement Agreements - Act Part 10, Section 78
- Written Report - Act Part 10, Section 78.1
- Director Must Consider Written Report and Responses - Act Part 10, Section 78.2
- Service of Determinations, Demands, Notices and Reports - Act Part 14, Section 122
- Power to Make Regulations - Act Part 14, Section 127
Bill 13 – Commencement May 19, 2021
Bill 13 – 2021: Employment Standards Amendment Act (No. 2), 2021
Bill 13 sections 3 and 4
Updates have been made to the following pages: