On 30 June 2026, Prince Edward Island made changes to rules on hours of work, overtime and annual leave. Further, in Manitoba, eligible employees who have a child placed in their care through adoption or surrogacy may take up to 16 weeks of unpaid, job-protected “attachment leave”.
The proposed pay transparency legislation is progressing through Parliament and would introduce new pay transparency and reporting duties, a complaints filtering process for discrimination claims, and fines calculated as multiples of the guaranteed gross minimum wage.
Employees with a contractual retirement age below the state pension age of 66 can now notify their employer that they do not wish to retire, and the employer can enforce that retirement age only if it gives a reasoned written reply and can objectively justify doing so.
South Korea’s Supreme Court has ruled on what constitutes “wages”. Profit-sharing incentive linked to Economic Value Added does not constitute wages, while a productivity incentive linked to employees’ work performance does.