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Legislative Roundup
Changes in payroll laws and regulations
from across Canada
News in Brief pg. 4
Many Canadians living pay to pay,
not saving enough: Survey | WSIB
to increase earnings ceiling in 2016|
Average weekly earnings up in June
Ask an expert pg. 5
What is 'scramble
parking'?|Keeping TD1s
up to date every year|
Bonus payments
and death benefi ts
Self-employed? pg. 3
2 recent cases in Ontario
highlight the two-step
process used when it
comes to defi ning workers
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Federal Federal
election election
promises promises
We take a look at We take a look at
where the parties stand where the parties stand
on payroll-related issues on payroll-related issues
BY SHEILA BRAWN
CANADIANS go to the polls on Oct. 19 and
each of the main parties has made a number
of promises, many with implications for pay-
roll departments. Here is a look at where the
Conservatives, the New Democratic Party
(NDP), the Liberals and the Green Party
stand on payroll-related issues.
Canada Pension Plan (CPP)
The NDP, Liberals and Green Party are
all calling for increasing CPP benefits,
with the Greens advocating for phasing
in a doubling of the plan's target income
Looking ahead
From cloud-based computing to social
media apps, technology is changing payroll
BY JAMES PLETT
AS THE CORNERSTONE of any company, it is integral for payroll
to get beyond the most basic of employee expectations (such as elec-
tronic funds transfer (EFT) payments and emailed paystubs) and
instead meet and match future employee expectations by moving
payroll forward and imagining not how payroll needs to be, at a bare
minimum, but what it should be.
More cloud-based
The future of payroll is definitely cloud-based. There is no longer
any need for payroll to require in-house, desktop-based software.
Ontario
Reminder: Government implemented
minimum wage hikes on Oct. 1
The general minimum wage rate in Ontario rose from $11 an hour
to $11.25 on Oct. 1. It was one of a number of minimum wage in-
creases in the province.
The rate for students who are under 18 and who work fewer than
28 hours a week (or more than 28 hours during school vacation)
rose from $10.30 an hour to $10.55. The rate for liquor servers in-
creased from $9.55 an hour to $9.80. The minimum wage rate paid
to homeworkers went up from $12.10 an hour to $12.40.
see EMPLOYEES on page 6
Prime Minister Stephen Harper speaks at Laurel Steel on a campaign stop in Burlington, Ont.,
in September. Each of the parties is making payroll-related promises before the election.
Credit:
Reuters
