11. An employer is exempted from the application of section 178 of the Act in respect of any of the employer’s employees who are being trained on the job if those employees are apprentices registered under a provincial apprenticeship Act and are being paid in accordance with a schedule of rates established under such an Act.

11.1 An employer shall pay an employee who reports for work at the call of the employer wages for not less than three hours of work at the employee’s regular rate of wages, whether or not the employee is called on to perform any work after so reporting for work.

12. An employer shall, at least 30 days prior to determining a year of employment under paragraph (b) of the definition “year of employment” in section 183 of the Act, notify in writing the affected employees of

• (a) the dates of commencement and expiry of the year of employment; and

• (b) the method of calculating the length of vacation and the vacation pay for a period of employment of less than 12 consecutive months.

• 13. (1) Where an employer has determined a year of employment under paragraph (b) of the definition “year of employment” in section 183 of the Act, the employer shall, within ten months after the commencement date or after each subsequent anniversary date, as the case may be, of the determined year of employment, grant a vacation with vacation pay to each employee who has completed less than 12 months of continuous employment at that date.

• (2) The vacation granted to an employee pursuant to subsection (1) shall be the number of weeks of the employee’s vacation entitlement under section 184 of the Act divided by 12 and multiplied by the number of completed months of employment from and including

  • (a) the date employment began, for an employee who became an employee after the commencement date of the year of employment referred to in subsection (1); or

  • (b) the commencement date of the year of employment previously in effect, for all other employees.

• (3) Where an employee is entitled to an annual vacation and there is no agreement between the employer and employee concerning when the vacation may be taken, the employer shall give the employee at least two weeks notice of the commencement of the employee’s annual vacation.

• (4) An employer shall pay vacation pay to an employee who is entitled to an annual vacation with vacation pay

  • (a) within the 14 days before the beginning of the vacation; or

  • (b) on the regular pay day during or immediately following the vacation where it is not practicable to comply with paragraph (a) or where it is an established practice in the industrial establishment in which the employee is employed to pay vacation pay on the regular pay day during or immediately following the vacation.