Comments for Canadian Payroll Consulting

Comment on Disconnect between EI insurable earnings and hours for statutory holidays by Alan R. McEwen

Alan R. McEwen — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 13:47:57 +0000

There is a difference between the “normal” or “regular” hours of work on a day the employee would not otherwise have worked and an employee who always works irregular or varying hours. For example, if an employee always works an 8 hour shift, but a stat holiday falls on a non-working day, then use 8 hours. If the person truly has no regular or normal hours, there aren’t any clear rules. I would suggest using an average, such as the hours worked in the last 4 weeks, divided by 20. The main thing is to pick a reasonable method and stick with it.

Comment on Disconnect between EI insurable earnings and hours for statutory holidays by Tina

Tina — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 15:39:38 +0000

Thanks for the article! Just wondering if you would know how hours are calculated when the employee is not scheduled to work on that day, works irregular hours, and has no set pay rate. Holiday pay is automatically distributed to all employees for the day itself (agreed to in writing).

Comment on Pay Equity and What it is Not by Sharon

Sharon — Sat, 09 Mar 2013 13:44:27 +0000

Good article, I never fully understood the difference until now. Very helpful information.

Comment on CRA remittances – opportunities for payroll fraud by Alan R. McEwen

Alan R. McEwen — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 01:04:49 +0000

The first question is has the employer filed a T4 for this employment? If the answer is yes, there will be no problems related to CPP contributions. If the answer is no, for example, the employer has gone out of business and is no longer available, then employees should declare their CPP and EI source deductions when filing their own income taxes. The CRA would probably want evidence that these amounts had been paid, from pay stubs, etc. Similarly, if employees can show evidence of the insurable hours worked and the related earnings, the fact that no EI remittances were made will not affect the ability of employees to claim EI benefits. OK?

Comment on CRA remittances – opportunities for payroll fraud by Joe

Joe — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 17:39:22 +0000

A friend of ours has just found out that his employer has not been remitting the payroll deductions to cra. Turns out his employer now owes over one million dollars to cra. Will this effect his ability to claim UI or his CPP ?

Comment on Vacation pay on inactive service by Nanci Lazar

Nanci Lazar — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 17:56:53 +0000

It is about time ltd, etc. was recognized as equal to other groups off work with full pay + benefits. What about holiday pay, special allowances (signing bonus), denial of insurance (only for people on the active payroll) and the right to be severed (after 15 years, isn’t clear going back to work ever – is remote?

Comment on Avoiding payroll fraud by Darryl Stewart

Darryl Stewart — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 12:47:27 +0000

These guys were right in the “no-man’s land” between big and small. It was a large restaurant , around a 100 employees, hard for the owner to keep track and until then, no real systems like those as you suggest. They now have systems after this lesson!

Comment on Avoiding payroll fraud by Alan R. McEwen

Alan R. McEwen — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 12:30:34 +0000

Darryl, you hit the nail on the head. Smaller employers need to pay careful attention to employee names on the payroll.

Comment on Avoiding payroll fraud by Darryl Stewart

Darryl Stewart — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 11:25:56 +0000

We were once brought in after the payroll administrator had been caught in a serious fraud. She would create fake employees, change the bank account number to hers, and then after the payroll deactivate the employee and put the bank account back to what it was previously, so her account number was no longer on record. The software they were using did not keep track of the bank account number being changed.

This went on for some time until the owner got to wondering about one of the employee names he saw on payroll several times, but had never heard of before…

Comment on When must employees take the vacation time they have earned? by Kathy Baxter

Kathy Baxter — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 15:05:19 +0000

Alan, thank you very much for this “reminder” article.