Employment standards
Rules, regulations and compliance measures for employers and employees in Alberta workplaces.
Summary of changes to Alberta employment standards
Publications and resources
Online education and information sessions
Complaints, appeals and anonymous tips
Enforcement
Exceptions for specific industries
- Ambulance attendants - Employment standards exceptions
- Brush clearing - Employment standards exceptions
- Caregivers - Employment standards exceptions
- Construction - Employment standards exceptions
- Domestic employees - Employment standards exceptions
- Farm and ranch - Employment standards exceptions
- Federally regulated industries - Employment standards exceptions
- Field catering - Employment standards exceptions
- Firefighters - Employment standards exceptions
- Geophysical exploration - Employment standards exceptions
- Highway and railway construction - Employment standards exceptions
- Irrigation district employees - Employment standards exceptions
- Land surveying - Employment standards exceptions
- Logging and lumbering - Employment standards exceptions
- Nursery industry - Employment standards exceptions
- Oilwell servicing - Employment standards exceptions
- Road construction and maintenance - Employment standards exceptions
- Salespersons and direct sellers - Employment standards exceptions
- Taxi cab drivers - Employment standards exceptions
- Trucking industry - Employment standards exceptions
General holidays and vacations
Hours of work and pay
Job-protected leaves
Permits and variances
- Employment standards permits issued prior to January 1, 2018
- Employment standards variance – 3-hour pay minimum
- Employment standards variance – Extend days of work
- Employment standards variance – Extend hours of work
- Employment standards variance – Extend period of averaging
- Employment standards variance – Minister order to vary or exempt
- List of employment standards variances issued
- List of youth employment permits issued
- Youth employment permit