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Employer

Employee

Regular Rate of Pay

Work week

Premium Rate

Collective Agreement

Overtime pay

Public holidays

Pregnancy leave

• Employees do not have to work on these days, but are still paid their regular wages for the day.
  
• A right that allows pregnant women to take 17 weeks of unpaid leave from work.
  
• A contract that results from collective bargaining (a system that lets employees deal as a group with their employer). For example, a union, acts on behalf of its members on issues such as wage increase, working conditions, etc.
  
• The regular rate or regular hourly wage times 1.5.
  
• A person working for another person or a business firm who expects to be paid for his/her services.
  
• Seven consecutive days, beginning on the day established by the employer.
  
• A wage rate higher than the regular wage rate. For example, most employees who work on a public holiday are entitled to receive at least time and a half their regular wage rate.
  
• A person or business that employs one or more people.
  
• The wage rate of an employee for an hour of work in a regular non-overtime workweek.