1st Session, 59th General Assembly
Nova Scotia
54 Elizabeth II, 2005
Frank Corbett
Cape Breton Centre
First Reading: May 4, 2005
Second Reading:
Third Reading:
Clause 1 prohibits employers from deducting from the wages of employees to cover losses arising from customers leaving without paying for goods or services or otherwise failing to pay for the goods and services.
Clause 2 adds the deduction from wages contrary to the new provision in Clause 1 to the list of matters about which an employee may make a complaint under Section 81 of the Labour Standards Code.
1 Chapter 246 of the Revised Statutes, 1989, the Labour Standards Code, is amended by adding immediately after Section 79 the following Section:
(2) Subsection (1) does not apply where the opportunity for the customers to leave the employer's business without paying for goods or services or to otherwise fail to pay for goods or services is attributable to the gross negligence of the employee in carrying out reasonable terms of employment.