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{{Template:Legal Help Guide TOC}}As an employee, you are entitled to be paid for all of the hours that you worked, within a short period after completing the work. If you have worked overtime, you may be entitled to additional pay for the excess hours. You may also be entitled to pay for statutory holidays. | {{Template:Legal Help Guide TOC}}As an employee, you are entitled to be paid for all of the hours that you worked, within a short period after completing the work. If you have worked overtime, you may be entitled to additional pay for the excess hours. You may also be entitled to pay for statutory holidays. | ||
If you can't resolve a problem relating to unpaid wages directly with your employer, | If you can't resolve a problem relating to unpaid wages directly with your employer, you generally have two options for taking action: | ||
* sue directly in Small Claims Court (or the Supreme Court), or | |||
* make a claim through either the provincial or federal labour ministries. | |||
It is important to get legal advice about both these options. This is because once you have begun one of these processes, you may be legally prevented from switching to or using the other process. | |||
This section will focus on how to make a claim through the labour ministries. Which ministry to make your claim through will depend on whether your employer is '''provincially regulated''' or '''federally regulated'''. Most employers are provincially regulated, but the following are federally regulated: | |||
* federal government and federal Crown corporations, | * federal government and federal Crown corporations, | ||
* banks, | * banks, | ||