Esheria Regulatory Atlas

Employment law in Canada — Northwest Territories

Employer duties, worker rights, contracts, workplace standards, and labour relations. These records come from release legal-2026.07.26-907 and link directly to stored legal text.

364 matching statutes

• Canada — Northwest Territories

  Workers Compensation

  8 provisions

  This part defines key terms used in the Workers’ Compensation Act, including worker, employer, compensation, disability, impairment, and medical aid.

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• Canada — Northwest Territories

  Employment Standards Regulation 2

  1 provisions

  This order declares the provinces and territories listed in the schedule to be reciprocating jurisdictions and designates the listed authorities for each corresponding province or territory.

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• Canada — Northwest Territories

  Employment Standards

  6 provisions

  This Act sets minimum employment standards on wages and hours, including minimum wage, 8-hour days, 40-hour weeks, overtime pay, and limits on maximum hours, with some exemptions and order-making powers.

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• Canada — Northwest Territories

  Payroll Tax Regulation 1

  1 provisions

  Employers must withhold and remit payroll tax, file required returns, and handle certain overpayments and reporting deadlines.

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• Canada — Northwest Territories

  Employment Standards Regulation 3

  1 provisions

  The regulation sets licensing rules for employment agencies, including who can apply, renewal timing and fees, recordkeeping, display requirements, and limits on charging job seekers.

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• Canada — Northwest Territories

  Employment Standards Regulation 1

  1 provisions

  This regulation sets employment standards rules for wages, meal breaks, leave eligibility, domestic worker contracts, and adjudicator fees and expenses.

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• Canada — Northwest Territories

  Safety Regulation 8

  27 provisions

  This provision sets notice and reporting rules for employers, including notices to the Chief Safety Officer for new operations, higher-risk work sites, and serious injury accidents.

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• Canada — Northwest Territories

  Northern Employee Benefits Services

  4 provisions

  This part keeps the NEBS pension plan in force, sets out who administers it, and gives the Minister and NEBS board specific powers and duties.

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• Canada — Northwest Territories

  Payroll Tax

  6 provisions

  This part defines key payroll-tax terms and requires employers to collect, report, and remit a 2% tax on employee remuneration, subject to specific rules and exceptions.

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• Canada — Northwest Territories

  Human Rights

  4 provisions

  The Act bans discrimination on listed grounds and bars discriminatory hiring, employment terms, job ads, and unequal pay; it also requires accommodation unless undue hardship applies.

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• Canada — Northwest Territories

  Human Rights Regulation 5

  1 provisions

  This order approves the preferential employment program for the BHP Diamonds Project.

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• Canada — Northwest Territories

  Human Rights Regulation 4

  1 provisions

  The Commissioner in Executive Council approves the preferential employment program set out in the Snap Lake Diamond Project Socio-Economic Agreement.

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• Canada — Northwest Territories

  Financial Administration Regulation 11

  1 provisions

  This order grants income tax remission to certain Indian taxpayers and related persons, subject to stated calculations and a written application condition for section 3 remission.

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• Canada — Northwest Territories

  Income Tax Regulation 1

  1 provisions

  The regulations require certain payers and employers to deduct or withhold prescribed amounts and remit them to the Receiver General of Canada.

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• Canada — Northwest Territories

  Maintenance Orders Enforcement Regulation 1

  1 provisions

  This regulation tells recipients, employers, and the Administrator what information to provide, how to keep records, and what must appear in a wage attachment notice.

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• Canada — Northwest Territories

  Human Rights Regulation 3

  4 provisions

  This provision approves a socio-economic monitoring agreement for the Diavik Diamonds Project and sets out reporting, employment, training, procurement, and advisory-board arrangements.

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• Canada — Northwest Territories

  Employment Standards Regulation 4

  1 provisions

  This regulation creates COVID-19-related emergency leave rules for employees, including when leave is available, when it is not, and time limits for complaints and reinstatement orders.

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• Canada — Northwest Territories

  Safety

  2 provisions

  This provision sets workplace health and safety duties for employers, workers, suppliers, and safety officers, and creates a refusal-to-work process for unusual danger.

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• Canada — Northwest Territories

  Insurance

  15 provisions

  This provision mainly sets out definitions used in the Insurance Act and shows the Act’s table of contents.

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• Canada — Northwest Territories

  Pharmacy Regulation 1

  1 provisions

  Applicants for pharmacist registration, renewal, or a new licence must give the Registrar specified personal and employment information, and several fees are set at $317 or $191. Retail sellers, suppliers, or distributors of certain naloxone products must make appropriate-use information available to the recipient.

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