Official figures: every figure on this site, with its statute and its status

Every figure on this site comes from one data file, and this registry is that file laid out for reading: each figure with its statute or regulation, the section, the day it took effect, whether it has been read in the primary source and when it was last checked. Nothing on any page is typed from memory. If a figure here is wrong, the page that uses it is wrong too, which is why the registry is public and why you can report an error.

Updated September 14, 2026 · Figures verified against the statutes of each jurisdiction · see all figures and their sources · what's new

What this registry is for

A guide can tell you that your employer owes you two weeks' notice after a year of service, and cite the section. What it cannot easily show is the whole set of figures behind that sentence: the qualifying service, the schedule step by step, the day the schedule last changed and the day someone last opened the statute to confirm it. The registry does that. It exists so that you can check any figure on the site without trusting the site, and so that an error has nowhere to hide.

It also keeps the site honest about time. Employment standards change by regulation, sometimes with little warning. The Employment Insurance (EI) parameters move every year, and the regional table every four weeks. Each figure carries its own validity and its own review date, so when a page says a rule applies, you can see from what date and on whose word.

How to read a row

Every table in the registry has the same five columns.

• Figure. The plain name of the figure, and beneath it the key it has in the data file, for anyone who works with the file directly.
• Value. The figure with its unit: weeks, days, dollars, a percentage or a date. A value marked "our own calculation" is a figure no authority publishes as such, worked out from official figures with the arithmetic shown.
• Source. The statute or regulation and the section, linked to the consolidated text on the official site of the jurisdiction or on the Justice Laws Website for federal law.
• Validity. The date the figure took effect and, where a measure is temporary, the date it ends. A figure with an end date is used only while it is in force, and the build stops if a page uses it after that.
• Status. One of the three states below, with the date of the last review.

The three states, and why there are no others

Verified means the figure was read in the primary source: the consolidated text of the statute or regulation itself, not a guide, a summary or a news item. Secondary source means the rule and the starting figures are official but the resolved figure is not published by any authority, so it is worked out here and the arithmetic is shown beside it. Not yet verified means the figure has not been confirmed against the primary source yet: it appears in the registry for transparency and is not published as a firm figure on any other page, because the production build refuses to run if a page tries to use it. The rules behind this are in rule three of the methodology.

Where the figures come from

The employment standards figures come from the employment standards statute of each province and territory and, for federally regulated workplaces, from the Canada Labour Code and its regulations: notice of termination and its schedule, statutory severance pay where it exists, group termination thresholds, vacation pay rates, the holiday list and the pay formula, the final pay deadline, notice on quitting and the limits of a temporary layoff. Each of the fourteen jurisdictions has its own block below.

The Employment Insurance figures come from the Employment Insurance Act and the Employment Insurance Regulations for the parameters that are the same everywhere. The regional rate of unemployment, the hours you need and the weeks you get by economic region come from the EI Program Characteristics table that Service Canada publishes for each four-week period. That table is the one part of the registry on a fixed clock: it is read again every period and the EI pages are rebuilt from it. The methodology explains the EI cycle.

What is deliberately not here

The registry holds statutory minimums only. It has no common law notice, because courts award it case by case and no figure can stand for it; no contract terms, because every contract is different; and no collective agreement rates. Where a page says a lawyer may recover more, that is the boundary of this registry, not a gap in it. The methodology sets out what "statutory minimum" means here.

How the registry is laid out

The blocks below follow the data file. The jurisdictions block has one page per province, territory and the federal jurisdiction, each with that jurisdiction's individual figures and its schedules as tables. The Employment Insurance block has the federal parameters and the regional table for the current period. The pages of each block are audit tables rather than reading pages: the guides and the calculators are where the same figures are explained and used. What has changed since last year is listed at the end of this page, figure by figure, with the statute or regulation that moved it.

If you find a figure that is wrong

Write and say which figure and which source you checked. A figure that turns out to be wrong is corrected in the data file, every page that uses it is rebuilt, the review date moves, and the correction is noted in what's new. The registry is not a promise that nothing is wrong; it is the place where being wrong shows.

Verified

Read in the primary source: the consolidated text of the statute or regulation itself.

Secondary source

The rule and the starting figures are official, but the resolved figure is not published by any authority: we work it out and show the arithmetic.

Not yet verified

We have not been able to confirm it against the primary source yet. It appears here for transparency and is not published as a firm figure on any other page of the site: the production build stops if anyone tries.