Yukon: the official figures for 2026
These are all the figures of jurisdictions.yukon in the data file: eight loose figures and six tables with 31 rows, each with the statute it comes from, when it took effect and how far it has been verified.
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It is one of the 14 pages of the Jurisdictions block, inside official figures. The raw data is in legal-data-2026.json.
What this block holds
Yukon's end-of-job rules sit in the Employment Standards Act, R.S.Y. 2002, c. 72, and none of its rows carries a start date. From it the site takes the six-month threshold, the notice ladders for employers and for employees who resign (both in section 50), temporary layoff under sections 48 and 53, notice to the director for group terminations under section 58, vacation under section 21, the eleven general holidays, final pay under section 65 and complaints under section 73. The Act contains no severance pay entitlement.
Notice runs in both directions: after six consecutive months your employer owes you notice, and you owe notice if you quit, on a ladder that reaches four weeks at six years. Vacation pay, on the other hand, doesn't step up with service. The table has a single row, 4% of wages with two weeks of vacation, however long you've worked. The holiday list includes Discovery Day, which only Yukon has.
A temporary layoff is capped at 13 weeks in any 20 consecutive weeks, but it stays temporary longer if your employer recalls you within a period the director sets, and past the limit the Employment Standards Board may extend it. The figures are statutory rather than indexed and stay as they are until an amendment changes them.
How to read the table
Figure explains the rule, Value states it, Source gives the section, Validity holds a start date (here always a dash), and Status tells you whether it was checked against the Act. Read the final pay row after a resignation: 7 days, s. 65, Verified, with a note that section 65(2) applies to termination at any time, which takes in quitting. Verified means the number was confirmed in the statute. The other two labels, Secondary source for numbers the site works out itself and Not yet verified for numbers kept off other pages, don't appear here.
No row is a calculation of what you're owed: the ladder needs your service, the percentage needs your wages, and a contract or collective agreement can set a higher floor.
Where the site uses these figures
The Yukon termination and notice guide and the severance and notice calculator are built on these rows, and the Yukon EI page deals with benefits afterwards. The resignation ladder is explained in notice you owe your employer, the seven-day rule in when your final pay is due, and the layoff limits in the rules on temporary layoffs.
Status: Verified = read in the primary source; Secondary source = worked out by us from official figures, arithmetic shown; Not yet verified = not confirmed in the primary source, and so not published as a firm figure on any other page. The detail is in rule three of the methodology.
Yukon jurisdictions.yukon
| Figure | Value | Source | Validity | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Six consecutive months. The same threshold applies to the notice an employee must give.yukon.notice.qualifying_service | 6 months | Employment Standards Act, s. 50 — Notice required | — | Verified Reviewed 2026-09-05 |
The Employment Standards Act contains no severance pay entitlement.yukon.severance.exists | No | Employment Standards Act, R.S.Y. 2002, c. 72 | — | Verified Reviewed 2026-09-05 |
Yukon · group termination · thresholdyukon.group_termination.threshold | 25 employees | Employment Standards Act, s. 58 — Notice to director (group termination) | — | Verified Reviewed 2026-09-05 |
Yukon · group termination · windowyukon.group_termination.window | 4 weeks | Employment Standards Act, s. 58 — Notice to director (group termination) | — | Verified Reviewed 2026-09-05 |
Eleven general holidays, including Discovery Day, which only Yukon has.yukon.holidays.count | 11 | Employment Standards Act, s. 1 — Definitions, including "general holiday" | — | Verified Reviewed 2026-09-05 |
Yukon · final pay · days after terminationyukon.final_pay.days_after_termination | 7 days | Employment Standards Act, s. 65 — Time for payment of wages | — | Verified Reviewed 2026-09-05 |
Section 65(2) applies when employment is terminated "at any time", which covers a resignation.yukon.final_pay.days_after_quit | 7 days | Employment Standards Act, s. 65 — Time for payment of wages | — | Verified Reviewed 2026-09-05 |
Six months, counted from the day the wages should have been paid; for anything other than wages, six months from when the matter arose.yukon.complaint.deadline | 6 months | Employment Standards Act, s. 73 — Complaints | — | Verified Reviewed 2026-09-05 |
| Service from years | Service to years | Weeks |
|---|---|---|
| 0.50 years | 1 year | 1 week |
| 1 year | 3 years | 2 weeks |
| 3 years | 4 years | 3 weeks |
| 4 years | 5 years | 4 weeks |
| 5 years | 6 years | 5 weeks |
| 6 years | 7 years | 6 weeks |
| 7 years | 8 years | 7 weeks |
| 8 years | — | 8 weeks |
Source: Employment Standards Act, s. 50 — Notice required. Reviewed on September 5, 2026.
| Service from years | Service to years | Weeks |
|---|---|---|
| 0.50 years | 2 years | 1 week |
| 2 years | 4 years | 2 weeks |
| 4 years | 6 years | 3 weeks |
| 6 years | — | 4 weeks |
Source: Employment Standards Act, s. 50 — Notice required. Reviewed on September 5, 2026.
| Label | Max value | Max unit | Window value | Window unit | Condition | Source | Quote |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Basic limit | 13 | weeks | 20 | weeks | — | yt_esa_s48 | not exceeding 13 weeks of layoff in a period of 20 consecutive weeks |
| Recall inside the director's time | — | — | — | — | A layoff longer than 13 weeks still counts as temporary if your employer calls you back inside a time the director sets. | yt_esa_s48 | exceeding 13 weeks of layoff, if the employer recalls the employee to employment within a time set by the director |
| Extension with leave of the board | — | — | — | — | Once the layoff has passed the limit, your employer may ask the Employment Standards Board for leave to extend it, for whatever time the board orders. | yt_esa_s53 | the employer may, with leave of the board, extend the period of the temporary layoff of the employee for any period of time the board may order |
Source: Employment Standards Act, s. 48 — Interpretation, temporary layoff and terminate. Reviewed on September 5, 2026.
| Employees from | Employees to | Weeks |
|---|---|---|
| 25 | 49 | 4 weeks |
| 50 | 99 | 8 weeks |
| 100 | 299 | 12 weeks |
| 300 | — | 16 weeks |
Source: Employment Standards Act, s. 58 — Notice to director (group termination). Reviewed on September 5, 2026.
| Service from years | Service to years | Weeks | Pay percent |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0 years | — | 2 weeks | 4% |
Source: Employment Standards Act, s. 21 — Entitlement to vacation with pay. Reviewed on September 5, 2026.
| Name | Date rule |
|---|---|
| New Year's Day | January 1 |
| Good Friday | Friday before Easter Sunday |
| Victoria Day | Monday before May 25 |
| National Indigenous Peoples Day | June 21 |
| Canada Day | July 1 |
| Discovery Day | Third Monday in August |
| Labour Day | First Monday in September |
| National Day for Truth and Reconciliation | September 30 |
| Thanksgiving Day | Second Monday in October |
| Remembrance Day | November 11 |
| Christmas Day | December 25 |
Source: Employment Standards Act, s. 1 — Definitions, including "general holiday". Reviewed on September 5, 2026.