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June 2018
British Columbia
ESA amendments focus on leaves
The province's legislature recently passed amendments that will
add new job-protected leaves and enhance existing leaves under
B.C.'s Employment Standards Act.
The changes are included in Bill 6, the Employment Standards
Amendment Act, 2018, which passed third reading on April 12. The
amendments will take effect once the bill receives royal assent.
Strategies to keep payroll cybersafe
Phishing, social engineering
being used to acquire data
BY SHEILA BRAWN
MALWARE. Ransomware. Phishing. Social engi-
neering. While these words may sound like they are
from science fiction, they are actually some of the
methods that cybercriminals use to attack organiza-
tions' operations — including payroll data.
"Different kinds of attacks or different kinds of
breaches can happen to any company's payroll de-
partment," said Sangameswaran Manikkayam, man-
ager of system engineering in Canada for security
services provider Trustwave.
That payroll data is valuable because it includes
employees' personal information, such as social in-
surance numbers and bank account numbers, which
can be used for identity theft, he said.
Trustwave's 2018 Global Security Report ranked
phishing and social engineering as the most com-
mon threats to corporate networks, at 55 per cent of
all incidents.
Social engineering uses various methods of hu-
man interaction to trick people into providing con-
fidential information. It could be a phone call or an
email from someone pretending to be an employee
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Legislative Roundup
Changes in payroll laws and regulations
from across Canada
see VACATION page 6
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Leave rules require
payroll's attention
Legislation has been priority across Canada
BY SHEILA BRAWN
LEGISLATED leaves of absence seem to be a priority for govern-
ments across Canada recently. Since late 2017, most jurisdictions
have amended their employment standards laws to implement new
leaves and enhance existing ones.
In recent months, many governments have increased the
length of parental leave, broadened leave for critically ill children
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News in Brief pg. 4
Employers unprepared for CPP,
QPP changes: Survey| B.C. minimum
wage rises | Phoenix class-action
lawsuit approved
Young worker
rules pg. 3
How well do you know
the requirements for
employing youth?
Ask an Expert pg. 5
Postponing or waiving
vacation entitlement |
Paying vacation pay to
salaried employees