12. A friend, Elwyn, comes to you with a question. He has applied for employment with a temporary help agency. On the reverse side of the application there is a policy statement that states the applicant understands that he or she is not required to work on any day and retains the choice of whether to report to the agency's office to indicate availability for an assignment. He wants to know whether, and, if so, how, this statement could affect his rights under employment legislation. Describe to Elwyn the legal effect of this policy statement.

13. Your friend, who owns a beauty shop, tells you that one of her employees has just resigned after taking more vacation days than she has earned to that point in the year. She wants to know whether the value of the excess days can be recovered by her withholding monies from the employee's final paycheque. What do you tell her?

3 Review the requirements of the now indefinitely postponed Pay Transparency Act, passed in 2018. Do you think that, if implemented, those new requirements would have a noticeable impact on the gender wage gap in Ontario? Explain your answer.

. Flowers Galore (FG), a company that sells wholesale flowers, had 75 employees in 1987. By 2018, FG still had not done pay equity. It now has 112 employees. Does the employer need to post a pay equity plan?

4 . Watch the 10-minute YouTube video entitled "Business Owner Makes Money by Hiring Disabled Workers" at www.cacl.ca/news-stories/blog/cbc-story-benefits hiring-disabled-employees. It features a Tim Hortons franchisee who promotes the economic benefits of hiring persons with disabilities. What are some of the advantages of hiring employees with disabilities pointed out in this video?