For each employee, an employer must retain :

• name, DOB, occupation, phone number, residential address

• date employment began

• wage rate, whether paid hourly on a salary basis or on a flat rate

• benefits

• hours worked by employee on each day, regardless of whether the employee is paid on each day, regardless if paid by hourly or salary

• benefits paid to the employee

• the employee's gross and net wages for each pay period

• each deduction and what it’s for

• dates of stat holidays taken by each employee

• dates of annual vacation; amounts paid and amounts owing

• how much money has been taken from employees’ time bank, how much remains, the amounts paid and dates taken

These must be:

• in English

• kept at employers place of business

• retained for 4 years after the date of creation

BC ESA Pt.3 s.28