New Brunswick: the official figures for 2026

These are all the figures of jurisdictions.new_brunswick in the data file: nine loose figures and five tables with 14 rows, each with the statute it comes from, when it took effect and how far it has been verified.

Updated September 6, 2026 · Figures verified against the statutes of each jurisdiction · see all figures and their sources

It is one of the 14 pages of the Jurisdictions block, inside official figures. The raw data is in legal-data-2026.json.

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.

`jurisdictions.new_brunswick`

Figures in `jurisdictions.new_brunswick`
Key	Value	Source	Validity	Status
`new_brunswick.notice.qualifying_service` Six months is the longest qualifying period of any province, and Yukon asks the same six months. Your period of employment runs from your last hiring and keeps running through any layoff or suspension of less than twelve consecutive months.	6 months	Employment Standards Act, s. 30 — Notice of termination or lay off	—	Verified Reviewed 2026-09-06
`new_brunswick.notice.temporary_layoff_minimum` Up to six days for any reason at all, with no notice. Past six days your employer needs a reason it could not have foreseen, or it owes you the notice.	6 days	Employment Standards Act, s. 31 — Termination or lay off without notice	—	Verified Reviewed 2026-09-06
`new_brunswick.severance.exists` New Brunswick has no separate statutory severance pay.	No	Employment Standards Act, S.N.B. 1982, c. E-7.2	—	Verified Reviewed 2026-09-06
`new_brunswick.group_termination.threshold` Two conditions have to be met at once: more than ten people, and those people have to be at least 25% of the employer's workforce. A large employer can therefore cut far more than ten jobs without triggering the section.	10 employees	Employment Standards Act, s. 32 — Notice of termination or lay off of more than ten employees	—	Verified Reviewed 2026-09-06
`new_brunswick.group_termination.window`	4 weeks	Employment Standards Act, s. 32 — Notice of termination or lay off of more than ten employees	—	Verified Reviewed 2026-09-06
`new_brunswick.holidays.count` New Brunswick calls them public holidays and has eight. Remembrance Day is one of them, written into the Act's own definition, which is not true in every province.	8	Employment Standards Act, s. 1 — Definitions (public holiday, pay, wages, period of employment)	—	Verified Reviewed 2026-09-06
`new_brunswick.final_pay.days_after_termination` Outside limit. If your usual payday falls sooner, that earlier date is the deadline.	21 days	Employment Standards Act, s. 37 — Payment of outstanding pay on cessation of employment	—	Verified Reviewed 2026-09-06
`new_brunswick.final_pay.days_after_quit` Section 37 uses the same limit whether you were dismissed or you resigned.	21 days	Employment Standards Act, s. 37 — Payment of outstanding pay on cessation of employment	—	Verified Reviewed 2026-09-06
`new_brunswick.complaint.deadline` Twelve months from the violation, and the Director's order can only reach back over the twelve months before the complaint, so waiting costs money as well as time.	12 months	Employment Standards Act, s. 61 — Complaint to the Director	—	Verified Reviewed 2026-09-06

Table `new_brunswick.notice.schedule.rows`
`service_from_years`	`service_to_years`	`weeks`
0.50 years	5 years	2 weeks
5 years	—	4 weeks

Source: Employment Standards Act, s. 30 — Notice of termination or lay off. Reviewed on September 6, 2026.

Table `new_brunswick.notice.temporary_layoff_limits.rows`
`label`	`max_value`	`max_unit`	`window_value`	`window_unit`	`condition`	`source`	`quote`
No limit in the Act	—	—	—	—	The Act sets no fixed limit; a layoff needs the same two or four weeks' written notice as a dismissal, and it never becomes a termination just by lasting a long time.	nb_esa_s30	an employer shall not terminate or lay off an employee without having given at least

Source: Employment Standards Act, s. 30 — Notice of termination or lay off. Reviewed on September 6, 2026.

Table `new_brunswick.group_termination.schedule.rows`
`employees_from`	`employees_to`	`weeks`
11	—	6 weeks

Source: Employment Standards Act, s. 32 — Notice of termination or lay off of more than ten employees. Reviewed on September 6, 2026.

Table `new_brunswick.vacation.schedule.rows`
`service_from_years`	`service_to_years`	`weeks`	`pay_percent`
0 years	8 years	2 weeks	4%
8 years	—	3 weeks	6%

Source: Employment Standards Act, s. 24 — Vacation. Reviewed on September 6, 2026.

Table `new_brunswick.holidays.list.rows`
`name`	`date_rule`
New Year's Day	January 1
Family Day	Third Monday in February
Good Friday	Friday before Easter Sunday
Canada Day	July 1
New Brunswick Day	First Monday in August
Labour Day	First Monday in September
Remembrance Day	November 11
Christmas Day	December 25

Source: Employment Standards Act, s. 1 — Definitions (public holiday, pay, wages, period of employment). Reviewed on September 6, 2026.