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Related: About this forumSomehow I missed this AWESOME news.
From CBC dated Feb 27, 2017 5:00 AM ET
Big changes considered for Ontario workplaces
Report could trigger the most sweeping reforms to employment and labour laws since the 1990s
Premier Kathleen Wynne's government is about to get advice that could lead to a significant shakeup of the laws governing work in Ontario.
The Changing Workplaces Review is examining just about everything related to labour law in this province, including sick pay, overtime, how workers can join unions and employers' responsibilities to contract workers.
It could trigger the most significant reforms to the Employment Standards Act and the Labour Relations Act since Mike Harris was premier.
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Here are some of the options that the government's special advisers are considering:
Sick pay, overtime, vacation pay, minimum wage
Making paid sick days mandatory.
Boosting the minimum required paid vacation to three weeks per year from the current two weeks.
Lowering the threshold at which overtime pay must kick in to 40 hours, down from the current 44 hours.
Abolishing the lower minimum wage for students under 18 and people who serve alcohol.
Requiring employers to pay their part-time workers the same as full-time workers doing similar jobs.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-changing-workplaces-review-labour-law-1.3994571
Laffy Kat
(16,531 posts)inanna
(3,547 posts)lol....
Laffy Kat
(16,531 posts)Might take me a few years to wrap things up here.
Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)I had to read that 3 times, because I wasn't finding the sarcasm of the AWESOME headline. I kept thinking what am I missing...all these things sound pretty good.
It's been so long since I've seen it, I didn't recognize it. It really was good news.
Congratulations, Canada!
Marie Marie
(10,027 posts)We'll surrender and go willingly.
Saviolo
(3,321 posts)I thought that paid sick days were already mandatory.
Anyway, it's all good news, coupled with the still-a-ways-off-I-guess guaranteed income pilot project, this is great news for Ontario. This will certainly make up for some of the bad press that Wynne has been collecting.
inanna
(3,547 posts)But not for part-timers or casual employees.
So this would be very good for lots of people currently caught in the precarious employment trap.
Saviolo
(3,321 posts)I will go to bed less stupid tonight
inanna
(3,547 posts)a permanent part-time position. Then I got sick and lost a days pay.
So basically, unless this does change, I cannot afford to be sick without incurring lost wages.
world wide wally
(21,835 posts)I'll just deal with the winter.