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inanna

(3,547 posts)
Wed Mar 8, 2017, 11:22 PM Mar 2017

Somehow 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.

<snip>

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
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Somehow I missed this AWESOME news. (Original Post) inanna Mar 2017 OP
Can come live with you? nt Laffy Kat Mar 2017 #1
Aw hell. Why not? inanna Mar 2017 #2
Thanks. I appreciate that. Laffy Kat Mar 2017 #3
Wow Cracklin Charlie Mar 2017 #4
We need Canada to invade us - RIGHT NOW!! Marie Marie Mar 2017 #5
Guess I'm a bad Canadian! Saviolo Mar 2017 #6
Sick days: They're mandatory for most full time employees. inanna Mar 2017 #7
Makes sense! Saviolo Mar 2017 #11
I was unaware myself until I found myself in... inanna Mar 2017 #12
I wanna be Canadian! world wide wally Mar 2017 #8
Down here 60 million or so would vote against all of that because it's part of a "nanny state." manicraven Mar 2017 #9
Anyone know a Canadian I could marry? Sanity Claws Mar 2017 #10

Cracklin Charlie

(12,904 posts)
4. Wow
Wed Mar 8, 2017, 11:40 PM
Mar 2017

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!

Saviolo

(3,321 posts)
6. Guess I'm a bad Canadian!
Thu Mar 9, 2017, 12:28 AM
Mar 2017

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)
7. Sick days: They're mandatory for most full time employees.
Thu Mar 9, 2017, 12:33 AM
Mar 2017

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.

inanna

(3,547 posts)
12. I was unaware myself until I found myself in...
Thu Mar 9, 2017, 08:03 PM
Mar 2017

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.

manicraven

(901 posts)
9. Down here 60 million or so would vote against all of that because it's part of a "nanny state."
Thu Mar 9, 2017, 01:49 AM
Mar 2017
They gotta be free and want no government controls.
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