The Fair Workplaces, Better Jobs Act enshrines a $15 minimum wage, among other things. ...
Category: Jobs and Employment
The winners and losers of Ontario’s proposed labour law reforms
QP Briefing breaks down who got the best and worst of the proposed changes to the province's labour laws. ...
Pressure mounts as Ontario readies response to Changing Workplaces review
The government has not indicated if it will implement any of the recommendations, but that hasn't stopped business and labour groups from publicly airing what they believe the course of action should be. ...
Wynne: Changing Workplaces recommendations will be addressed in the ‘very near future’
The long awaited 419-page report makes 173 recommendations, including new legislation. ...
Liberals chide PCs for ‘quietly’ killing ‘anti-worker bill’
The Liberals criticized the PCs for pulling a bill that was criticized for being introduced in the first place. ...
PC Leader’s call to protect Ontario unions from ‘foreign takeovers’ raises ‘partisan’ eyebrows
"There must be pigs flying out there right now," the Liberal Labour Minister said. ...
Fewer job-seekers help push Ontario unemployment rate to lowest level since 2001
However, StatsCan said the drop in the unemployment rate in Ontario was “mostly due to a decline in the number of youth searching for work.” ...
Flynn teases ‘multi-pronged response’ to Changing Workplaces review ahead of mid-May release
"Some of it will be policy-driven, some of it will be of a regulatory nature, and some of it will probably be in a legislative form as well," the Labour Minister said. ...
Liberals accuse Jagmeet Singh of using temp workers as ‘props’ to ramp up leadership bid
NDP deputy leader fired back that the Grits are attempting to distract from their poor record on protecting temporary workers. ...
Call to close Ontario’s gender wage gap by 2025 ‘reasonable,’ Flynn says
Equal pay advocates and opposition parties charged that the government is delaying work to close the gender pay gap. ...