The pilot project, proposed through a regulation filed Monday, would amend the Employment Standards Act to split 10 days of unpaid emergency leave into two categories. ...
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Heard: Labour group pledges to enshrine paid domestic violence leave in future collective agreements
NDP MPP Peggy Sattler currently has a private members' bill at committee that would amend both the Employment Standards Act and the Occupational Health and Safety Act to include up to 10 days of paid leave and accommodat ...
Seen: Gender wage gap working group 2.0 established
Labour Minister Kevin Flynn will detail a plan to bridge the gender wage gap - an almost 30-per-cent-wide canyon in Ontario - by the spring of 2018. ...
Changing Workplaces review delayed as business prodded to consult
Final recommendations for changes to the Employment Standards Act and Labour Relations Act are expected in February 2017, with changes to personal emergency leave provisions coming this fall session. ...
Ontario blowing smoke over workplace safety in mental-health care, says Smokey Thomas
OPSEU is linking underfunding of mental health care to violence on the job. ...
Seen: NDP MPP’s domestic-violence leave bill passes second reading
Peggy Sattler's bill, if passed, would allow up to 10 days of paid leave for victims of domestic or sexual abuse. ...
Heard: ‘Live in my shoes in a job that takes me below the poverty line’
A woman balancing three jobs is testing the Labour Minister's mettle after a Ryerson report shows precarious work could signal a looming public health crisis, particularly for immigrant and refugee women. ...
Tug-of-war heating up over Changing Workplaces
Submissions for the biggest overhaul to employment law in nearly two decades are rolling in, and so far, they suggest the labour ministry might have to do its best balancing act when the time comes to craft new legislati ...
Domestic violence leave on the table as part of Changing Workplaces review: Minister
The substance of an NDP private member's bill that would give victims of domestic violence up to 10 days of paid leave is being considered as part of the province's Changing Workplaces Review. ...
New working group will chart Ontario’s course to close gender pay gap by 2018
Labour Minister Kevin Flynn says he will have a "very firm action plan" in place by 2018 that will at some point in the future bridge the nearly 30-per-cent pay gap between men and women in Ontario. ...
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