In this PH Report:
All tagged employment standards
Perhaps even more startling than the spread of COVID-19 across the globe is the speed with which things change in an effort to “flatten the curve”. These daily, and sometimes hourly, changes put pressure on both employers and employees. Important for Ontario employers, the provincial government has announced its intention to amend the ESA to provide immediate job protection for employees who have received medical or public health advice and are quarantined or isolated due to COVID-19 symptoms or diagnosis, or who have been away from work to care for children because of school or daycare closures, since January 25, 2020.
On December 6, 2018 the Ontario government announced it was introducing omnibus legislation, Bill 66, Restoring Ontario’s Competitiveness Act, 2018, that, if passed, would make additional key changes to the Employment Standards Act, 2000. Unlike the changes under Bill 47 to roll back many of the Bill 148 changes or under Bill 57 to eliminate the gender pay parity proposals, these changes remove long-standing administrative requirements relating to hours of work exemptions and employee notifications.
The proposed changes are outlined in this report.