Big changes considered for Ontario workplaces

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.

Casual and contract workers

Forcing employers to post employees' schedules in advance. Compensating workers for last-minute schedule changes. Limiting the proportion of an employer's workforce that can be from temp agencies.

Unionizing

Banning or limiting the use of replacement workers during a strike. Making it easier for the employees of franchises to form unions.
Allowing domestic workers employed in private homes to form unions.

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