Somehow I missed this AWESOME news.

[inanna]

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.

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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

[Laffy Kat]

1. Can come live with you? nt

[inanna]

2. Aw hell. Why not?

lol....

[Laffy Kat]

3. Thanks. I appreciate that.

Might take me a few years to wrap things up here.

[Cracklin Charlie]

4. Wow

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!

[Marie Marie]

5. We need Canada to invade us - RIGHT NOW!!

We'll surrender and go willingly.

[Saviolo]

6. Guess I'm a bad Canadian!

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]

7. Sick days: They're mandatory for most full time employees.

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.

[Saviolo]

11. Makes sense!

I will go to bed less stupid tonight

[inanna]

12. I was unaware myself until I found myself in...

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.

[world wide wally]

8. I wanna be Canadian!

I'll just deal with the winter.

[manicraven]

9. Down here 60 million or so would vote against all of that because it's part of a "nanny state."

They gotta be free and want no government controls.

[Sanity Claws]

10. Anyone know a Canadian I could marry?