Bill 148 the Fair Workplaces, Better Jobs Act, has passed third reading and will now become law. The legislation will raise Ontario's minimum wage to $15, mandate equal pay for part-time, temporary, casual and seasonal work, and extend personal emergency leave for all employ...
In a letter to AMO President Lynn Dollin, Minister of Municipal Affairs Bill Mauro has confirmed that the government will introduce amendments to exempt essential public services from Bill 148's on-call pay and 96 hours notice scheduling provisions. Specifically, as a result ...
Yesterday Minister of Community Safety and Correctional Services Marie-France Lalonde and Attorney General Yasir Naqvi introduced the government's proposed community safety and policing reforms. Key reforms include: Giving municipalities a larger role in defining an...
The Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) has released a new policy for chronic mental stress and another for traumatic mental stress. The two new policies are the result of consultations and feedback submitted by Ontario's, businesses and a number of stakeholder associ...
The province announced today that it is establishing an Opioid Emergency Task Force to better coordinate the government's response to the opioid crisis. The group, which will be comprised of frontline workers and people with lived experience with opioids, will advise the gover...
The Ministry of Health and Long-term Care (MOHLTC) is conducting a consultation on the Ambulance Act, with the goal of proposing substantial changes to emergency health services in Ontario, including a controversial proposal to establish so called "fire-medics." In addition to...
The province has announced a series of reforms to emergency health services, including a new system for paramedic dispatching and two fire service paramedicine pilot programs. The province's new proposed medical dispatch system is designed to do a better job of triaging and pr...
The Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) is currently in the process of developing a new policy to support recent provincial legislation that would allow compensation for work-related chronic mental stress. This new policy will affect a number of sectors, including mun...
Last week Ontario Justice Michael Tulloch released his independent review of Ontario’s police oversight system. The review, which was created to improve the transparency and accountability of the province’s three police oversight bodies, resulted in 129 recommendations to hel...
The Ministry of Health and Long-term Care (MOHLTC) has released a discussion paper exploring the viability of allowing fire services to provide paramedic care. This proposal, which was initially made by the Ontario Professional Fire Fighters Association (OPFFA), could potentia...