As you will recall, the Pay Transparency Act, 2018 was passed by the previous Ontario government and was scheduled to come into effect on January 1, 2019. In fall 2018, the current administration postponed the effective date indefinitely, leading many to speculate that the legislation would not come into force.
However, we may yet see
Read More →As of January 1, 2019, the federal government and the provinces of Ontario, Manitoba and Nova Scotia are at various stages of introducing accessibility laws. Canada is a signatory to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and as such has agreed to take appropriate measures to achieve accessibility and
Read More →We have reported before on the case of Wayne Talos and the Grand Erie District School Board. Mr. Talos was a teacher who chose to continue working past the age of 65, but was denied further benefit coverage due to his age.
Following a lengthy hearing, the Human Rights Tribunal ruled
Read More →The Ontario government has just passed the Bill 148 which amends the Employment Standards Act and the Labour Relations Act with a target effective date of January 1, 2018. The Bill still needs to receive Royal Assent.
Key changes to the Employment Standards Act will include:
Legislation coming to the Federally Regulated Employment Sector (and possibly provincially-regulated employers enrolled in the Federal Contractors Program)
The Canadian pay equity model requires employers to assess the value of female-dominated jobs and male-dominated jobs within an organization by evaluating the value of the jobs on the basis of skill, effort,
Read More →Effective July 1, 2016, the Customer Service Standard Regulation will be revoked. An expanded Integrated Accessibility Standards Regulation will include all standards, including customer service requirements.
Following public consultations, there are certain changes to the accessible customer service standard:
Training Required for ALL Employees
The primary change is with respect to the
Read More →As of December 2006, the Ontario Human Rights Code was amended to abolish mandatory retirement. However, the provincial government intentionally did not make corresponding revisions to the Employment Standards Act or the Workplace Safety and Insurance ...
Read More →The Pay Equity Act of Ontario requires every provincially regulated employer with ten or more employees to ensure that pay equity exists in the workplace. This is not a one-off compliance requirement. Rather, employers must maintain pay equity on an ongoing basis. This means that both unionized and non-union employers
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Canadian National Occupational Classification
Pay Equity Commission
US – Standard Occupational Classification