The PC government blames the Liberals after Statistics Canada reports the province's unemployment rate jumped 0.3 percentage points over July to 5.7 per cent. ...
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Province to cut welfare increases in half, turf basic income pilot project ahead of welfare reform
Social Services Minister Lisa MacLeod said Tuesday social assistance rates will rise 1.5 per cent this fall. ...
Thousands more employees to be covered by pay equity rules under beefed-up bill
The government conceded in committee to several demands from advocates that give pay transparency legislation more oomph. ...
LiUNA workers rally against budget bill change, chant ‘We want Doug’
The labour law changes are part of the omnibus budget bill being debated by MPPs. ...
Advocates demand a more muscular pay transparency law
Businesses oppose the "burdensome" new bill, calling instead for tweaks to 31-year-old legislation. ...
New bill aims to protect construction workers’ wages, halt lowballing in public contracts
The Liberals' latest piece of labour legislation would ensure cheap contracts don't come at workers' expense. ...
Doug Ford pledges to scrap income taxes for minimum wage earners
Liberals say their plan to hike the minimum wage to $15 will leave more cash in the pockets of the working poor. ...
Pay transparency law ‘disappointing,’ ‘trailing’ behind feds, critics say
Equity legislation going back to the early 1960s has so far failed to tip the pay imbalance in Ontario. ...
Finance minister says foot-dragging by the feds on pot legalization could cost Ontarians
Provinces say they need months between enactment of legalization and start of sales, possibly making a July 1 start date a pipe dream. ...
Building Black identity via Twitter and town halls
Government aims to open pathways for Black youth with new public awareness campaign. ...
What cities, businesses and unions want for the 2018 budget
OPSEU president Smokey Thomas gets floral in his metaphors on the insidious creep of privatization, spreading its seed across sectors. ...
Poll: Ontarians split on support for paying more at Tim Hortons to restore workers’ paid benefits and breaks
Would you pay more for a cruller if it would mean the person ringing it up got paid breaks and benefits? ...
Labour minister praises independent café that embraces minimum wage increase
Kevin Flynn also suggests the PCs will roll back the minimum wage, 'so we're doing everything from a legislative perspective to ensure that that can't happen.' ...
Demonstrators descend on Tim Hortons locations across the province
Politicians, labour leaders and business owners trade barbs over response to the minimum wage hike to $14. ...
2017 a ‘stellar year’ for job growth
Ontario creates 176,000 net new jobs, a growth rate of 2.5 per cent year over year. ...
Duguid defends premier’s Twitter comments on Tim Hortons clawbacks
Small businesses and large chains from Ottawa to Cobourg, Toronto and Leamington are cutting employee hours and upping prices to cope with the extra cost. ...
NDP MPP Cindy Forster will not seek re-election
Legislator from Welland to step aside in June to focus on sick husband, leaving the NDP stronghold up for grabs. ...
Ontario job gains skyrocket in November to 43,000-plus
Unemployment drops to lowest level since 2000, while net new jobs hit biggest single-month spike since global recession. ...
Minimum wage law passes, flanked by sweeping labour reform
Changes made in committee give concessions to both workers and employers. ...
Back-to-work bill rolls forward, putting students one step closer to campus
Liberal MPPs skim newspaper, chat among themselves during rare weekend debate, conduct Andrea Horwath called "shameful." ...
College students could be back in class Tuesday as MPPs prepare to debate strike-ending bill all weekend
The Liberals tabled back-to-work legislation Friday afternoon, backed by the PCs but still opposed by the NDP. ...
College faculty face abrupt back-to-work legislation, but students may be out of class another week
Negotiation breaks down mere hours into resumption of talks, with Wynne taking swift action to deal with fallout. ...
Minimum wage hike a guaranteed issue in spring election, with positions staked out and potshots fired
NDP ad attacking PC plan to phase in the wage bump over four years arrives 24 hours after Tory announcement. ...
Progressive Conservatives vow to push back $15-an-hour minimum wage to 2022
The PCs are promising to keep the minimum wage lower than the government has promised, if they win the 2018 election. ...
Horwath presses for more paid leave, vacation and protections for workers
The NDP Leader unveiled a dozen demands she plans to make around labour legislation in committee next Tuesday. ...
College faculty to vote on deal to end strike
Colleges say faculty union has "stonewalled" them, prompting call to vote on their offer after weeks of picketing. ...
Liberal government tackling welfare reform before 2018 election: Minister
The government has promised a new report on social assistance will be a roadmap for reform. ...
College faculty and employers agree to go back to the bargaining table
Strike negotiations are set to resume Thursday after more than three weeks of the mutual silent treatment. ...
Ed Clark sells Ontario’s pitch for Amazon
Province being sold as a region that is committed to investing in tech talent. ...
U.S. targets auto sector in NAFTA negotiations: report
Sources say the U.S. has tabled a proposal that would require vehicles to contain 50 per cent American content in order to avoid duties. ...
College faculty could go on strike starting Monday
Stalemate follows "frustrating" day of bargaining, as both sides point fingers and dig in for 100-hour negotiating battle. ...
In brief: A new poll, a polished man, mental health, aerospace and 14 years of Liberal rule
A collection of briefs on the news of the day. ...
Labour minister says temp agencies may face tougher measures
Kevin Flynn confirms a review of WSIB premiums and liability is now underway, as incentives to outsource labour to temp workers remain in place. ...
Wynne to look into compensating farmers over labour law reforms
"We recognize that the agricultural community has some challenges that other sectors don't" in dealing with planned changes to minimum wages and other compensation reforms, the premier says. ...
FAO projects Ontario will lose 50,000 jobs from minimum wage boost
Increasing the wage to $15 an hour is "an inefficient policy tool for reducing overall poverty," the Financial Accountability Office asserts. ...
Heard: Ontario piles on 31,000 more jobs in August
Province forecasts job numbers to spike by 94,000 in 2017. ...
Heard: Ontario far outpaces other provinces in consumer debt growth
Report finds province's consumer debt grew more than 5 per cent, towering over the next-closest candidate, New Brunswick. ...
Tory MPP says Liberal policies kill manufacturing jobs
Monte McNaughton blames energy, tax costs for layoffs at Cambridge aeronautics plant but company cites reduced demand alone. ...
New Metrolinx CEO’s $479,500 salary raises Tory ire
Phil Verster is also eligible for a $1,000-per-month vehicle allowance. ...
Liberals ‘chipping away’ at family medical leave via labour bill amendment, NDP charge
The change would allow an employer to count at least one day of unpaid family medical leave as an entire week. ...
Collective agreements will prevail over some labour law changes, for now
Bill 148 is at clause-by-clause consideration this week. ...
Relief to offset $15 minimum wage may be temporary, labour minister suggests
The Ontario Chamber of Commerce released an economic-impact analysis on the government's proposed labour reforms Monday. ...
Union calls for reforms after alleged assaults at psychiatric hospital
"No worker should have to face this level and frequency of violence in their workplace," OPSEU's president says in wake of the report of another violent incident at Waypoint Centre for Mental Health Care in Penetanguish ...
NDP tease amendments aimed at bolstering Liberals’ new labour bill
Every minimum-wage earner would eventually make $15 an hour if the NDP had their way. ...
Ontario’s unemployment rate dips to 6.1 per cent in July
Canada’s jobless rate was down 0.2 percentage points last month to 6.3 per cent, with a spike in full-time work. ...
Wynne and talk-show host spar on air over $15 minimum wage
The premier fended off fightin' words from a right-leaning pundit concerned for small business on Newstalk 1010 Tuesday morning. ...
Precarious employment tops agenda at final labour law hearing
Business owners voice anxiety over 32 per cent minimum wage hike in 18-month period. ...
Premiers boast merit of annual summer gathering at COF 2017
Ontario's Premier recalls a rare kumbaya moment at this year's Council of the Federation gathering in Edmonton. ...
Labour and management square off over Liberals’ labour law reforms
Workers and owners in three industries battled it out in committee hearings over proposed changes to 30-year-old labour laws. ...
Domestic violence and unionization take centre stage at labour law hearings
Groups propose five days' paid leave due to domestic violence and grapple with card-based union certification. ...
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