Ontario’s new job transparency rules are now in effect, but employment lawyers warn the measures risk becoming more symbolic than substantive without clear enforcement and meaningful consequences for companies that ignore them.
As of Jan. 1, employers with 25 or more employees must include salary ranges in public job postings, disclose when artificial intelligence is used to screen or assess applicants, and notify candidates of a hiring decision within 45 days of an interview. The changes were introduced under the latest version of the province’s Working for Workers Act, part of a series of legislative updates the Ford government says are meant to modernize employment standards.
But several employment lawyers told QP Briefing the new rules rely almost entirely on voluntary compliance.