Ontario Business Lobby Calls Additional Domestic Abuse Leave, Other Rules “Harmful to Business”, Begs Ford to Repeal It
They want to end pro-worker policies.
October 1, 2018
Two of Ontario’s corporate business lobby groups are calling on Ford to repeal A Plan for Fair Workplaces and Better Jobs (Bill 148).
Included in the bill is a provision that allows workers or their children who experience domestic or sexual violence, or the threat of domestic or sexual violence, to take additional time off.
The previous rules only allowed workers to take five paid days. As part of Bill 148, employees or their children facing or experiencing violence can take an additional five days of paid leave on top of the previous five, and up to 15 weeks of unpaid leave.
The Retail Council of Canada is calling on Ford to cancel these changes and roll-back Bill 148. In a CBC article, they said the protections “were ill-considered, harmful to business”.
The bill also includes:
10 personal emergency leave days per year, including two paid days if the employee has been employed for one week or longer (7 days)
three weeks of paid vacation after five years with the same employer
preventing employers from requiring workers to wear high-heels
The Ontario Chamber of Commerce complained the government “jammed a bunch of things into a bill that are causing significant problems”.
Meanwhile, Ontario businesses are raking in the profits, with corporate profits currently at record highs.
This announcement follows a number of pro-business, anti-worker policies enacted by Ford, including cancelling the $15 minimum wage and cutting worker compensation for disabled workers.
https://north99.org/2018/10/01/ontario-business-lobby-calls-additional-paid-domestic-abuse-leave-other-rules-harmful-to-business-begs-ford-to-repeal-it/
Ford To Let Businesses Implement Sexist Dress Code, Force Women to Wear High Heels At Work
Businesses were accused of unfairly targeting women who disobeyed the dress code.
October 3, 2018
Doug Ford plans to roll-back worker protection laws, including rules that made it illegal for businesses to force women to wear high heels on the job.
Bill 148 Fair Workplaces, Better Jobs Act, brought worker protections into the 21st century. As part of multiple new laws, businesses cannot require women to wear high heels on the job “unless it is required for the worker to perform his or her work safely”.
Women faced, and continue to face pressure to conform to sexist dress codes, with many losing shift work or their jobs if they did not wear high heels.
Other laws in Bill 148 include additional vacation days, paid sick leave and additional time off for victims of domestic abuse.
Doug Ford says he plans to scrap Bill 148 because it hurts businesses. Business lobby groups say the bill’s requirements, including limiting their ability to tell women how to dress, is “ill-considered” and “harmful to business”.
Meanwhile, Ontario businesses have never done better, with corporate profits currently at record highs.
https://north99.org/2018/10/03/ford-to-let-businesses-force-women-to-wear-high-heels-at-work/
They want to end pro-worker policies.
October 1, 2018
Two of Ontario’s corporate business lobby groups are calling on Ford to repeal A Plan for Fair Workplaces and Better Jobs (Bill 148).
Included in the bill is a provision that allows workers or their children who experience domestic or sexual violence, or the threat of domestic or sexual violence, to take additional time off.
The previous rules only allowed workers to take five paid days. As part of Bill 148, employees or their children facing or experiencing violence can take an additional five days of paid leave on top of the previous five, and up to 15 weeks of unpaid leave.
The Retail Council of Canada is calling on Ford to cancel these changes and roll-back Bill 148. In a CBC article, they said the protections “were ill-considered, harmful to business”.
The bill also includes:
10 personal emergency leave days per year, including two paid days if the employee has been employed for one week or longer (7 days)
three weeks of paid vacation after five years with the same employer
preventing employers from requiring workers to wear high-heels
The Ontario Chamber of Commerce complained the government “jammed a bunch of things into a bill that are causing significant problems”.
Meanwhile, Ontario businesses are raking in the profits, with corporate profits currently at record highs.
This announcement follows a number of pro-business, anti-worker policies enacted by Ford, including cancelling the $15 minimum wage and cutting worker compensation for disabled workers.
https://north99.org/2018/10/01/ontario-business-lobby-calls-additional-paid-domestic-abuse-leave-other-rules-harmful-to-business-begs-ford-to-repeal-it/
Ford To Let Businesses Implement Sexist Dress Code, Force Women to Wear High Heels At Work
Businesses were accused of unfairly targeting women who disobeyed the dress code.
October 3, 2018
Doug Ford plans to roll-back worker protection laws, including rules that made it illegal for businesses to force women to wear high heels on the job.
Bill 148 Fair Workplaces, Better Jobs Act, brought worker protections into the 21st century. As part of multiple new laws, businesses cannot require women to wear high heels on the job “unless it is required for the worker to perform his or her work safely”.
Women faced, and continue to face pressure to conform to sexist dress codes, with many losing shift work or their jobs if they did not wear high heels.
Other laws in Bill 148 include additional vacation days, paid sick leave and additional time off for victims of domestic abuse.
Doug Ford says he plans to scrap Bill 148 because it hurts businesses. Business lobby groups say the bill’s requirements, including limiting their ability to tell women how to dress, is “ill-considered” and “harmful to business”.
Meanwhile, Ontario businesses have never done better, with corporate profits currently at record highs.
https://north99.org/2018/10/03/ford-to-let-businesses-force-women-to-wear-high-heels-at-work/
