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Vaccination against COVID-19 helps reduce the number of new cases, and, most importantly, severe outcomes including hospitalizations and death due to COVID-19 in residents, service recipients, staff and visitors. The Ministry of…
The Provincial government announced today that they will be investing an additional $169 million to extend the pandemic pay program for personal support workers (“PSWs”) and direct support workers (“DSWs”) until October…
As we discussed in our recent blog, on August 16, 2021, the government of Ontario announced its plan to require employers in the Health, Education and Congregate Care sectors to implement vaccination…
The second pandemic pay program, which began on October 1, 2020, is set to expire on August 23, 2021. The program, which is limited to specific categories of frontline workers, grants developmental…
Yesterday, Ontario announced it will be requiring health care providers, as well as congregate care and day program providers in the developmental services to adopt vaccination policies with certain minimum standards. While…
After more than a decade, the provincial government has finally announced a date to bring the Ontario Not-for-Profit Corporations Act (“ONCA”) into force: October 19, 2021. The enactment of the not-for-profit legislation,…
At long last, the federal Pay Equity Act will come into force on August 31, 2021. The Act was first introduced on October 29, 2018, as part of Bill C-86, the Budget…
In the 2021 Provincial Budget, the Ford government announced the Recruitment and Retention Incentive Program (the “RRI”), a “short-term solution” to help attract more nurses and personal support workers (PSWs) to the…
In late May 2020, the government introduced regulations converting temporary layoffs of non-union employees into unpaid infectious disease leaves under the Employment Standards Act (ESA). The duration of this relief has been repeatedly extended….
In April 2020, the government introduced a “temporary pandemic pay program” for essential workers in health care and congregate care settings. In tandem with this program, the government introduced an emergency order…
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