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Ontario PM vows to scrap equal pay, minimum wage law

Ontario Premier Doug Ford announced earlier this month plans [1] to scrap labor reform legislation passed last year that raised the province’s minimum wage and mandated equal pay for temporary workers [2].

Key provisions of the bill went into effect April 1. The minimum wage was raised to $14 an hour from $11.60 earlier this year and set to climb to $15 in January. Ford announced to the legislature that the minimum wage would be held at $14 per hour and the rest of the bill would be eliminated [3].

Ford, a progressive conservative, became premier in June. Bill 148 was passed last year under the liberal party. Ford claims the bill has cost Ontario 60,000 jobs. However, the Ottowa Sun reports employment overall between the bill’s passage and this past August has grown to 8.4 million [3] jobs from 8.2 million.

 

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