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A Labour Market Impact Assessment (French: étude d’impact sur le marché du travail, LMIA) is a document that an employer in Canada may need to receive prior to hiring a foreign worker. [ 1 ] The LMIA program has been noted to be used by fraudulent actors to sell jobs to temporary foreign workers , with them being sold a work permit in ...
The Employment Standards Act, 2000 [1] (the Act) is an Act of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario. The Act regulates employment in the province of Ontario, including wages, maximum work hours, overtime, vacation, and leaves of absence. It differs from the Ontario Labour Relations Act, which regulates unionized labour in Ontario.
The Canada Labour Code (French: Code canadien du travail) is an Act of the Parliament of Canada to consolidate certain statutes respecting labour. The objective of the Code is to facilitate production by controlling strikes & lockouts , occupational safety and health , and some employment standards.
However, this has been criticized as changing the government's role "from enforcers of labour standards to being wage dispute resolvers." [5] Health Services and Support-Facilities Subsector Bargaining Association v British Columbia [2007] [6] Fraser v. Ontario (Attorney General) [2011] [7]
Under the law, contracts should specify total work hours, vacation time, wages, and benefits. However, in a study conducted by a Montreal organization, PINAY, together with the McGill University School of Social Work, it was found that in 25% of the 148 live-in caregivers studied, employers did not sign a contract at all, and 43% claimed that ...
In 2013, 50% of minimum wage workers were between the ages of 15 and 19; in 1997, it was 36%. 50.2% of workers in this age group were paid minimum wage in 2013, an increase from 31.5% in 1997. Statistics Canada notes that "youth, women and persons with a low level of education were the groups most likely to be paid at minimum wage."
The "Bennett New Deal" included the Weekly Rest in Industrial Undertakings Act, the Limitations of Hours of Work Act, the Minimum Wages Act, the National Products Marketing Act, the Employment and Social Insurance Act, the Farmers Creditor's Arrangement Act, the Dominion Trade and Industry Commission Act and section 498A of the Criminal Code ...
The Hon. Sir William Ralph Meredith, Chief Justice of Ontario, is the founding father of Workmen's Compensation in Ontario and by extension Canada. [2]In 1910, Ontario Premier Sir James Whitney [1905 - 1914] appointed Sir William Meredith to head the first Royal Commission into the "laws relating to the liability of employers to make compensation to their employees for injuries received in the ...