{"id":383064,"date":"2018-10-31T09:54:41","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T08:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/ontario-slashes-minimum-wage-guts-labour-standards\/"},"modified":"2018-10-31T09:54:41","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T08:54:41","slug":"ontario-slashes-minimum-wage-guts-labour-standards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/ontario-slashes-minimum-wage-guts-labour-standards\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontario slashes minimum wage, guts labour standards"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h4>To cheers from big business,<\/h4>\n<h2>Ontario slashes minimum wage, guts labour standards<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Keith Jones<br \/>\n    <br \/>31 October 2018<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>Three days after unveiling legislation that slashes the minimum wage and shreds labour standards, Ontario Conservative Premier Doug Ford was given a rousing reception Friday by business leaders attending an Ontario Chamber of Commerce-sponsored Ontario Economic Summit.<\/p>\n<p>Ford, for his part, appealed to business for its steadfast support in \u201cthe fight ahead\u201d against those opposed to his government\u2019s class war program of draconian social spending cuts, privatization, deregulation, and the gutting of worker rights.<\/p>\n<p>Tabled in the provincial legislature Tuesday, October 23, the Conservatives\u2019 Making Ontario Open for Business Act or Bill 47:<\/p>\n<p>#Rescinds a $1 an hour increase in the minimum wage slated for January 1 and freezes the minimum wage at the current $14 an hour rate for two years, until October 2020, when it will become subject to an annual \u201cinflation adjustment\u201d;<\/p>\n<p>#Restores employers\u2019 unfettered \u201cright\u201d to pay temporary, casual and part-time workers less than full-time staff;<\/p>\n<p>#Abolishes financial penalties for employers cancelling shifts or on-call assignments at the last-minute, while making it easier for employers to fire workers who decline last-minute shifts;<\/p>\n<p>#Replaces 10 days of Personal Emergency Leave, two of which must be paid, with 3 days of \u201csick leave,\u201d 2 days of \u201cfamily responsibility leave\u201d and 2 days of \u201cbereavement leave,\u201d none of which is paid and all of which must be duly documented at the employer\u2019s request;<\/p>\n<p>#Reduces ratios between skilled tradespersons and apprentices across the board, so that in every trade employers will be legally entitled to hire one lower-paid apprentice for every fully-qualified worker (i.e&#8230;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2018\/10\/31\/onmw-o31.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 To cheers from big business, Ontario slashes minimum wage, guts labour standards By Keith Jones 31 October 2018 Three days after unveiling legislation that slashes the minimum wage and shreds labour standards, Ontario Conservative Premier Doug Ford was given a rousing reception Friday by business leaders attending an Ontario Chamber of Commerce-sponsored Ontario Economic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-383064","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}