Ontario is planning to create a compulsory minimal high-quality of $500,000 for employers repeatedly convicted of deadly and different critical well being and security violations.
Labour Minister David Piccini is tabling an omnibus invoice at the moment that expands most cancers protection for firefighters, introduces a job-protected go away for individuals who turn into mother and father by adoption or surrogacy, and requires drivers to maneuver over for building autos.
Piccini says the laws additionally consists of what he calls the hardest obligatory minimal fines in Canada for well being and security violations.
He says employers who’re convicted of a couple of violation of the Occupational Well being and Security Act that resulted within the critical harm or demise of a employee inside a two-year interval, they must pay not less than $500,000.
He says a fatality can’t be the price of doing enterprise.
The invoice additionally goals to crack down on immigration fraud.
This report by The Canadian Press was first printed Nov. 27, 2024.
