Proposed changes to…

Proposed changes to Employment Standards Act and Labour Relations Act should be dropped.
The proposal is that employers be given the right to demand that workers exceed a 48 hour work week and to not be paid for some overtime. The fiction that the worker can "agree" to this is a lie. The worker would be choosing to take or not to take the job. To pretend otherwise is just misleading the public. If public bodies such as school boards etc. are hiring employees to do construction work, why should they not be constructors. Is this to protect them from following health and safety regulations? That is not acceptible.

The whole "Open for Business" proposal should be scrapped. Ontario is already open for business. Why should employers suddenly be exempt from following environmental and planning controls? There is no sensible reason for this. We should be continuing to protect water, the greenbelt, the environment. The environmental and planning requirements are not "unnecessary'. They should be necessary for everyone.

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