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Lilly Ledbetter, an former Alabama factory manager whose lawsuit against her employer made her an icon of the equal pay movement and led to landmark wage discrimination legislation, has died at 86. Ledbetter’s discovery that she was earning less than her male counterparts for doing the same job at a …
Read More »Ontario councillor gets severe pay penalty as Pickering wants stronger recourse
A councillor in a southern Ontario city has been issued a 90-day pay suspension – the most severe penalty possible under current rules – after the municipality’s integrity commissioner found she has been demonstrating a continued pattern of “unacceptable behaviour” that risks hurting marginalized members of society. It’s the latest …
Read More »Manitobans can pay respects to late grand chief Merrick at legislature Wednesday – Winnipeg
Manitobans are invited to pay their respects to the late Cathy Merrick at the Manitoba legislature on Wednesday afternoon. Merrick, who had served as grand chief of the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs since 2022, died suddenly on Friday at 62 after collapsing outside a Winnipeg courthouse while speaking with reporters. She …
Read More »Marineland ordered to pay $85k after 3 bears kept in cramped quarters for months
Marineland has been ordered to pay nearly $85,000 in fines and restitution after it was found guilty under Ontario’s animal cruelty laws of three charges related to its care of three black bears. The amount, which was jointly proposed by lawyers for the Crown and Marineland, includes a $15,000 fine …
Read More »Tenant doesn’t pay $41,000 in rent for Toronto condo but owner can’t evict her yet
Narinder Singh of Brampton, Ont., says he and his wife bought their condo apartment in Etobicoke as an investment for retirement. “We worked for decades to save, penny by penny, for our old age,” said Singh, who runs a drycleaning business inside a Brampton supermarket. But since 2020, Singh says …
Read More »Ontario family receives massive hospital bill as part of LTC law, refuses to pay
A southwestern Ontario woman has received an $8,400 bill from a hospital in Windsor, Ont., after she refused to put her mother in a nursing home she hated – and she says she has no intention of paying it. Michele Campeau and her 83-year-old mother, Ruth Poupard, are caught up in a …
Read More »Ontario hospital workers awarded 6% pay increase, new agreement on agency nurses
Descrease article font size Increase article font size Some 65,000 unionized hospital workers in Ontario have been awarded a pay increase of six per cent over two years in an arbitration decision. Workers represented by the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions — CUPE (OCHU-CUPE) and SEIU Healthcare — will have …
Read More »Pay transparency laws: How disclosing salary ranges can help or hurt workers
Workers in Ontario might soon have a better sense of how much they’ll be paid for a role, but experts warn proposed legislation announced this week can have a series of knock-on effects that can both help and hinder employees and employers alike. The Ontario government announced plans Tuesday to …
Read More »Senior Ontario politicians pay respect on Remembrance Day
Descrease article font size Increase article font size Ontario Premier Doug Ford paid tribute to veterans as Remembrance Day was observed around the province. The provincial government hosted a ceremony at Ontario’s Veterans’ Memorial near the provincial legislature on Saturday morning. “These heroes, who made the ultimate sacrifice, defended our …
Read More »Ontario college staff land retroactive Bill 124 pay after legislation struck down
Support workers at colleges in Ontario are the latest group to land extra pay after Bill 124 was struck down by a court. Around 9,000 support staff represented by the Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU) negotiated a pay increase of 9.5 per cent, backdated over three years, the union …
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