Ontario Bill 124

• Ontario has to pay public sector workers $6B and counting in Bill 124 compensation

  Ontario is so far on the hook for more than $6 billion in payments to broader public sector workers due to the government's wage restraint legislation being found unconstitutional.

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  Mar 15, 2024
  
• Ontario college faculty get salary boost after Bill 124 struck down

  College faculty members represented by the Ontario Public Service Employees Union will be receiving an additional 6.5 per cent in salary increases over three years.

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  Aug 16, 2023
  
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• Bill 124: Billions at stake as Ontario takes public sector workers to Court of Appeal

  Last November, a judge with the Superior Court of Justice struck down Bill 124, Protecting a Sustainable Public Sector for Future Generations Act, ruling it unconstitutional.

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  Jun 20, 2023
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• Ontario hospital nurses awarded additional pay after Bill 124 struck down

  The 2019 law, known as Bill 124, capped wage increases for the nurses and other public sector workers at one per cent a year for three years.

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  Apr 28, 2023
• Paramedics owed back pay after Bill 124 ruled unconstitutional, arbitrator says

  The law, which capped salary increases for broader public sector workers for three years, was ruled unconstitutional in November, but the government is appealing that.

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  Feb 3, 2023
• Billboards take aim at Bill 124, Ford government’s intention to appeal court ruling

  "The Ford government must forgo an appeal and repeal Bill 124," said Jennifer Carr, the president of PIPSC.

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  Dec 8, 2022
• Doug Ford says he won’t use notwithstanding clause to fight Bill 124 after court ruling

  But Premier Doug Ford says his government still plans to appeal the ruling that was handed down earlier this week.

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  Dec 1, 2022
• Ontario labour leaders celebrate court decision that struck down Bill 124

  The Ford government has already said it plans to appeal the ruling, after an Ontario court said Bill 124 was unconstitutional, siding with a group of unions.

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  Nov 29, 2022
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• Wage cap law does not infringe on Charter, Ontario says in Bill 124 case

  The province says Ontario's wage-cap law on public-sector workers does not infringe constitutional rights.

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  Sep 19, 2022
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• Constitutional challenge of Ontario’s wage-cap bill begins in court

  Groups representing thousands of public sector employees will be going up against the Ontario government in court this week.

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  Sep 12, 2022