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North Bay Labour Council standing up for Labour Law Reform, and calling for $15 minimum wage

The North Bay and District Labour Council is calling on the province to increase the minimum wage to $15 an hour. Labour Council president Henri Giroux says the Ontario budget is out this Thursday, and he’s worried that it won’t be good enough to support precarious workers. Giroux says they’ve been following the Changing Workplaces Review very closely ever since it started over two years ago, and added they also know the labour laws in Ontario need updating because people are falling through the cracks.

Giroux says a job is supposed to lift people from poverty, not hold them down and force workers in Nipissing to have to choose between paying rent and buying food. In a release, the council claims that precarious workers, people working low-wage, part-time, and unstable jobs, usually in the retail sector or through temp agencies, are falling further behind. As an example, the council says the number one reason why the Children’s Aid Society was able to lockout its front line workers for over three months was because the Executive Director and Board Chair were legally allowed to hire replacement workers.

The release continued to say ending the use of replacement workers is not the only labour law reform that is badly needed. The council says workers need fairer scheduling practices, and access to paid time off when dealing with illness. They finished by saying all workers need to earn the same hourly rate, regardless if they’re hired through a temp agency.

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