{"id":9071,"date":"2018-01-03T14:51:38","date_gmt":"2018-01-03T19:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clgw.ca\/Admin\/?p=9071"},"modified":"2018-01-03T14:56:07","modified_gmt":"2018-01-03T19:56:07","slug":"9071","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.clgw.ca\/Admin\/2018\/01\/03\/9071\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill 148 Changes for 2018 (Fair Workplaces, Better Jobs Act) as of January 1, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

A printable PDF version of this memo can be downloaded by clicking this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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TO: All Employees<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

FROM: <\/strong>Tricia Vogel, HR Manager<\/p>\n

SUBJECT: <\/strong>Bill 148 Changes for 2018 (Fair Workplaces, Better Jobs Act) as of January 1, 2018<\/p>\n

DATE: <\/strong>January 3, 2018<\/p>\n

Hi everyone:<\/p>\n

As you may be aware there have been some major changes to Bill 148 which amends the Employment Standards Act and the Labour Relations Act, which received Royal Assent on Monday, November 27. Although different changes in Bill 148 have different effective dates, some became effective on January 1, 2018, which the below summarizes. For changes coming into effect after January 1, 2018 there will be a subsequent memo being sent out by Feb 1 will with the remaining changes and\/or impacts.<\/p>\n

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Date<\/td>\nChange Highlight<\/td>\nImpact to CLGW Employees<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
December 3, 2017<\/td>\nExtensions to the unpaid parental and critical illness leaves of absence<\/td>\nParental Leave:<\/strong> The length of parental leave is extended from 35<\/strong> weeks to 61<\/strong> weeks for employees who have taken a pregnancy leave, and from 37 weeks to 63 weeks for employees who have not<\/p>\n

Critical Illness Leave:<\/strong> This leave replaces the former \u201cCritically ill Child Care Leave\u201d and is available to employees with at least six months\u2019 service. The leave provides for the following:<\/p>\n

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  • an unpaid leave of up to 37 weeks to care for a critically ill minor child (i.e. who is under 18 years of age and a family member)<\/li>\n
  • an unpaid leave of up to 17 weeks to care for a critically ill adult who is a family member. \u201cFamily members\u201d is broadly defined.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

     <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

January 1, 2018<\/td>\n\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Increased minimum wage<\/p>\n

\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Increased vacation for employees with more than five years of service<\/u><\/em><\/td>\n

Minimum wage:<\/strong> increase according to the following schedule:<\/p>\n

\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 January 1, 2018: $14 per hour for most employees<\/p>\n

\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 January 1, 2019: $15 per hour for most employees<\/p>\n

**No direct impact presently to wages as our rates are all above these minimums<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Vacation:<\/strong> Bill 148 provides that employers must provide at least three weeks\u2019 paid vacation on to employees with at least five years\u2019 service.<\/p>\n

**This will impact our relief staff whom presently have more than 5 years of service. These employees will receive an increase from 4% to 6% <\/em><\/strong>(which is equivalent to 3 weeks of paid vacation time).<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

January 1, 2018<\/td>\n\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 New and extended leaves of absence<\/td>\nLeaves of absence:<\/strong><\/p>\n

1) Personal emergency leave:<\/strong><\/p>\n

All employers will be required to provide the personal emergency leave (PEL), which includes that employers pay regular wages for the first two days of the leave.<\/p>\n

**This will impact Part-time and Relief Staff who currently do not receive any paid sick benefits under the CBA. For any PT or Relief staff who call in for reasons that PEL may be taken for as outlined by the ESA (see https:\/\/www.ontario.ca\/document\/your-guide-employment-standards-act\/personal-emergency-leave<\/a>), the employee will be paid for the regular hours of the relevant scheduled shift. For example if the shift in which the employee called in for is 6 hours, they will be paid for 6 hours.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Full-time staff already receive a greater benefit; therefore there will be no changes to their current paid sick time allotment.<\/p>\n

2) Family medical leave:<\/strong> Family medical leave is extended from 8 weeks to 28 where a family member has a serious medical condition on with a significant risk of death occurring in 26 weeks or less.<\/p>\n

3) Domestic or sexual violence leave:<\/strong> New leave for employees who have been employed for at least 13 consecutive weeks and if they or their child experiences or (there is a threat of) domestic or sexual violence. The first five days of leave, each calendar year, will be paid, the rest will be unpaid.<\/p>\n

4) Child death leave:<\/strong> Bill 148 replaces the former \u201cCrime Related Child Death or Disappearance Leave\u201d with two distinct leaves: \u201cChild Death Leave\u201d and \u201cCrime\u2010Related Child Disappearance Leave.\u201d Each provides an employee with at least six months\u2019 service with unpaid leave of up to 104 weeks.<\/p>\n

5) Pregnancy leave: <\/strong>Where an employee has a still-birth or miscarriage they are now entitled 12 weeks of leave, instead of 6 weeks of leave.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

January 1, 2018<\/td>\nLabour Relations Act changes<\/td>\nAs we are already unionized there is no impact here<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
January 1, 2018<\/td>\nPublic Holidays<\/td>\nSimplified calculation has been created as follows:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Total amount of regular wages earned in the pay period immediately before January 1, 2018 \u00f7 by the # of days worked in that period<\/p>\n

If the employee was on vacation or on a leave under section 50 of the Employment Standards Act, 2000, during the entire pay period immediately before the January 1, 2018, public holiday, then calculation is based on the pay period before the start of the leave or vacation.<\/p>\n

**As the old calculation looked at earnings in the last 4 week period, this new calculation will apply to all staff<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A printable PDF version of this memo can be downloaded by clicking this link.<\/p>\n

TO: All Employees<\/p>\n

FROM: Tricia Vogel, HR Manager<\/p>\n

SUBJECT: Bill 148 Changes for 2018 (Fair Workplaces, Better Jobs Act) as of January 1, 2018<\/p>\n

DATE: January 3, 2018<\/p>\n

Hi everyone:<\/p>\n

As you may be aware there have been some major changes . . . → Read More: Bill 148 Changes for 2018 (Fair Workplaces, Better Jobs Act) as of January 1, 2018<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-staff-info","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.clgw.ca\/Admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.clgw.ca\/Admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.clgw.ca\/Admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.clgw.ca\/Admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.clgw.ca\/Admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9071"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/old.clgw.ca\/Admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9077,"href":"https:\/\/old.clgw.ca\/Admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9071\/revisions\/9077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.clgw.ca\/Admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.clgw.ca\/Admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.clgw.ca\/Admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}