On April 11, 2022, Bill 88, the Working for Workers Act, 2022, received Royal Assent in Ontario, thus enacting the Digital Platform Workers’ Rights Act, 2022. The act also:
amends the Employment Standards Act, 2000 (ESA) to exempt certain business and information technology consultants;
requires electronic monitoring policies for employers that employ twenty-five or more employees;
amends the provisions regarding the reservist leave of absence to entitle employees to the leave after three consecutive months of employment (the act has added military skills training to the list of qualifying activities);
amends the Fair Access to Regulated Professions and Compulsory Trades Act, 2006 to require the regulated professions to respond to applications for registration from domestic labour mobility applicants within specific time limits; and
amends the Occupational Health and Safety Act to require employers to provide and maintain naloxone kits in their workplaces if they “become[ ] aware, or ought reasonably to be aware, that there may be a risk of a worker having an opioid overdose at a workplace where that worker performs work for the employer, or where the prescribed circumstances exist.”
The following provides a supplement to our previous article summarizing the provisions of Bill 88.
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