Proposed changes will improve complaint processes, speed up complaint resolution

Province’s lowest-paid workers will get raise to keep pace with inflation

Workers with a serious illness or injury can now take as many as 27 weeks of unpaid, job-protected leave within a 12-month period to undergo medical treatment and focus on their recovery.

Effective immediately, new rules limit when employers can ask for sick notes and will allow more time for health-care providers to spend with patients.

Workers with a serious illness or injury will have improved job protection under a proposed amendment to the Employment Standards Act.