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Ontario Government Moves to Freeze Public Sector Wages

Bill 16 (pdf), Creating the Foundation for Jobs and Growth Act, 2010, has passed second reading in the Ontario legislature.  If passed, the Bill would prohibit increases in wage rates, benefits, perquisites or other payments for employees of the Crown, education boards, universities, colleges and technical institutes, hospitals and boards of health, certain crown corporations, and any not-for-profit authority, board or corporation that received at least one million dollars in funding from the Ontario Government. The proposed freeze would apply retroactively to March 24, 2010 and would expire on March 31, 2012.

The freeze would not apply to unionized or non-unionized employees who bargain collectively with their employers.

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