Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne announced Tuesday pay transparency legislation that would require all publicly advertised job postings to include a salary rate or range, bar employers from asking about past compensation and prohibit
reprisal against employees who do discuss or disclose compensation.
Further, employers will be expressly prohibited from committing
reprisals against employees (or temporary help agency workers) who make such a request and must permit or discuss or disclose their rate of pay to other employees.
It's simply incoherent to say that an employer has to implement a policy detailing how it will respond to a harassment complaint, but is nonetheless free to ignore the policy - and even engage in
reprisals against the employee who made the complaint.
As part of the Ontario Budget Measures Bill 173, which received royal assent on April 19, 2016, the Ontario government has approved amendments to the Securities Act (Ontario)(OSA) that are intended to implement protection for
reprisals against employees who provide information about a possible contravention of Ontario securities law, or a by - law or other regulatory instrument of a recognized self - regulatory organization (SRO), or who are involved in an investigation or proceeding related to the information provided.
Not exact matches
In Canada,
employees can make legal claims
against employers for
reprisal, constructive dismissal, harassment and discrimination when there is a loss of work due to rejecting the sexual advances of another
employee or supervisor.
Where an
employee complains that an employer or person acting on behalf of an employer has contravened the Act by taking
reprisal measures
against them, the
employee may either,