Bill 57 explained in plain English
Capping Top Public Sector Salaries Act, 2010
Ontario legislature bill summary, status, timeline, sponsor, votes, and official sources.
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Official Legislative Assembly of Ontario snapshot for 39th Parliament, 2nd Session. Representative vote breakdowns appear when the Assembly publishes an Ayes and Nays page for the bill.
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The Capping Top Public Sector Salaries Act, 2010, limits public sector employee salaries to twice the Premier's salary, with exceptions for pre-existing salaries and those under collective agreements.
This Act, titled the Capping Top Public Sector Salaries Act, 2010, sets a limit on the annual salaries of public sector employees in Ontario. It states that no public sector employee's salary can be more than double the Premier's annual salary. However, there are exceptions for salaries that were already in place before the Act came into effect, or for salaries that are set through a collective agreement. If this Act conflicts with another law, this Act takes precedence.
- Establishes a maximum annual salary for public sector employees.
- Specifies that this maximum salary is twice the Premier's annual salary.
- Provides exceptions for salaries established before the Act came into force.
- Provides exceptions for salaries established under a collective agreement.
- States that this Act prevails in cases of conflict with other legislation.
- Public sector employees in Ontario
- The Premier of Ontario (whose salary is used as a benchmark)
- Public sector employees have a right to an annual salary that does not exceed twice the Premier's annual salary, subject to exceptions.
- Public sector employees whose salaries were established before the Act came into force are exempt from the salary cap.
- Public sector employees whose salaries are established under a collective agreement are exempt from the salary cap.
- The Act came into force on the day it received Royal Assent.
- The exact amount of the Premier's annual salary, which determines the cap, is not specified within this Act but is referenced from the Executive Council Act.
- The specific scope of 'public sector employee' is defined by reference to another Act, the Public Sector Salary Disclosure Act, 1996, which is not included in this text.
Defines 'public sector employee' and 'salary' by referring to this Act.
Source: Section 1
References the Premier's annual salary as defined in this Act to set the salary cap.
Source: Section 2
This is the Act itself, establishing the salary cap and related provisions.
Source: All Sections
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