Bill 113 explained in plain English
Comprehensive Pay Fairness Act, 2013
Ontario legislature bill summary, status, timeline, sponsor, votes, and official sources.
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Official Legislative Assembly of Ontario snapshot for 40th Parliament, 2nd Session. Representative vote breakdowns appear when the Assembly publishes an Ayes and Nays page for the bill.
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This Act establishes a division to collect and publish compensation information for public sector employees, requiring arbitrators to consider this data when settling collective agreements.
The Comprehensive Pay Fairness Act, 2013, establishes a division within the Ministry of Finance called the Comprehensive Pay Fairness Division. This division is tasked with collecting and publishing information about compensation for public sector employees, including comparisons with private sector employees. Arbitrators or arbitration boards making decisions on collective agreements for public sector employees must consider this published information. The Act also mandates that public sector employers consult with bargaining agents and employees when negotiating collective agreements or compensation, while also considering the employer's fiscal health. The resources for the new division are to come only from existing allocations to the Ministry of Finance.
- Establishes the Comprehensive Pay Fairness Division within the Ministry of Finance.
- Requires the Comprehensive Pay Fairness Division to collect and publish information on public sector employee compensation, including comparisons with the private sector.
- Requires arbitrators and arbitration boards to consider the published information when making decisions on public sector collective agreements.
- Requires public sector employers to consult with bargaining agents and employees when negotiating collective agreements or compensation, taking into account fiscal health.
- Authorizes the Minister of Finance to collect employment and compensation information from public and private sector employers for the Division.
- Requires arbitrators to file copies of decisions or awards settling collective agreements with the Division.
- States that the budget and staff of the new Division must be drawn from existing resources allocated to the Ministry of Finance.
- Public sector employers
- Public sector employees
- Private sector employers
- Private sector employees
- Bargaining agents representing public sector employees
- Arbitrators and arbitration boards
- Ministry of Finance
- Public sector employers must consult fully with bargaining agents and employees when bargaining for collective agreements or compensation, and consider the employer's fiscal health.
- Arbitrators making decisions or awards settling public sector collective agreements must consider the information published by the Comprehensive Pay Fairness Division.
- Arbitrators must file copies of decisions or awards settling collective agreements with the Comprehensive Pay Fairness Division.
- The Minister of Finance may request, and public sector or private sector employers must comply with requests for, information about employment terms and conditions, including compensation.
- The Act comes into force on the day it receives Royal Assent.
- The budget and staff of the Comprehensive Pay Fairness Division are to be drawn only from resources already allocated to the Ministry of Finance.
- The Act aims to address Ontario's debt by providing alternatives to public sector layoffs and government program cuts, and by reducing fiscal pressure on Ontarians.
- Public sector or private sector employers must comply with requests for information from the Minister of Finance.
- Arbitrators must file decisions or awards with the Comprehensive Pay Fairness Division.
- The exact scope of information to be collected and published by the Comprehensive Pay Fairness Division is not fully detailed beyond specific examples.
- The Act does not specify penalties for non-compliance by employers with information requests.
The Act comes into force on the day it receives Royal Assent.
Source: Section 7
This Act establishes the Comprehensive Pay Fairness Division and sets out its duties, including collecting and publishing compensation information and requiring consideration of this information in arbitrations.
Source: Sections 1-8
This Act uses the definitions of 'public sector', 'public sector employee', and 'public sector employer' as defined in the Public Sector Salary Disclosure Act, 1996.
Source: Section 1
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