Bill 6 explained in plain English
Jobs and Jabs Act, 2021
Ontario legislature bill summary, status, timeline, sponsor, votes, and official sources.
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Official Legislative Assembly of Ontario snapshot for 42nd Parliament, 2nd Session. Representative vote breakdowns appear when the Assembly publishes an Ayes and Nays page for the bill.
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The Jobs and Jabs Act, 2021 amends Ontario's Employment Standards Act, 2000 to prohibit employers from penalizing employees based on their vaccination status or refusal to disclose it, with a mandatory reinstatement for dismissed employees, effective September 1, 2021.
This bill, titled the Jobs and Jabs Act, 2021, makes changes to Ontario's Employment Standards Act, 2000. It aims to protect employees from certain actions by their employers related to their COVID-19 vaccination status. Specifically, it prevents employers from intimidating, firing, putting on leave, or otherwise penalizing employees because of their vaccination status or their refusal to share it. However, this protection does not apply if the employer's action is to comply with requirements under the Child Care and Early Years Act, 2014. If an employer is found to have wrongfully dismissed or terminated an employee under these new rules, an employment standards officer must order the employee's reinstatement. The bill also includes a definition for 'vaccination status'. The changes are considered to have been in effect since September 1, 2021.
- Prohibits employers from intimidating, dismissing, placing on leave, or otherwise penalizing an employee, or threatening to do so, because of the employee's vaccination status.
- Prohibits employers from intimidating, dismissing, placing on leave, or otherwise penalizing an employee, or threatening to do so, because the employee refuses to disclose their vaccination status.
- Creates an exception to these prohibitions for actions taken to comply with the Child Care and Early Years Act, 2014.
- Requires employment standards officers to order the reinstatement of an employee if the officer finds that an employer contravened the new prohibition by dismissing or terminating the employee's employment.
- Adds a definition for 'vaccination status' to the Employment Standards Act, 2000.
- Deems the Act to have come into force on September 1, 2021.
- Employees in Ontario
- Employers in Ontario
- Employees have a right not to be intimidated, dismissed, placed on leave, or penalized by their employer due to their vaccination status or refusal to disclose it, with an exception for compliance with the Child Care and Early Years Act, 2014.
- Employers have an obligation not to intimidate, dismiss, place on leave, or penalize employees, or threaten to do so, based on vaccination status or refusal to disclose it, except when complying with the Child Care and Early Years Act, 2014.
- Employment standards officers have a duty to order reinstatement if an employer is found to have wrongfully dismissed or terminated an employee under the new provisions.
- The Act is deemed to have come into force on September 1, 2021.
- If an employer is found to have contravened the new prohibition by dismissing or terminating an employee, an employment standards officer must order the employee's reinstatement.
- The bill does not specify what constitutes 'intimidation', 'penalize', or 'threaten' in the context of vaccination status.
- The scope of 'person acting on behalf of an employer' is not detailed.
- The specific requirements under the Child Care and Early Years Act, 2014 that trigger the exception are not listed within this bill.
Adds a definition for 'vaccination status' and a new prohibition against employer reprisals based on vaccination status, along with a mandatory reinstatement requirement for dismissed employees.
Source: Section 1, Section 74, Section 104
An exception to the new reprisal protections is provided for employers complying with requirements under this Act.
Source: Section 74 (1.2)
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