Bill 91 explained in plain English
Helping Ontarians Enter the Skilled Trades Act, 2012
Ontario legislature bill summary, status, timeline, sponsor, votes, and official sources.
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Bill 91 amends the Trades Qualification and Apprenticeship Act to limit the number of apprentices per journeyperson and remove the power to make regulations on this ratio.
This bill, titled the Helping Ontarians Enter the Skilled Trades Act, 2012, amends the Trades Qualification and Apprenticeship Act. It changes the rules about how many apprentices an employer can have. Specifically, it sets a limit on the ratio of apprentices to journeypersons (skilled tradespeople) that an employer can have. It also removes the government's ability to make regulations about this ratio.
- Amends the Trades Qualification and Apprenticeship Act.
- Establishes a new rule that limits the number of apprentices an employer can hire in a trade.
- Removes the Lieutenant Governor in Council's power to make regulations concerning the ratio of apprentices to journeypersons in a trade.
- States that existing apprenticeship contracts will continue until their completion, even if they don't meet the new ratio requirements.
- Employers in skilled trades in Ontario
- Apprentices in skilled trades in Ontario
- Journeypersons in skilled trades in Ontario
- Employers are limited to hiring one apprentice plus an additional apprentice for each additional journeyperson they employ and work with in a trade, if the employer is a journeyperson.
- Employers who are not journeypersons are limited to hiring one apprentice for each journeyperson they employ and work with in a trade.
- Existing apprenticeship contracts will remain valid until their completion unless terminated.
- The Act comes into force on the day it receives Royal Assent.
- The bill text does not specify what happens if an existing contract for apprenticeship does not meet the new ratio requirements, beyond stating that such contracts continue until completion.
- The bill does not provide a definition for 'journeyperson' or specify how the 'additional apprentice for each additional journeyperson' is calculated if an employer has multiple journeypersons.
- The specific date of Royal Assent is not provided in the bill text.
Changes the rules regarding the ratio of apprentices to journeypersons in trades and removes the power to create regulations on this topic.
Source: Explanatory Note, Section 1
Introduces new rules specifying that if an employer is a journeyperson, they can have one apprentice plus an additional apprentice for each other journeyperson they employ and work with. If the employer is not a journeyperson, they can have one apprentice for each journeyperson they employ and work with.
Source: Section 1
Removes the provision that allowed for regulations to be made regarding the ratio of apprentices to journeypersons employed by an employer in a trade.
Source: Section 2
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