Bill 107 explained in plain English
Fair Hiring to Support Teachers, Parents and Students 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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The Fair Hiring to Support Teachers, Parents and Students Act, 2013, amends the Education Act to change teacher hiring practices, emphasizing qualifications over seniority and nepotism, and requiring school boards to create and adhere to hiring policies.
This bill, called the Fair Hiring to Support Teachers, Parents and Students Act, 2013, proposes changes to how teachers are hired in Ontario. It aims to prevent hiring practices that overly rely on seniority or nepotism, focusing instead on teaching qualifications. It also requires school boards to establish and follow their own hiring policies. The bill revokes an existing regulation on hiring practices and states that no new regulation can prioritize seniority over other factors like qualifications. The changes would take effect on the day the bill receives Royal Assent.
- Amends the Education Act to change rules around hiring teachers.
- Revokes Ontario Regulation 274/12 (Hiring Practices).
- Prohibits regulations that give greater weight to a teacher's seniority over other factors like qualifications when assigning or appointing teachers.
- Requires every school board to create and maintain a policy for assigning or appointing teachers.
- Requires school board hiring policies to prohibit giving greater weight to nepotism than to other factors, such as teaching qualifications.
- Requires school boards to send their hiring policies to the Minister, make them available for inspection, and post them on their website.
- Defines 'nepotism' for the purposes of hiring practices.
- Teachers (especially occasional teachers)
- School boards
- The Minister of Education
- Parents
- Students
- School boards must establish and maintain a policy for assigning or appointing persons to a teacher position.
- School boards must comply with their established hiring policies.
- School boards must send their policies to the Minister, make them available for inspection, and post them online.
- Regulations made under the Education Act cannot give more weight to seniority than to teaching qualifications for teacher assignments or appointments.
- School board hiring policies must prohibit giving more weight to nepotism than to teaching qualifications.
- The Act comes into force on the day it receives Royal Assent.
- The bill text does not specify the exact consequences for a school board if they fail to establish or comply with a hiring policy, or if a policy does not meet the requirements.
- The bill text does not define 'nepotism' but states that regulations made under the Act can define it, implying this definition may be established later through regulation.
Changes rules related to teacher hiring, including seniority and nepotism, and requires school boards to establish and follow hiring policies.
Source: Bill 107, Section 1 and Section 2
This specific regulation concerning hiring practices is removed.
Source: Bill 107, Section 3
Specifies that such regulations cannot use seniority as a primary factor for ranking teachers for positions if it is given more weight than teaching qualifications.
Source: Bill 107, Section 1(1) and 1(3)
Introduces requirements for school boards to establish and maintain hiring policies, send them to the Minister, make them available for inspection, and post them online.
Source: Bill 107, Section 2(1)
Adds new subsections that outline requirements for school board hiring policies, including prohibiting decisions that give greater weight to nepotism than to other factors like teaching qualifications.
Source: Bill 107, Section 2(2)
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