Bill 124 explained in plain English
Capping Top Public Sector Salaries Act, 2015
Ontario legislature bill summary, status, timeline, sponsor, votes, and official sources.
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Official Legislative Assembly of Ontario snapshot for 41st Parliament, 1st 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, 2015, limits public sector employee salaries to twice the Premier's annual salary, with specific exceptions.
This Ontario bill, the Capping Top Public Sector Salaries Act, 2015, sets a limit on the salaries of public sector employees. It states that a public sector employee's annual salary cannot be more than double the Premier's annual salary. However, there are exceptions for salaries that were already set before the bill became law, salaries agreed upon in collective agreements, and salaries for specific scientific or technical jobs as defined by regulations. If this Act conflicts with another Act, this Act takes precedence. The bill also allows for regulations to be made regarding the exceptions for scientific and technical roles.
- Establishes a cap on the annual salary of public sector employees, setting the maximum at twice the Premier's annual salary.
- Provides specific exceptions to this salary cap, including for salaries established before the Act came into force, salaries set by collective agreements, and certain prescribed scientific or technical positions.
- Grants the Lieutenant Governor in Council the authority to make regulations for the purposes of defining prescribed positions with scientific or technical functions.
- States that this Act prevails in the event of a conflict with any other Act.
- Defines key terms such as 'employee', 'public sector', 'prescribed', and 'salary' by referencing the Public Sector Salary Disclosure Act, 1996.
- Public sector employees in Ontario
- The Premier of Ontario (whose salary is used as a benchmark)
- The Lieutenant Governor in Council (responsible for making regulations)
- Public sector employees have a right to a salary that does not exceed twice the Premier's annual salary, subject to specific exceptions.
- The government has an obligation to ensure public sector salaries comply with the cap set by the Act.
- Certain employees may have their salaries protected if they were established before the Act's commencement or under a collective agreement.
- Employees in prescribed scientific or technical roles may be exempt from the salary cap.
- The Act came into force on the day it received Royal Assent.
- The specific positions that qualify for the 'scientific or technical nature' exception are not detailed in the Act itself but will be defined by regulations. The text does not specify when these regulations will be made or what they will contain.
- The Act does not specify the exact amount of the Premier's salary, only that it is defined in the Executive Council Act.
- The Act does not specify what happens if a salary was established before the Act's commencement but is later renegotiated under a collective agreement.
This is the new law that creates the salary cap for top public sector employees and its exceptions.
This Act uses the definitions of 'employee', 'public sector', and 'salary' as defined in the Public Sector Salary Disclosure Act, 1996.
The determination of the Premier's annual salary, which is used to set the cap, refers to sections of the Executive Council Act.
The Lieutenant Governor in Council is empowered to create regulations to specify which positions are considered prescribed for scientific or technical functions, which are exceptions to the salary cap.
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