Bill 10 explained in plain English
Stopping Harassment and Abuse by Local Leaders Act, 2022
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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Bill 10, the Stopping Harassment and Abuse by Local Leaders Act, 2021, mandates that municipal leaders comply with workplace violence and harassment policies and allows for their removal from office if they fail to do so.
This bill requires municipal councillors and members of local boards in Ontario to follow workplace violence and harassment policies established by their municipalities or local boards. If a councillor or board member does not follow these policies, and an Integrity Commissioner reports this, the municipality or board can ask the court to remove the member from their seat. However, this process cannot happen during an election period.
- Amends the Municipal Act, 2001 and the City of Toronto Act, 2006.
- Requires codes of conduct for municipal councillors and members of local boards to include compliance with workplace violence and harassment policies.
- Allows municipalities and local boards to direct their Integrity Commissioner to apply to a court to vacate a member's seat if they contravene the code of conduct by failing to comply with workplace violence or harassment policies.
- Prohibits applications to vacate a member's seat from occurring during regular election periods.
- Establishes the court process for determining if a member's seat should be declared vacant due to contravening these policies.
- Municipal councillors in Ontario
- Members of local boards in Ontario
- Municipalities
- Local boards (restricted definition)
- Integrity Commissioners appointed by municipalities and local boards
- The Superior Court of Justice
- Municipal councillors and local board members have an obligation to comply with workplace violence and harassment policies established by their municipality or local board.
- Municipalities and local boards have the ability to direct their Integrity Commissioner to apply to court to vacate a member's seat for contravening the code of conduct regarding these policies.
- Members of council and local boards have a right to not have an application to vacate their seat made during an election period.
- The Act came into force on the day it received Royal Assent.
- If a judge determines a member has contravened the code of conduct by failing to comply with workplace violence or harassment policies, the judge may declare the member's seat vacant.
- The bill does not specify what constitutes 'workplace violence or harassment' beyond requiring compliance with established policies.
- The bill does not detail the specific penalties that a municipality or local board can impose for contravening a code of conduct, beyond the ability to direct an application to vacate a seat.
- The bill does not define 'local boards (restricted definition)' and relies on other legislation for this definition.
Adds new requirements for codes of conduct to include compliance with workplace violence and harassment policies, and allows for the Integrity Commissioner to apply to vacate a member's seat for contravening these policies.
Source: Section 223.2, 223.4, and adds Section 223.4.0.1
Adds new requirements for codes of conduct to include compliance with workplace violence and harassment policies, and allows for the Integrity Commissioner to apply to vacate a member's seat for contravening these policies.
Source: Section 157, 160, and adds Section 160.0.1
This bill requires that workplace violence and harassment policies are established under Section 32.0.1 of this Act, which are then incorporated into the codes of conduct for municipal leaders.
Source: Section 32.0.1
Amends the timing restrictions for applications to vacate a member's seat, specifying that such applications cannot be made during the period from nomination day to voting day in a regular election.
Source: Section 31 and Section 5
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