Issue 12 is now available online! Read our quarterly newsletter about the ministry’s strategies for improving work place health and safety. Features: Interview with the Provincial Ergonomist Workplace Violence Prevention in Health Care New JHSC Standards Amendments to the Mines and Mining Plants Regulation Material Handling Focus of Enforcement Blitz Mine Safety Blitz Targets Training […]
Minimum Wage Increase Ontario raised the general minimum wage from $11 to $11.25 per hour, effective Oct.1, 2015. Minimum wage rates for jobs in special categories (liquor servers, homeworkers, students, etc.) have also increased as well. Learn More Gender Wage Gap Consultations Ontario’s gender wage gap – the difference between wages earned by men and […]
Photo:Rob LeFurgy with General David Petraeus. Original article can be found in the LaborPress – October 14, 2015 By Joe Maniscalco New York, NY – Four years ago, Local 361 apprentice Rob LeFurgy wasn’t even sure what an ironworker did. All the decorated Iraqi war veteran knew for certain was that he sorely missed the brotherhood and […]