{"id":7615,"date":"2017-10-31T15:11:37","date_gmt":"2017-10-31T19:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=7615"},"modified":"2017-10-31T15:16:57","modified_gmt":"2017-10-31T19:16:57","slug":"fair-wage-bill-would-complicate-public-safety-emergency-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2017\/10\/31\/fair-wage-bill-would-complicate-public-safety-emergency-response\/","title":{"rendered":"“Fair Wage” Bill Would Complicate Public Safety, Emergency Response"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Association of Municipalities of Ontario President Lynn Dollin<\/span> was at Queen’s Park today advocating for changes that would ensure effective and affordable public safety\/emergency response.<\/p>\n

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“We depend on on-call and stand-by workers to step in during major storms, disasters, and other emergencies,” said Lynn Dollin<\/span>, AMO President. “Collective agreements are negotiated to reflect these unique roles, and ensure fair compensation and treatment for these important workers.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Dollin is seeking amendments to fix the unintended consequences of Bill 148, the Fair Workplaces, Better Jobs Act.\u00a0<\/i>For example, the bill would require matching pay for full-time and stand-by workers, and additional payments for on-call work, even volunteer firefighters. Volunteer firefighters are on a “call list” rather than being on-call. They choose to respond to a call and are only paid for the hours that they work.<\/p>\n

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“The Province agrees that municipal governments weren’t the intended target of this bill. In fact, municipal governments are employers of choice within their communities,” Dollin said.<\/p>\n

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Municipal governments have been tallying the costs of the Bill 148’s requirements. For some small and large urban municipalities, the costs are upwards of $1 to $2 million<\/span> per year.<\/p>\n

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“Across Ontario<\/span> municipal costs are already rising at about $1 billion<\/span> per year, often driven by provincial laws and this is a textbook example,” Dollin added. “If they don’t amend the bill, municipalities will be forced to either greatly increase property taxes, reduce local services \u2013 or both.”<\/p>\n

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AMO is a non-profit organization representing almost all of Ontario’s<\/span> 444 municipal governments. AMO supports and enhances strong and effective municipal government in Ontario<\/span> and promotes the value of municipal government as a vital and essential component of Ontario<\/span> and Canada’s<\/span> political system.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Oct 31, 2017 @ 15:11 Association of Municipalities of Ontario President Lynn Dollin was at Queen’s Park today advocating for changes that would ensure effective and affordable public safety\/emergency response.   “We depend on on-call and stand-by workers to step in during major storms, disasters, and other emergencies,” said Lynn Dollin, AMO President. “Collective agreements …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[959,958],"class_list":["post-7615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-provincial","tag-better-jobs-act","tag-fair-workplaces"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-30 03:48:02","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7616,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7615\/revisions\/7616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}