B.C. is changing its employment standards law to protect younger workers from dangerous jobs, and strengthen employees91裸聊视频� ability to take unpaid leave to search for a home or deal with other personal issues.
Labour Minister Harry Bains introduced in the B.C. legislature Monday that prohibits employers from withholding of tips from employees or deducting amounts from them. A new framework will allow tip pooling, but employers can only get a share when they do the same work as the other people in the pool.
The legislation raises the minimum age for working from 12 to 16, except for 91裸聊视频渓ight work91裸聊视频� jobs such as stocking shelves at a grocery store, which 14- and 15-year-olds would still be able to do.
Bains said the changes will continue to allow young people to work on a family farm, or have a newspaper delivery route, and there will be an exemption for children to perform in music and entertainment with the permission of their parents. Chores that are not considered formal employment will not be affected, he said.
Bains said WorkSafeBC records in the past 10 years show $5 million paid out in injury claims for children who were doing paid work in hazardous conditions.
Labour Min describes need for changes to employment standards
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The legislation also creates a new system of job-protected unpaid leave for caring for seriously ill family members, and personal issues such as looking for a place to live.
The B.C. Building Trades praised the changes, particularly measures to target what executive director Tom Sigurdson called 91裸聊视频渙rganizations operating under the guise of being a trade union91裸聊视频� whose agreements may be 91裸聊视频渟ubstandard91裸聊视频� according to the Employment Standards Act.
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91裸聊视频淭here are a few organizations that purport to be unions but are really nothing more than dues collection agencies,91裸聊视频� Sigurdson said. 91裸聊视频淭hose organizations are employer-obedient and do nothing to represent workers91裸聊视频� interests.91裸聊视频�
The B.C. Building Trades were given exclusive access for large public construction projects after Premier John Horgan91裸聊视频檚 government took office in 2017, prompting objections from contractors who work with the Christian Labour Association of Canada and others who are not B.C. Building Trades members. The BCBC consists mainly of U.S.-based international unions.
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