Ministry of Labour (Ontario)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Jump to: navigation, search

The Ministry of Labour is responsible for labour issues in the Canadian province of Ontario.

The current Minister of Labour is the Honourable Brad Duguid.

The Ministry of Labour and its agencies play a key role in Ontario by promoting safe and healthy workplaces, fairness in employment and stable labour relations. The ministry’s three program responsibilities are delivered from a head office in Toronto and 19 offices organized around four regions, centred in Ottawa, Hamilton, Sudbury and Toronto. As well, the ministry oversees the work of eight specialized agencies.

The Ministry of Labour's core businesses are:

The Ministry of Labour's (MOL's) core Occupational Health and Safety Programs are divided into three specific subject areas. 1: Construction Health and Safety, under the direction of Michael Chappell, CRSP, BSc, CET; 2: Industrial Health and Safety, under the direction of Wayne de Lorme;, and Mining Health and Safety under the direction of (vacant)

The Employment standards program is designed to protect the vulnerbale rights of workers, and address worker complaints for unpaid wages and other violations of the legialtion. This program is carried out under the direction of Brian Lemire.

For public convenience, the MOL is split into 4 Regional territories, 1: Western region - Director Sophie Dennis, 2: Eastern Region - Director Vik Pakalnis, 3: Northern Region - Director Candys Ballanger-Michaud, and Central Region - Director Philby Savouroya

The Ministry of Labour enforces the Occupational Heatlh and Safety Act (OHSA), and the Employment standards Act (ESA2000), which protects the safety of workers, and their employement rights!

Recently, the Government of Ontario added 200 additional Inspectors, demonstrating its commitment to Health and Safety in the Workplaces of Ontario.

 This Ontario-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry_of_Labour_%28Ontario%29"
Advanced Search
Included Web Search Engines


Safe Search

close

Top Matching Results

Occasionally Search.com will highlight specialized results that are based on the context of your query. Examples of specialized results include specific links to news, images, or video.

Top Matching Results may highlight information from other Search.com pages, content from the CNET Network of sites, or third party content. The listings are based purely on relevance. Search.com does not receive payment for listings in this section but our partners that provide this data may get paid for listing these products.

Sponsored Links

This section contains paid listings which have been purchased by companies that want to have their sites appear for specific search terms and related content. These listings are administered, sorted and maintained by a third party and are not endorsed by Search.com.

Search Results

Search.com sends your search query to several search engines at one time and integrates the results into one list which has been sorted by relevance using Search.com's proprietary algorithm. You can customize the list of search engines included in your metasearch from the preferences.

The search engines that are used in your metasearch may allow companies to pay to have their Web sites included within the results. To view the Paid Inclusion policy for a specific search engine, please visit their Web site. Search.com does not accept payment or share revenue with any search engine partner for listings in this section.