Ontario exempts municipalities from costly workplace bill provisions

Ontario municipalities will be exempt from some provisions of the province’s controversial workplace standards bill.
Bill 148, more commonly known as the Fair Workplaces, Better Jobs Act, has been controversial for many of its inclusions, among them an increase in the minimum wage to $15 per hour.
The bill also targets contract, part-time and on-call workers, including volunteer firefighters, contract workers and those on internships, and requires employers to schedule those workers a mini