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IRE244 Midterm Questions and Answers
(Expert Solutions)
Q: What general minimum wage does the Ontario Employment Standard Act specify?,
🗹🗹: 40-50% of the average industrial wage
Q: What is the coverage of Ontario's minimum wage?, 🗹🗹: 5% of ON employees
3% of total hours worked
1.5% of total earnings
Q: conservative freeze, 🗹🗹: 1995-2002
Min wage not increased for 8 years
Harris gov't
Q: liberal annual increase, 🗹🗹: 2003-2007
$6.85 in 2003 - $8.00 in 2007
17% increase over 4 yrs determined yr by yr
McGuinty gov't
Q: liberal predetermined increases, 🗹🗹: 2007-2010
Anti-poverty groups campaigned that EE working full-time
year round would only earn $16,000/yr, below the "poverty line."
$8.00 - $10.25 by 2010
28% increase over 3 yrs
McGuinty gov't
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Q: liberal freeze, 🗹🗹: 2011-2013
Global financial crisis froze min wage at $10.25 for 3 yrs
McGuinty gov't
Q: liberal catch-up and keep-up, 🗹🗹: 2014-2017
2014: 7% increase to catch-up for inflation during 3 yr freeze ($10.25-$11.00)
2015-17: annual min wage increase tied to CPI (inflation)
Wynne gov't
Q: liberal changing workplaces review, 🗹🗹: 2017-2018
Planned increase to $15.00 over 3 yrs
$11.40-$11.60 2017 then $11.60-$14 2018 (21% increase)
Wynne gov't
Q: conservative freeze #2, 🗹🗹: Cancelled increase to $15.00 in 2019
Plan to freeze wage at $14.00 until October 2020 (nearly 3 yrs)
Ford gov't
Q: deindustrialization, 🗹🗹: *increased demand for part-time work
shift away from manufacturing economy
70% of jobs are now in the service sector
Q: women in the workforce stats, 🗹🗹: share of women in the labour force increased
from 34% in 1970 60 48% in 2018
male lfpr (2018): 70%
female lfpr (2018): 61%
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Q: women in the workforce implications, 🗹🗹: *-increased supply of part-time work
-growing importance of pay/employment equity
-sexual harassment/systemic discrimination
-daycare, job sharing, maternity leave, pensions
Q: part-time work, 🗹🗹: less than 30 hours per week @ MAIN job (formerly defined
as all jobs)
4% in 1950s - 20% in 2013
Low compensation (threat to full-timers)
Difficult to organize (unionize)
Q: Bill 148 (Fair Workplaces, Better Jobs Act), 🗹🗹: 2017 liberals
requires part-time and temp agency employees to be compensated the same as full-time
employees for the same work
Q: Bill 47 (making Ontario Open for Business Act), 🗹🗹: 2018 conservatives
repealed equal pay for part-time workers as of jan 2019
Q: non-standard work, 🗹🗹: includes part-time and contingent work
1/3 of labour force
Q: contingent work, 🗹🗹: casual, term-contract, temp, and seasonal jobs
this work provides flexibility to fluctuations in demand
IRE244 Midterm Questions and Answers
(Expert Solutions)
Q: What general minimum wage does the Ontario Employment Standard Act specify?,
🗹🗹: 40-50% of the average industrial wage
Q: What is the coverage of Ontario's minimum wage?, 🗹🗹: 5% of ON employees
3% of total hours worked
1.5% of total earnings
Q: conservative freeze, 🗹🗹: 1995-2002
Min wage not increased for 8 years
Harris gov't
Q: liberal annual increase, 🗹🗹: 2003-2007
$6.85 in 2003 - $8.00 in 2007
17% increase over 4 yrs determined yr by yr
McGuinty gov't
Q: liberal predetermined increases, 🗹🗹: 2007-2010
Anti-poverty groups campaigned that EE working full-time
year round would only earn $16,000/yr, below the "poverty line."
$8.00 - $10.25 by 2010
28% increase over 3 yrs
McGuinty gov't
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Q: liberal freeze, 🗹🗹: 2011-2013
Global financial crisis froze min wage at $10.25 for 3 yrs
McGuinty gov't
Q: liberal catch-up and keep-up, 🗹🗹: 2014-2017
2014: 7% increase to catch-up for inflation during 3 yr freeze ($10.25-$11.00)
2015-17: annual min wage increase tied to CPI (inflation)
Wynne gov't
Q: liberal changing workplaces review, 🗹🗹: 2017-2018
Planned increase to $15.00 over 3 yrs
$11.40-$11.60 2017 then $11.60-$14 2018 (21% increase)
Wynne gov't
Q: conservative freeze #2, 🗹🗹: Cancelled increase to $15.00 in 2019
Plan to freeze wage at $14.00 until October 2020 (nearly 3 yrs)
Ford gov't
Q: deindustrialization, 🗹🗹: *increased demand for part-time work
shift away from manufacturing economy
70% of jobs are now in the service sector
Q: women in the workforce stats, 🗹🗹: share of women in the labour force increased
from 34% in 1970 60 48% in 2018
male lfpr (2018): 70%
female lfpr (2018): 61%
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Q: women in the workforce implications, 🗹🗹: *-increased supply of part-time work
-growing importance of pay/employment equity
-sexual harassment/systemic discrimination
-daycare, job sharing, maternity leave, pensions
Q: part-time work, 🗹🗹: less than 30 hours per week @ MAIN job (formerly defined
as all jobs)
4% in 1950s - 20% in 2013
Low compensation (threat to full-timers)
Difficult to organize (unionize)
Q: Bill 148 (Fair Workplaces, Better Jobs Act), 🗹🗹: 2017 liberals
requires part-time and temp agency employees to be compensated the same as full-time
employees for the same work
Q: Bill 47 (making Ontario Open for Business Act), 🗹🗹: 2018 conservatives
repealed equal pay for part-time workers as of jan 2019
Q: non-standard work, 🗹🗹: includes part-time and contingent work
1/3 of labour force
Q: contingent work, 🗹🗹: casual, term-contract, temp, and seasonal jobs
this work provides flexibility to fluctuations in demand
