Bill 27 in Canada Something is fishy but I don’t know what.

Random episode notes... un edited as usual Bill 27, Working for Workers Act, 2021 Disconnecting from work: Requiring employers with 25 or more employees to have a written policy about employees disconnecting from their job at the end of each workday. The term “disconnecting from work” is proposed to mean not engaging in work-related communications, including emails, telephone calls, video calls or the sending or reviewing of other messages, so as to be free from the performance of work.[5] No more non-compete agreements: Banning the use of non-compete agreements, with one significant exception.  In the context of a sale of business or part of a business, where the seller becomes an employee of the purchaser, they would be permitted to enter into an agreement that prohibits the seller from engaging in any business, work, occupation, profession, project or other activity that is in competition with the purchaser’s business after the sale.[6] Removing Canadian experience requirements: Removing barriers, such as Canadian experience requirements, for internationally trained individuals to get licenced in certain regulated professions and get access to jobs that match their qualifications and skills, through amendments to the Fair Access to Regulated Professions and Compulsory Trades Act, 2006.[7] However, regulated professions would still be required to ensure they comply with any regulations respecting English or French language proficiency testing requirements. Licensing recruiting and temporary help agencies: Requiring recruiters and temporary help agencies to have a licence to operate in the province. Licenses would be issued by the Director of Employment Standards, and would be for a term of one-year at a time. Bill 27 proposes a regime for license suspension, revocation, and review for any suspension or revocation, including by way of proceeding before the Ontario Labour Relations Board. Requiring washroom availability for delivery workers: Requiring business owners to allow delivery workers to use a company’s washroom if they are delivering or picking up items by way of amendment to the Occupational Health and Safety Act.[8] Proposed exceptions to the rule are: if providing access would not be reasonable or practical for reasons relating to the health or safety of any person at the workplace, including the worker who requests to use a washroom; if providing access would not be reasonable or practical having regard to all the circumstances, including, but not limited to, the nature of the workplace, the type of work at the workplace, the conditions of work at the workplace, the security of any person at the workplace and the location of the washroom within the workplace; or if the washroom is in or can only be accessed through a dwelling.[9]