As we
reported in August, the Ontario government issued a new
Compensation Framework Regulation, Regulation 406/18, that
continued to freeze the current levels of compensation for
executives at most designated employers within the broader public
sector (including public hospitals, universities and colleges and
school boards, among others). Under Regulation 406/18, the
President of the Treasury Board was required to review executive
compensation again before June 7, 2019.
With the introduction of Bill 100, Protecting What Matters
Most Act (Budget Measures), 2019 ("Bill 100") the
government has done just that by proposing several amendments to
the Broader Public Sector Executive Compensation Act, 2014
("BPSECA"). In an accompanying Budget document,
(PDF) the government acknowledged its earlier commitment to
review executive compensation in the Broader Public
Sector. After concluding that existing practices permitted
adjustments to be made to executive compensation