On August 13, 2018, the Ontario government filed Regulation
406/18, and revoked Regulation 304/16, under the Broader Public
Sector Executive Compensation Act, 2014 (the BPSECA).
This latest change reverses two years of hard work to implement new
compensation programs, and institutes a strict compensation freeze
similar to prior legislation.
Background
Since 2010, Ontario's broader public sector was subject to a
freeze on executive compensation, which applied to directors of
education, supervisory officers, and other executives at school
boards. The restraint provisions in the Public Sector
Compensation Restraint to Protect Public Services Act, 2010
and then in the Broader Public Sector Accountability Act,
2010 operated to effectively prohibit increases to
compensation for school board executives except in limited
circumstances. The general approach was to refrain from providing
executives with salary increases, and to provide salaries to new
hires that were equal
