Beginning in May 2015, the Ontario Ministry of Labour will begin
a province-wide employment standards workplace inspection blitz
targeting the janitorial, security, business services, fitness and
recreation centres, amusement, and recreation sectors. The Ministry
of Labour has labeled the blitz's focus as "precarious
employment", likely due to the high occurrence of part-time
and other atypical forms of employment in these sectors. This blitz
follows the release of the Ministry of Labour's results on its vulnerable and temporary
foreign workers employment standards blitz last fall. Those
inspections found 171 non-compliant employers, recovering over
$175,000 for 1,406 employees. As is typical, the most common
violations included non-compliance with the public holiday pay,
vacation pay, and overtime pay requirements of the ESA.
