Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I won't be the Minister to introduce legislation for paid sick leave but as I stated when the Member asked these questions back in February and then before that in December, we are looking -- the department is looking into amendments to the Employment Standards Act. They've completed a cross-jurisdictional scan across Canada and discovered there's a number of areas where we need to improve our legislation to modernize it. As part of that work, we are going to go out and engage with employers, with employees, and ask these types of questions. You know, do you provide sick leave? Do you want to see something like this legislated? So that work is happening. We expect all of the engagement to be done by the end of this Assembly, leaving the door wide open for the next government to look at making those types of changes. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
R.J. Simpson on Question 1244-19(2): Paid Sick Leave
In the Legislative Assembly on October 27th, 2022. See this statement in context.
Question 1244-19(2): Paid Sick Leave
Oral Questions
October 27th, 2022
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