Ontario’s Minister of Labour, Immigration, Training and Skills Development says the province is going to make changes to make the hiring process more fair.
“We know that the vast majority of employers across Ontario are doing right by their staff and customers and helping drive the economic prosperity of our province,” said David Piccini. “But with today’s announcement, we are sending a clear message to those bad actor employers out there that there are real consequences for bad behaviour. We are also supporting jobseekers by taking a balanced approach that gives them greater certainty in the hiring process without adding unnecessary or onerous requirements for employers.”
He says proposed new legislation would require larger employers to respond to job applicants they have interviewed for publicly advertised jobs.
They also plan to require employers to disclose if they have job vacancies or not.
The measure would guard against companies that create fictitious job openings in order to have a pool of potential employees at the ready if they ever do hire.
Piccini intends to table the legislation next week.
Written by: K. Freeman with files from the Canadian Press
