As it now stands, the Employment Standards Act and Regulation are so replete with exceptions, exclusions and special rules that the majority of workers don’t have full protection of the Act.
David Fairey, Co-Chair of the BC Employment Standards Coalition, published an op-ed in The Vancouver Sun on 23 April. He underscores that because of a wide array of loopholes, only a minority of workers in BC receive full protections under the BC Employment Standards Act. Further, Fairey calls on Labour Minister Harry Bains, “to establish an independent commission for the review of all regulatory exclusions and variances.”
