IWC’s response to the consultation on the Ontario’s proposed Critical Minerals Strategy addresses the high workplace injury rate of workers in the mining and quarrying industries and their need to have the same health and safety protections as all workers in Ontario. It calls on the government to state by regulation that there will be no exemptions for workers in special economic zones from the Occupational Health and Safety Act, the Workplace Safety and Insurance Act, the Labour Relations Act and the Employment Standards Act ….
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