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Matthew Rae

  • MPP
  • Member of Provincial Parliament
  • Perth—Wellington
  • Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario
  • Ontario
  • Unit 2 55 Lorne Ave. E Stratford, ON N5A 6S4
  • tel: 519-272-0660
  • fax: 519-272-106
  • Matthew.Rae@pc.ola.org

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  • Mar/22/23 2:20:00 p.m.
  • Re: Bill 79 

I appreciate my colleague for her speech. I’m new in this House, but I am always impressed by my colleagues filling an hour, and I appreciated her remarks.

My question: Lots of my colleagues of the younger generation are used to working from home now, or remotely, and some of us haven’t even gone into the offices we may work at. In this piece of legislation, as the minister announced earlier—last week I believe—workers working from home—remotely—obviously deserve the same protections as an employee in an office. So when a company announces a mass termination, remote workers obviously deserve the same rights as those on site. Can the member explain whether they support this proposal to include remote workers in mass terminations and ensure they have the same rights as those who are on site on a work site?

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