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Originally Posted by Lubicon
Maybe not rural communities (ie small towns) but the rural community (farms etc) were not happy with some of the changes to labor laws/workers comp changes IIRC.
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Right, farm workers were previously exempt from the Employment Standards Code and thus OHS regs, WCB coverage, and were barred from forming unions. I want someone to explain to me how giving farm workers the same rights as any other worker was "harmful to rural communities". I know there was a hullaballoo with farmers panicking that they'd have to pay workers comp premiums for their kids and neighbours pitching in at harvest time, and that's not at all what the NDP's changes imposed.