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Labour rights platforms

Here's what the 2025 Canadian election parties are promising.
We don't have any Liberal policies on Labour rights.

Conservative
  • Institute strict new minimum penalties for executives or board members of companies that exploit children and abuse workers for profit
  • Create a private right of action against goods made with forced and child labour
  • Require union LMIA pre-checks, so that unions get consulted before employers hire temporary foreign workers
  • Work with the provinces to harmonise health and safety rules across jurisdictions

    "Working with the provinces to harmonize health and safety rules across jurisdictions to protect workers everywhere." — Change, retrieved 2025-04-23

We don't have any Bloc policies on Labour rights.
We don't have any NDP policies on Labour rights.

Green
  • Implement a clear ABC Test to classify workers as employees and prevent gig economy exploitation

    "Implement a clear ABC Test to classify workers properly and prevent gig economy exploitation." — Change: Vote For It, retrieved 2025-04-25

  • Crack down on misclassification of employees as independent contractors

    "Crack down on sham contracting and unjust misclassification of employees as independent contractors." — Change: Vote For It, retrieved 2025-04-25

  • Increase federal labour inspectors and compliance funding to strengthen enforcement against employer violations

    "Increase federal labour inspectors and compliance funding to strengthen enforcement against employer violations, including worker misclassification, wage theft, and unfair labour practices." — Change: Vote For It, retrieved 2025-04-25

  • Establish a Federal Worker Rights Ombudsman to support employees experiencing workplace harassment, wage theft, and unfair treatment
  • Expand and enforce full successor rights for workers, to prevent contract flipping that reduces wages and benefits
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  • Require gig companies to guarantee minimum pay, mileage reimbursement, and employment protections

    "Require gig companies (Uber, DoorDash, Amazon, etc.) to guarantee minimum pay, mileage reimbursement, and employment protections." — Change: Vote For It, retrieved 2025-04-25

  • Establish a Portable Benefits Fund for gig workers, to provide pensions, health insurance, and paid leave

    "Establish a Portable Benefits Fund for gig workers, ensuring access to:

    » Pensions, health insurance, and paid leave regardless of employment classification.

    » This fund will be financed through a mandatory per-trip or per-hour employer levy, ensuring companies contribute their fair share."

    — Change: Vote For It, retrieved 2025-04-25

  • Fund a permanent Statics Canada study on gig work to ensure accurate data
  • Establish a Federal AI and Workplace Privacy Roundtable to oversee AI-driven workplace changes
  • Strengthen worker protections to prevent unfair job losses due to AI-based automation
  • Require mandatory AI impact assessments for federally-funded companies, ensuring job security and ethical AI use
  • Expand Labour Code protections against workplace monitoring and algorithmic exploitation, ensuring workers can challenge AI-driven employment decisions
  • Implement mandatory human rights and labour due diligence standards for all government contractors
  • Mandate workplace protections for extreme heat, wildfire smoke, and climate-related hazards, including hazard pay and EI emergency benefits for climate-related work stoppages

    "Mandate workplace protections for extreme heat, wildfire smoke, and climate-related hazards, including:

    » Additional hazard pay for workers exposed to climate hazards.

    » EI emergency benefits for climate-related work stoppages."

    — Change: Vote For It, retrieved 2025-04-25

  • Expand and improve parental leave, including dedicated leave for elder care and miscarriage recovery, with higher wage replacement

    "Expand and improve parental leave, including dedicated leave for elder care and miscarriage recovery, ensuring more flexibility and higher wage replacement." — Change: Vote For It, retrieved 2025-04-25

  • Implement an automation impact fee on large companies benefitting significantly from automation

    "Implement an automation impact fee on large companies benefiting significantly from automation, requiring contributions equivalent to displaced workers’ income taxes. Direct this revenue toward education, retraining, and displaced worker supports." — Change: Vote For It, retrieved 2025-04-25

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