A court has struck down Premier Doug Ford’s controversial Bill 124, which limited most public sector workers in Ontario to annual pay increases of one per cent and has been blamed for an exodus of health-care workers in the pandemic.
A ruling from the Ontario Superior Court of Justice on Tuesday found the wage restraint legislation — passed as an austerity measure to put the province on the path to a balanced budget before the emergence of COVID-19 — violated Charter rights to collective bargaining.