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Bill 191, Childcare and Early Years Workforce Strategy Advisory Committee Act, 2024

Armstrong, Teresa J.

Bell, Jessica

Karpoche, Bhutila

Pasma, Chandra

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EXPLANATORY

NOTE

The

Bill enacts the Childcare and Early Years Workforce

Strategy Advisory Committee Act, 2024 , which establishes the Early Years

Workforce Strategy Advisory Committee. The function of the Committee is to develop

recommendations on how to support registered early childcare educators and the

childcare and early years workforce with respect to certain matters. The

Committee is required to provide its recommendations in an annual report to the

Minister of Education, the Minister of Labour, Immigration, Training and Skills

Development and the Minister of Colleges and Universities. The Minister of

Education is required to meet with the Committee at certain times and to

prepare a status report setting out any actions taken by the Government with

respect the recommendations of the Committee.

Bill 191 2024

Act respecting the establishment of a Childcare and Early Years Workforce

Strategy Advisory Committee

His

Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the

Province of Ontario, enacts as follows:

Childcare

and Early Years Workforce Strategy Advisory Committee

(1) The

Childcare and Early Years Workforce Strategy Advisory Committee is established.

Composition

(2) The

Committee shall be composed of members appointed by the Lieutenant Governor in

Council from the following groups:

1. Registered

early childcare educators and members of the childcare and early years

workforce.

2. Provincial

or regionally-based organizations and associations that represent registered

early childcare educators and the childcare and early years workforce.

3. Designates

from labour unions that represent registered early childcare educators and the

childcare and early years care workforce.

4. Early

years and childcare experts.

5. Black

communities, Indigenous communities and the communities of other people of

colour.

6. Northern

and rural communities.

7. Francophone

communities.

Functions

(3) The

Committee shall develop recommendations on how to support registered early childcare

educators and the childcare and early years workforce and address staffing

shortages, including recommendations respecting each of the following matters:

1. Increasing

wages and adapting salary scales to increase compensation based on skill and

experience level.

2. Minimum

work standards, including minimum benefits, paid sick leave and paid time for

planning and professional development.

3. Strategies

to enable registered early childcare educators and members of the childcare and

early years workforce to advance their qualifications.

4. Recruitment,

including recruitment to Northern and rural areas and francophone communities.

5. Strategies

with respect to immigration.

6. Strategies

to improve collective bargaining.

7. Strategies

to implement the Canada-Wide Early Learning and Child Care system, considering

the particularity of Ontario’s child care systems.

Report

(4) The

Committee shall prepare an annual report setting out its recommendations with

respect to the matters referred to in subsection (3).

Same

(5) The

annual report shall be published on a website of the Government of Ontario and

shall be sent to,

(

a) the

Minister of Education;

(

b) the

Minister of Labour, Immigration, Training and Skills Development; and

(

c) the

Minister of Colleges and Universities.

Consultation

(6) After

the Committee prepares the first annual report, the Minister of Education shall

meet with the Committee twice annually to discuss the Committee’s annual reports.

Status

of recommendations

(7) Within

six months of receiving an annual report, the Minister of Education shall

create a status report setting out any actions taken by the Government with

respect the recommendations of the Committee and shall ensure that the status

report is published on a website of the Government of Ontario.

Commencement

This Act comes into force on the day it receives Royal Assent.

Short

title

The

short title of this Act is the Childcare and Early

Years Workforce Strategy Advisory Committee Act, 2024 .

Date Bill stage Event Outcome Committee

May 29, 2024

Second Reading

Vote

Lost on division

May 28, 2024

Second Reading

Question put

Vote deferred

May 28, 2024

Second Reading

Debated

May 6, 2024

First Reading

Ordered for Second Reading

May 6, 2024

First Reading

Vote

Carried

First Reading

May 6, 2024

Carried

Ordered for Second Reading

Second Reading

May 28, 2024

Armstrong, Teresa

London—Fanshawe

Fraser, John

Ottawa South

Gélinas, France

Nickel Belt

Karpoche, Bhutila

Parkdale—High Park

Pang, Billy

Markham—Unionville

Pasma, Chandra

Ottawa West—Nepean

Pierre, Natalie

Burlington

Shaw, Sandy

Hamilton West—Ancaster—Dundas

Wong-Tam, Kristyn

Toronto Centre

Question put

May 29, 2024

Lost on division

Vote on second reading - Lost (May 29, 2024)

Ayes

(37) Teresa J. Armstrong

Jessica Bell

Guy Bourgouin

Stephanie Bowman

Bobbi Ann Brady

Jeff Burch

Aislinn Clancy

Lucille Collard

Catherine Fife

John Fraser

Jennifer K. French

Wayne Gates

France Gélinas

Chris Glover

Lisa Gretzky

Joel Harden

Andrea Hazell

Ted Hsu

Bhutila Karpoche

Terence Kernaghan

Michael Mantha

Karen McCrimmon

Mary-Margaret McMahon

Chandra Pasma

Tom Rakocevic

Peggy Sattler

Mike Schreiner

Adil Shamji

Sandy Shaw

Jennifer (Jennie) Stevens

Marit Stiles

Peter Tabuns

Monique Taylor

John Vanthof

Lise Vaugeois

Jamie West

Kristyn Wong-Tam

Nays

(67) Deepak Anand

Aris Babikian

Robert Bailey

Patrice Barnes

Ric Bresee

Rick Byers

Hon. Paul Calandra

Hon. Raymond Sung Joon Cho

Hon. Stan Cho

Hon. Steve Clark

Hon. Stephen Crawford

Rudy Cuzzetto

Andrew Dowie

Hon. Doug Downey

Hon. Jill Dunlop

Hon. Victor Fedeli

Hon. Rob Flack

Hon. Doug Ford

Michael D. Ford

Dawn Gallagher Murphy

Goldie Ghamari

Hon. Zee Hamid

Hon. Ernie Hardeman

Hon. Mike Harris

Christine Hogarth

Hon. Kevin Holland

Hon. Sylvia Jones

Hon. Trevor Jones

Logan Kanapathi

Hon. Michael S. Kerzner

Hon. Andrea Khanjin

Hon. Natalia Kusendova-Bashta

Anthony Leardi

Hon. Stephen Lecce

Lisa MacLeod

Robin Martin

Hon. Todd J. McCarthy

Hon. Graham McGregor

Hon. Caroline Mulroney

Hon. Sam Oosterhoff

Hon. Michael Parsa

Hon. David Piccini

Natalie Pierre

Steve Pinsonneault

Hon. Nolan Quinn

Matthew Rae

Hon. Greg Rickford

Brian Riddell

Sheref Sabawy

Amarjot Sandhu

Hon. Prabmeet Singh Sarkaria

Stéphane Sarrazin

Brian Saunderson

Hon. Laurie Scott

Hon. Donna Skelly

Dave Smith

David Smith

Hon. Graydon Smith

Laura Smith

Todd Smith

Hon. Kinga Surma

Hon. Nina Tangri

Hon. Michael A. Tibollo

Effie J. Triantafilopoulos

Daisy Wai

Hon. Charmaine A. Williams

John Yakabuski

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