Billions of dollars are at stake as a three-day hearing at Ontario's highest court gets underway Tuesday over the province's controversial wage-limiting law for public sector workers.
Last November, a judge with the Superior Court of Justice struck down Bill 124, Protecting a Sustainable Public Sector for Future Generations Act, ruling it unconstitutional.There are some 780,000 broader public sector workers in Ontario, including teachers, nurses and most employees of the province. Bill 124 became law in 2019, limiting their wages to a one per cent raise per year over a three-year period.
The province argues Koehnen erred by incorrectly applying the section of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms that allows for the freedom of association. That law governs the rights of groups, such as unions. The province says the judge misinterpreted the bill as interfering with workers' right to strike and points to strike actions taken after the law came into effect.
More than 10 groups representing hundreds of thousands of public sector employees are part of the appeal process.
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