Potential fines for coercive and illegal employment practices, violence at Toronto schools and the possible origins of the pandemic.
Good morning. This is the Monday, March 20 edition of First Up, the Star’s daily morning digest. Sign upHere’s the latest on potential fines for coercive and illegal employment practices, violence at Toronto schools and the possible origins of the pandemic.“Scumbag” Ontario employers will face hefty fines for withholding workers’ passports, the labour minister vows
Under proposed new labour laws, employers who withhold passports from vulnerable foreign workers could face fines of $100,000 to $200,000 — up from the current fines of just $250 to $1,000. And for those convicted of withholding documents from various workers, fines could accumulate into the millions, Sara Mojtehedzadeh reports.
The raccoon dog — and why missing Chinese samples have sparked frustration among those studying COVID’s origins Data on samples taken at the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan in 2020, where the COVID-19 pandemic may have originated, were made briefly available to international researchers this year. Why is it missing now? And why had it been withheld for three years? The director-general of the World Health Organization demanded answers from Chinese officials on Friday.
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