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Government of Ontario News - Employers

1. City of Toronto Fined $60,000 After Asbestos Violation

   Toronto, ON - The City of Toronto was fined $60,000 yesterday for a violation of the Occupational Health and Safety Act after an asbestos violation.

2. Helping to Protect New and Young Workers

   Ontario is launching a four-month blitz to ensure students are safe and don't get injured while working on their summer jobs.

3. Elizabeth Witmer Nominated as Chair of WSIB

   Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty has nominated Elizabeth Witmer as Chair of the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB).  

4. Welded Tube of Canada Limited Fined $120,000 After Worker Injured

   Newmarket, ON - Welded Tube of Canada Limited, a Concord steel manufacturer, was fined $120,000 for a violation of the Occupational Health and Safety Act after a worker was injured.

5. Woodstock Auto Recyclers Ltd. Fined $60,000 After Workers Injured

   Woodstock, ON - Woodstock Auto Recyclers Ltd., a Woodstock automobile wrecking yard, was fined $60,000 for violations of the Occupational Health and Safety Act after three workers were injured.

6. Strong Action To Reduce Deficit Further

   The Ontario government has updated its fiscal plan, showing further reductions to the Province's deficit. If passed, all revenue from the tax on Ontario's highest income earners would be used to eliminate the deficit even faster.

7. Honouring Front Line Providers Of Victim Services

   Ontario honoured those whose work helps victims of crime rebuild their lives in a ceremony at Queen's Park today.
   

8. Accelerating Ontario's Balanced Budget Plan

   The Ontario government has reached an agreement that would make the Budget even better, accelerate the plan to reduce the deficit and contains no net new spending.

9. Statement By Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty On 2012 Budget
   Today Premier Dalton McGuinty released the following statement:
   
   
10. Westario Power Inc. Fined $110,000 After Worker Killed

    Walkerton, ON - Westario Power Inc., a Walkerton power distribution company, was fined $110,000 for a violation of the Occupational Health and Safety Act after a worker was killed.

11. Expanding Ontario's Clean Energy Economy

    Ontario launched its Clean Energy Economic Development Strategy, which will create even more new jobs in the clean energy sector. The new strategy will leverage the province's clean energy experience to become a global leader in key areas of the energy sector. Our priority areas include:

12. Ontario Economy Growing, Creating Jobs

    The McGuinty government's job creation and economic growth plan is working. Ontario added 46,100 jobs in March. On a net basis, all of these jobs were full-time. The unemployment rate fell to 7.4 per cent, the lowest level in over three years.

13. Statement From Attorney General On Ontario's Tobacco Litigation

    Ontario has achieved another milestone in its efforts to recover past and ongoing health-care costs borne by Ontario taxpayers due to tobacco-related illness.

14. Res 2000 Structures Inc. Fined $160,000 After Worker Killed

    Toronto, ON - Res 2000 Structures Inc., a Cookstown constructor, was fined $160,000 for a violation of the Occupational Health and Safety Act after a worker was killed.

15. Triple M Metal Corp. Fined $75,000 After Worker Injured

    Hamilton, ON - Triple M Metal Corp., a Brampton company that recycles metal, was fined $75,000 for a violation of the Occupational Health and Safety Act after a worker was injured.