Ontario government repeals wage restraint law known as Bill 124

The Ontario government officially repealed the provincial wage restraint law known as Bill 124 on Friday.

Ontario’s Court of Appeal found Bill 124 unconstitutional last week, prompting a promise from the Ford government to repeal the 2019 law.

It capped salary increases for public sector workers at one per cent a year for three years and faced heavy criticism.

Labour groups and unions representing hundreds of thousands of public sector employees had challenged the law.

“Repealing the bill will solve for the inequality of workers created by the recent court decision,” officials said in a news release Friday.

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