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The Link2Build group publishes news and information about the Ontario construction industry daily. Check here for the latest in trends, developments and insight from a wide variety of contributors, and visit regularly for updated information.
How businesses can best help employees disconnect from work
Right-to-disconnect legislation has limitations. It focuses on specific hours employees are free to disconnect and establishes a window during which they must be accessible.
RESCON pre-budget submission calls for supports to ease housing crisis and employ more foreign-trained construction workers
The submission calls for changes to the residential permitting system, as well as to skilled labour regulations to bring foreign-trained workers into non-compulsory trades.
Feds commit $37M to 150 affordable housing units in Hamilton, Niagara
An investment of $10.5 million will support the construction of 42 units in Welland, while a further $26.5 million will support the construction of 109 units in Hamilton.
CPL Interiors fined $761K for its role in GTA bid-rigging scheme
The company was one of four charged last spring, and pled guilty to the charges in Ontario Superior Court. Court proceedings are ongoing against the remaining accused.
Province launches Skilled Trades Ontario
The Ontario government has finally launched its replacement for the Ontario College of Trades. Skilled Trades Ontario aims to improve training and simplify services for workers across Ontario’s 144 trades.