's Employment Standards Act, saying the current legislation is failing to protect workers including the province's burgeoning tech sector. The Employment Standards Act sets minimum standards for most workplaces, but a number of sectors have been granted exclusion from overtime regulations, including high tech, the service industry and construction. The new NDP government has also committed to establishing a fair wage commission to increase the minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2021 and modernizing workers rights in B.C. "Without proactive enforcement and adequate staff resources to provide effective enforcement, employment standards are, for all practical purposes, meaningless," said the report. 's Employment Standards Act (ESA) doesn't protect workers from psychological abuse or bullying, which was a complaint raised by nearly half of those surveyed.

Source: CBC News September 04, 2017 22:52 UTC