Human Resources committee  It was my pleasure. Thank you.

Human Resources committee  Yes, excuse me. That was clause 224—

Human Resources committee  —looking at proposed subsections 251.1(1.1), 251.1(1.2), and 251.1(2).

Human Resources committee  We're now moving to clause 225, which amends proposed section—

Human Resources committee  That is correct.

Human Resources committee  In that situation, there would in fact be a limit. Someone who has not realized for years and years that there was a problem would be limited to 12 months or 24 months for vacation pay, based on the mechanisms under the code. It should be noted that this rule applies to almost a

Human Resources committee  Again, as I mentioned, we are creating a new administrative review mechanism, and this is where we provide for it. An employee or employer who is affected by a payment order or a notice of unfounded complaint could request, within 15 days of being served the order of notice, to h

Human Resources committee  Under proposed section 251.11, we are currently modifying the existing provisions for appeals to referees. To go to a referee after an administrative review, the grounds for appeal must be specified in writing, and you can only go to a referee on issues of law or jurisdiction. Is

Human Resources committee  That's the only thing I have to say about this.

Human Resources committee  All right. We then provide, under proposed section 251.03 and the subsequent proposed section 251.04, the ability for inspectors to assist parties in reaching settlements. This is a provision similar to what we currently have under the unjust dismissal provisions—again, just cl

Human Resources committee  Proposed section 251.05 specifies under what circumstances a complaint can be rejected, so it provides a number of grounds. These are grounds that we find in other legislation elsewhere, so inasmuch as possible, we try to be consistent. If the complaint is not within the jurisdic

Human Resources committee  All right. The next provision, under clause 224, is where we actually specify the limitation for payment orders, the limitation of the period of time in the overview, as was mentioned, and this would be basically, for most wages, 12 months from the date of the complaint, or 12 mo

Human Resources committee  Yes.

Human Resources committee  We do not tabulate statistics by timeframe. However, we have checked with the inspectors to see whether that has occurred often or not. They told us that it is very uncommon for people to take more than six months to file a complaint. Again, I cannot give you a specific percentag

Human Resources committee  The objective of this measure is to get people to file their complaints as soon as possible. Actually, the longer they wait to file their complaints, the more difficult it is to process them, because evidence is no longer available or memories have faded. It becomes very difficul