For the purpose of clarification, FETCO represents mostly private sector employers. Certain companies that are crown corporations also participate in FETCO. So we represent private sector employers.
We think that establishing these criteria in this bill will be helpful to interns and will require that employers follow certain procedures to ensure that they are hired to participate as interns, which does not place them in an employment relationship, in a manner that is going to benefit them. So we think that the criteria that have been established are going to require that employers make sure they apply appropriate criteria for the engagement of interns in their organizations.