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Ontario teachers awarded additional pay to compensate for Bill 124

In 2019, Bill 124 capped salary increases for Ontario public sector employees at one per cent over 3 years. It's since been ruled unconstitutional, and Ontario teachers are getting a 2.75 per cent retroactive pay bump for one year of their last contract.

Public high school and elementary school teachers will get 1-year 2.75% pay bump retroactively

Vice Principal Vanessa McFarquhar leads a tour of Blessed Sacrament Catholic School on Sept. 4, 2020.
Ontario public high school and elementary teachers have been awarded retroactive compensation for lost wages under Bill 124, which capped salary increases. (Evan Mitsui/CBC)

Public high school teachers and elementary teachers will get additional retroactive salary increases to compensate them for constrained wages under a law known as Bill 124.

When the Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario and Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Federation reached new contract deals with the provincial government, they left some issues to be decided by an arbitrator.

The teachers and government agreed to an additional 0.75 per cent in each of the first two years of their previous contract in order to compensate for lost wages under Bill 124, but the amount for the third year was left to arbitration.

The unions announced today that the arbitrator has awarded an additional 2.75 per cent for the third year, amounts that are on top of the one per cent raises each year that were part of the previous contract under Bill 124.

That law capped salary increases for public sector workers to one per cent a year for three years.

An Ontario court has declared it unconstitutional, ruling that it infringes on the workers' rights to freedom of association and collective bargaining.

The government appealed and the Appeal Court is set to issue a ruling on Monday.