MLA for North Vancouver-Lonsdale (BC NDP) & Minister of State for Infrastructure. Engineer, millennial, business grad, believer in the climate emergency.
Apr 29, 2019 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
Do you work for tips? Legislation tabled by BC NDP govt will establish a legal framework around tips & tip-pooling practices to prevent employers from withholding them from workers. #bcpoli#betterlabourlaws4bc
Under current laws, if an employer illegally withholds wages from an employee, the employee can only go after them for max 6 months of wages. These Employment Standards Act changes will increase the recovery period to 12 months, and up to 24 months in some situations. #bcpoli
Apr 6, 2019 • 25 tweets • 12 min read
Let's do this more or less chronologically. Early on, we stopped a BC Liberal plan to sell off a hugely valuable piece of public property to private interests right by the #NorthVan waterfront.
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The Finance Minister and I worked together to help the @NVanDistrict receive clarity on this mess of a situation that the BC Liberals left behind for them, leaving many to question whether the BC Liberals had given a donor a sweetheart deal.
