Well, you can't contravene what you don't have.
Reasonable people can disagree on what is good or bad.
Few can read the employment standards provisions in effect in this province and feel proud to be New Brunswickers. For those three-quarters of New Brunswickers who are not unionized or under the jurisdiction of the federal employment standards legislation, the provincial employment standards are the only protection they have. Our legislation is worse than in most jurisdictions, so we can't say that improving the law would make us less competitive. All other Canadian jurisdictions have minimum call-in pay provisions. Some workers in fast food outlets, restaurants and retail sales report that it happens regularly that there is no work or that they work shifts as short as 30 minutes after a call-in.