hordruma/ontario_laws_and_regs huggingface dataset:
Terms of Order
  3.1 Despite section 21 of O. Reg. 129/04, in 2020 the owner of a facility shall ensure that every operator employed in the facility is given at least 10 hours of training. 4.  The Agency or a municipality, as those terms are defined in section 1 of the OWRA, is authorized to continue, until the end of July 31, 2020, any measures that were taken under this Order on or before July 15, 2020 with respect to work deployment and staffing to respond to operational challenges posed by the outbreak of the coronavirus (COVID-19), but only if the measures are necessary to ensure a sewage works is being properly operated. 5.  Without limiting the generality of paragraph 4, and despite any other statute, regulation, order, policy, arrangement or agreement, including a collective agreement, the Agency or a municipality is authorized until the end of July 31, 2020 to continue to do the following: (a)  identify staffing priorities and develop, modify and implement redeployment plans, including the following: (i)  redeploying staff within different locations in or between sewage works; (ii)  changing the assignment of work, including assigning non-bargaining unit employees or contractors to perform bargaining unit work; (iii)  changing the scheduling of work or shift assignments; (iv)  deferring or cancelling vacations, absences and other leaves, regardless of whether such vacations, absences or leaves are established by statute, regulation, agreement or otherwise; (v)  employing extra part-time or temporary staff or contractors, including for the purposes of performing bargaining unit work; (vi)  using volunteers to perform work, including performing bargaining unit work; (vii)  providing appropriate training or education as needed to staff and volunteers to achieve the purposes of a redeployment plan, and, for greater certainty, the Agency or a municipality may implement redeployment plans without complying with provisions of a collective agreement, including lay-off, seniority/service or bumping provisions; (b)  conduct any skills and experience inventories of staff to identify possible alternative roles in priority areas; (c)  require and collect information from staff or contractors about their availability to provide services to the Agency or municipality; (d)  require the provision of and collect information from staff or contractors about their likely or actual exposure to the coronavirus (COVID-19), or about any other health conditions that may affect their ability to provide services; (e)  provide supports and services to staff and contractors to enable them to continue to carry out their duties to operate sewage works; and (f)  suspend, for the duration of this Order, any grievance process with respect to any matter referred to in this Order. O. Reg. 75/20; O. Reg. 410/20, s. 5.