LARRY, CURLEY & MOE - FOCUS ON LARRY

Back on January 9, 2012 I titled a posting as "Larry, Curley and Moe". I was referring to the Ontario Ministries of Labour, Transportation and Environment. My disrespect for these three in particular was primarily based upon my decades long experience with them. For greater in depth detail concerning MOE (Ministry of the Environment) one only has to visit the "Elmira Advocate". Google it or many other environmental issues and up it pops. Curley or the MOT has ticked me off for decades and this includes comments back on Jan. 9/12 as well as their recent behaviour concerning my father-in-law. Some bureaucratic, pompous, arrogant s.o.b lifted his driver's license on a the flimsiest of technicalities. An optometrist unskilled in the art of penmanship messed up a form, corrected it but too late it was in the hands of the MOT. Three years later and he just got his license back after jumping through hoops and loops in Kitchener, London and Toronto. Disgusting behaviour by a government that shoild be serving its' citizens not screwing them at every opportunity.

Larry is the Ministry of Labour. They found an employer at fault in Elmira, Ontario and ordered that they rehire an employee. This they did with obvious reluctance and then made the work environment untenable. The employee quit and went back to the Ministry of Labour who again investigated. This time they not only found against the employer for the second time but also uncovered improper behaviour by the employer regarding a second employee. Because it was a second offence completely contrary to the supposed good faith deal he had made in rehiring the first employee; the Ministry of labour threw the book at him. This time about a $10,000 fine was involved. To date by seizing one bank account approximately $1200 has been paid out of the $10,000 owed. Several years later and the employer has gone bust and his business sold under power of sale. No further monies have been forthcoming. Apparently Ministry of Labour financial orders are paper tigers. I kept asking why they wouldn't take him to court and instead they kept sending a collection company after him. Obviously government ministries orders for past wages etc. have very little legal weight. Rest assurred employers know this and aren't intimidated by them. Aren't non union employees fortunate to have the power of the Ministry of Labour behind them?