On March 3, 2011, Bill 138, the Registered Human Resources Professionals Act, 2010, passed Second Reading and was ordered referred to the Standing Committee on General Government.

As previously reported, Bill 138 is a Private Member’s Bill that was introduced in the Ontario Legislature on November 23, 2010. If passed, it would create a more comprehensive legislative framework for the regulation of the human resources profession, and would provide the Human Resources Professionals Association (the “HRPA”) with broad powers of self-regulation.