The New Democrats have convinced the B.C. Liberal government to retain provisions to protect individual workers in the Woodworkers Lien Act.
The act was to be repealed as part of a new act to provide payment protection to logging contractors. The new law is meant to enable loggers to use liens, but also establishes the concept of an insurance fund, a payment source of last resort when the forest companies the loggers are contracted to go out of business.
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