The Ontario Court of Appeal is scheduled to issue its ruling on the regional wage restriction law known as Bill 124 on Monday.

The 2019 law set a 1% annual salary increase for public sector workers for three years.

Labor groups and unions representing hundreds of thousands of public sector employees challenged the law, and the Ontario Superior Court found in late 2022 that it violated collective bargaining rights and struck it down as unconstitutional.

The government appealed the ruling and the case was heard in June, with the Court of Appeal saying its decision will be issued on Monday.

Since the law was struck down, even while awaiting the appeal, arbitrators have granted retroactive additional wages to several groups of workers with "re-opening" clauses in their contracts, including teachers, nurses, other hospital workers, public servants, air ambulance paramedics at ORNGE, and college faculty members.

Labor leaders and opposition critics have repeatedly called for the law to be repealed and for the government to stop pursuing the appeal.