Sentences with phrase «employees under the collective agreement»

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Although none of our employees are currently covered under collective bargaining agreements, our employees may elect to be represented by labor unions in the future.

Examples of these risks, uncertainties and other factors include, but are not limited to the impact of: adverse general economic and related factors, such as fluctuating or increasing levels of unemployment, underemployment and the volatility of fuel prices, declines in the securities and real estate markets, and perceptions of these conditions that decrease the level of disposable income of consumers or consumer confidence; adverse events impacting the security of travel, such as terrorist acts, armed conflict and threats thereof, acts of piracy, and other international events; the risks and increased costs associated with operating internationally; our expansion into and investments in new markets; breaches in data security or other disturbances to our information technology and other networks; the spread of epidemics and viral outbreaks; adverse incidents involving cruise ships; changes in fuel prices and / or other cruise operating costs; any impairment of our tradenames or goodwill; our hedging strategies; our inability to obtain adequate insurance coverage; our substantial indebtedness, including the ability to raise additional capital to fund our operations, and to generate the necessary amount of cash to service our existing debt; restrictions in the agreements governing our indebtedness that limit our flexibility in operating our business; the significant portion of our assets pledged as collateral under our existing debt agreements and the ability of our creditors to accelerate the repayment of our indebtedness; volatility and disruptions in the global credit and financial markets, which may adversely affect our ability to borrow and could increase our counterparty credit risks, including those under our credit facilities, derivatives, contingent obligations, insurance contracts and new ship progress payment guarantees; fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; overcapacity in key markets or globally; our inability to recruit or retain qualified personnel or the loss of key personnel; future changes relating to how external distribution channels sell and market our cruises; our reliance on third parties to provide hotel management services to certain ships and certain other services; delays in our shipbuilding program and ship repairs, maintenance and refurbishments; future increases in the price of, or major changes or reduction in, commercial airline services; seasonal variations in passenger fare rates and occupancy levels at different times of the year; our ability to keep pace with developments in technology; amendments to our collective bargaining agreements for crew members and other employee relation issues; the continued availability of attractive port destinations; pending or threatened litigation, investigations and enforcement actions; changes involving the tax and environmental regulatory regimes in which we operate; and other factors set forth under «Risk Factors» in our most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10 - K and subsequent filings by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

CSEA has filed a formal contract grievance with the Governor's Office of Employee Relations under the provisions of the CSEA - NYS collective bargaining agreement.

The second savings category contains so - called «unrepresented workers,» like retirees who would pay higher health insurance costs under the agreements reached with CSEA and PEF, plus the 9,000 or so «management / confidential» state employees who can't take part in collective bargaining.

The root of this difficulty is that both sides in public - employee negotiations find it in their interest to reduce the wage portion of the overall collective bargaining agreement — which, in the case of the Chicago public school teachers, is quite high at over $ 75,000 per year — in favor of larger pension benefits under a «defined benefits» plan.

A once - secret report prepared by the Pennsylvania State Education Association (PSEA) lays out a strategy that would organize all charter employees under the NEA affiliate's collective bargaining agreement, thereby depriving charter operators of a key element of their autonomy.

118.42 (5) Nothing in this section alters or otherwise affects the rights or remedies afforded school districts and school district employees under federal or state law or under the terms of any applicable collective bargaining agreement.

The workers union is trying to convince Amazon to accept collective bargaining agreements for staff under the mail order and retail industry sector as benchmarks for warehouse workers» pay at Amazon German distribution centers, but Amazon says the employees are making enough money and that they pay them the same as other distribution centers.

(3) Where an employer on behalf of whose employees a trade union or council of trade unions, as the case may be, has been certified as bargaining agent or has given or is entitled to give notice under section 16 or 59, sells his, her or its business, the trade union, or council of trade unions continues, until the Board otherwise declares, to be the bargaining agent for the employees of the person to whom the business was sold in the like bargaining unit in that business, and the trade union or council of trade unions is entitled to give to the person to whom the business was sold a written notice of its desire to bargain with a view to making a collective agreement or the renewal, with or without modifications, of the agreement then in operation and such notice has the same effect as a notice under section 16 or 59, as the case requires.

(30) An application for certification by another trade union as bargaining agent for employees in the bargaining unit filed with the Board after the Board has given a direction under clause (2)(c) is of no effect unless it is brought after the first collective agreement is settled and unless it is brought in accordance with subsections 7 (4), (5) and (6).

62 (1) If the trade union that applies for certification under subsection 7 (4), (5) or (6) is certified as bargaining agent for any of the employees in the bargaining unit defined in the collective agreement, the trade union that was or is a party to the agreement, as the case may be, forthwith ceases to represent the employees in the bargaining unit determined in the certificate and the agreement ceases to operate in so far as it affects such employees.

(2) Where notice has been given under section 59 and the Minister has appointed a conciliation officer or a mediator, no application for certification of a bargaining agent of any of the employees in the bargaining units as defined in the collective agreement and no application for a declaration that the trade union that was a party to the collective agreement no longer represents the employees in the bargaining unit as defined in the agreement shall be made after the date when the agreement ceased to operate or the date when the Minister appointed a conciliation officer or a mediator, whichever is later, unless following the appointment of a conciliation officer or a mediator, if no collective agreement has been made,

Defeated union's challenge to company's right to limit the bidding rights of bargaining unit employees to certain shifts under the parties» collective bargaining agreement.

(2) Where no collective agreement is in operation, no employee shall strike and no employer shall lock out an employee until the Minister has appointed a conciliation officer or a mediator under this Act and,

(4) Upon the Board making a declaration under subsection (1), the trade union forthwith ceases to represent the employees in the defined bargaining unit in the recognition agreement or collective agreement and any collective agreement in operation between the trade union and the employer ceases to operate forthwith in respect of the employees affected by the application.

(7) Where a trade union or council of trade unions is declared to be the bargaining agent under subsection (6) and it is not already bound by a collective agreement with the successor employer with respect to the employees for whom it is declared to be the bargaining agent, it is entitled to give to the employer a written notice of its desire to bargain with a view to making a collective agreement, and the notice has the same effect as a notice under section 16.

Unionized employees can be dismissed, but only for serious misconduct, such as theft or dishonesty, which is characterized as «just cause» under their collective agreements.

In the Supreme Court of Canada decision in Cooper v. Miller, 1994 1 SCR 359, the issue again was whether wage loss payments under an insurance program offered as an employment benefit to unionized employees pursuant to a collective agreement could be deducted off a past wage loss award.

Unionized employees don't necessarily have the option of suing their employer, but they can grieve an incident of sexual harassment under the relevant collective agreement whether or not it includes a specific term (s).

However, if an agreement is subject to statutory regulations which are modified or repealed then employees» rights under the collective agreement may be adversely affected.

In McGill, supra note 129, the Supreme Court of Canada stated at para. 20, «[s] ince the right to equality is a fundamental right, the parties to a collective agreement can not agree to a level of protection that is lower than the one to which employees are entitled under human rights legislation...»

[247] Some labour arbitrators in Ontario have considered a breach of a collective agreement as a factor in assessing undue hardship: see, for example, Chatham - Kent Children's Services v. Ontario Public Service Employees» Union, Local 148 (Bowen Grievance), [2014] O.L.A.A. No. 424 (note, however, that the arbitrator in this case relied on Renaud, supra note 208, a case that arose under British Columbia's Human Rights Act, S.B.C. 1984, which did not enumerate specific factors for assessing undue hardship, as the Ontario Human Rights Code does).

However, the collective agreement cites obligations under the Ontario Human Rights Code and accounts for situations where accommodating employees with disabilities may override other provisions of the collective agreement.

Those females who work for employers with less than fifty employees should be aware that if they are not afforded additional benefits beyond the eight week period either under a collective bargaining agreement or written employment policy or contract are not afforded job protection if their maternity leave exceeds eight weeks.

The agreements do not appear to be the result of bargaining between the farms and the workers or their associations, and the ability to engage in collective bargaining under the Agricultural Employees Protection Act is limited by the holding in Fraser.

Under that provision, employers are not allowed to change their employees» conditions of employment without the written consent of the certified union while a collective agreement is being negotiated.

131 (1) The directors of a corporation are jointly and severally liable to the employees of the corporation for all debts not exceeding six months» wages that become payable while they are directors for services performed for the corporation and for the vacation pay accrued while they are directors for not more than twelve months under the Employment Standards Act, and the regulations thereunder, or under any collective agreement made by the corporation.