First, Canadian employers are subject to provincial or
federal labour and employment laws, which set out minimum standards for virtually all employment relationships.
Not exact matches
Admittedly, 3,000 jobs is peanuts in the U.S.
labour market, but, as the chart below shows, the
federal layoffs mean that Washington is starting to be a drag on
employment growth just as state
and local governments are beginning to recover (blue is the
federal government; green is state government; red means local government;
and private sector
employment, excluding farm employees, is orange).
(b.) Composition of the
Federal Government representation is as follows: Minister of
Labour and Employment (Chairman), Minister of State for Petroleum Resources (member), Minister of Budget
and Planning (member), Minister of Finance (member), Minister of Solid Minerals (member)
and Chairman National Salaries, Income
and Wages Commission (member).
The
Federal High Court Sitting in Lagos has granted an order of interim forfeiture of the sum of N437, 348,181 allegedly linked to a current Permanent Secretary of the
Federal Ministry of
Labour and Employment, Mr. Clement Illoh Onubuogu.
The event had in attendance the Acting President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo (SAN); Minister of FCT, Alhaji Mohammed Bello; Minister of State for National Planning, Hajia Zainab Ahmed; Head of the
Federal Civil Service, Mrs Winifred Oyo - Ita
and the Host, Dr Chris Ngige, Minister of
Labour and Employment.
The statement read: «The attention of the
Federal Minister of
Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Nwabueze Ngige has been drawn to several media publications
and statements signed by Mr. Didi Adodo on behalf of the association, the United
Labour Congress, ULC, as its Secretary General.
Nigeria's Minister of
Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, has denied report where he was quoted as saying that the
Federal Government had committed N1 billion for the burial ceremony of the late Vice President, Dr. Alex Ekwueme.
The Minister of
Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, had in an interview with State House correspondents at the end of Wednesday's
Federal Executive Council meeting given an indication that Osinbajo had taken over the negotiation.
He acts in all areas of
labour,
employment,
and human rights law in both provincial
and federal jurisdictions, regularly helping clients respond to wrongful
and constructive dismissal claims, human rights complaints,
and statutory entitlement claims.
Boniferro, a partner in the firm's national
labour and employment group, is taking on management of what he says could be considered the «second largest law firm in the country» (second to the
federal government's Department of Justice).
While employers in federally - regulated industries are not subject to these changes, the
federal government is undertaking significant
labour and employment law reform that employers should be aware of
and will be affected by.
CACE promotes excellence in the specialized field of
labour and employment law,
and engages in legislation
and law reform activities at the provincial
and federal level.
With the new Saskatchewan
Employment Act, pending
federal labour law reforms, Alberta's Bill 4 amending who has the right to strike
and Ontario legislation under review, the
labour relations world appears to be filled with change —
and yet for practitioners many of these changes seem familiar.
Bill C - 65, An Act to amend the Canada
Labour Code (harassment
and violence), the Parliamentary
Employment and Staff Relations Act
and the Budget Implementation Act, 2017, No. 1, introduced on November 7, 2017, by the Minister of
Employment, Workforce Development
and Labour, Patty Hajdu, seeks to amend both the Canada
Labour Code
and the Parliamentary
Employment and Staff Relations Act to, according to the
federal government, replace the patchwork of laws
and policies that address violence
and harassment within the
federal jurisdiction, putting into place one comprehensive approach that takes the full spectrum of harassment
and violence into consideration.
Mathias Link's practice focuses on
federal and provincial sector employers in
employment,
labour and human rights matters.
This same tabling obligation would apply to orders, decisions
and directions of the
Federal Public Sector
Labour Relations
and Employment Board that were not complied within the allotted time.
Bill C - 65, An Act to amend the Canada
Labour Code (harassment
and violence), the Parliamentary
Employment and Staff Relations Act
and the Budget Implementation Act, 2017, No. 1, introduced on November 7, 2017, by the Minister of
Employment, Workforce Development
and Labour, Patty Hajdu, seeks to amend both the Canada
Labour Code
and the Parliamentary
Employment and Staff Relations Act to, according to the
federal government, replace the patchwork of laws
and policies that address violence
and harassment within the
federal jurisdiction, putting into place one comprehensive approach that takes the full spectrum of harassment
and violence into consideration... [more]
Last month, the Supreme Court of Canada granted leave to appeal a judgment of the
Federal Court of Appeal that overturned a determination of the Public Service
Labour Relations
and Employment Board (the «PSLREB») that not compensating employees for on - call hours violated section 7 of the Canadian Charter of Rights
and Freedoms (the «Charter»).
A
federal government study examining the
labour market circumstances for immigrants during the 2008 to 2011 period compared gaps between the
employment rate of immigrants
and persons born in Canada.
This new
federal system will set up a system to allow governments
and employers to select immigrants based on
employment and labour market needs.
As both the constitution
and the relevant jurisprudence make plain, there are some industries over which the
federal government has jurisdiction to pass laws concerning
labour and employment standards.
And in November 2017, the federal government tabled Bill C - 65, An Act to amend the Canada Labour Code (harassment and violence), the Parliamentary Employment and Staff Relations Act and the Budget Implementation Act, 20
And in November 2017, the
federal government tabled Bill C - 65, An Act to amend the Canada
Labour Code (harassment
and violence), the Parliamentary Employment and Staff Relations Act and the Budget Implementation Act, 20
and violence), the Parliamentary
Employment and Staff Relations Act and the Budget Implementation Act, 20
and Staff Relations Act
and the Budget Implementation Act, 20
and the Budget Implementation Act, 2017.
BLG's Defence
and Security Industry Group regularly advise defence industry clients with respect to government procurements
and bid disputes; export controls
and economic sanctions; access to information requests;
federal and provincial lobbying rules; joint ventures
and teaming agreements; intellectual property protection
and rights; as well as various other types of corporate, commercial, litigation
and labour and employment matters.
2) CCH Online (http://online.cch.ca/welcome.htm): Subscribers can set up individualized profiles which can then be customized to send a number of email alerts on a variety of topics within the topical coverage of the various CCH titles included in CCH Online (including, I believe, news alerts relating to commercial law, corporate law, estate administration,
federal and provincial tax,
employment and labour law, benefits
and pensions, real estate law
and securities law).
However,
labour and employment lawyers say this is not the last time the
federal government will be in court over this case.
These laws deal with sexual harassment but numerous others address
employment and labour relations in the
federal jurisdiction.
We provide a far reaching
and extensive range of
labour and employment services for clients of all sizes
and for both
federal and provincial employers.