Sentences with phrase «labour arbitration process»

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The legislature created the status of the parties in a process founded upon a solution to labour relations in a wholly new and statutory framework at the centre of which stands a new forum, the contract arbitration tribunal.

This amendment provides a process whereby the Labour Relations Board can assist with settling the terms of a first collective agreement and, if such assistance is unsuccessful, direct the matter to arbitration.

Employers with unionized employees are likely already familiar with the concept of arbitration, as this process of dispute resolution is generally mandatory under labour relations legislation.

He has turned an arbitration over his termination during the probationary period of his employment in 1999 into a legal battle that apparently continues today, including allegations of bias against members of the BC Labour Relations Board (which were noted as being without merit), a Statement of Claim against the BC Attorney General (and others) which was dismissed as an abuse of process, and the attempted swearing of two informations against a vice chair of the BC LRB (which the court found there was no evidence to support).

The union certification process would be simplified by, among other changes, the removal of certain conditions for remedial union certification in cases of employer misconduct, allowing greater access to first contract arbitration, empowering the Ontario Labour Relations Board (the «OLRB») to conduct votes outside of the workplace and allowing unions to access employee lists and certain employee contact information once the union has twenty percent (20 %) of employees» support.

Winkler, C.J. distills the problems facing labour arbitration to two interconnected factors: a growing lack of proportionality and over-formalization of the arbitration process.

On April 4, 2017, the New Democratic Party (NDP) of Ontario introduced private member legislation that would amend the Labour Relations Act, 1995 (Act) to bring «card check» union certification back to Ontario for the first time since 1995, and to implement a new first contract arbitration process.