[1] In this appeal, we must decide whether excluding members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police («RCMP») from collective bargaining under the Public Service Labour Relations Act, enacted by the Public Service Modernization Act, S.C. 2003, c. 22, s. 2 («PSLRA»), and imposing a non-unionized
labour relations regime violates the guarantee of freedom of association in s. 2 (d) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
Instead, there exists a non-unionized
labour relations regime with three core components.
The reasons of the majority raise the issue of how s. 3 (2) of the Act should be applied in the contemporary context of
the labour relations regime.
3) There is the question of how courts should interpret and apply the Rights of Labour Act in the contemporary context of
the labour relations regime.
The s. 2 (d) guarantee of freedom of association protects a meaningful process of collective bargaining that provides employees with a degree of choice and independence sufficient to enable them to determine and pursue their collective interests; the current RCMP
labour relations regime denies that choice, and imposes a scheme that does not permit them to identify and advance their workplace concerns free from management's influence.
The federal government has moved one step closer to making good on its promise earlier this year to restore the pre-2013 public service
labour relations regime.
See here for our first article on employment standards changes and here for our second article on changes to
the labour relations regime.
The amendments to the Code represent significant changes to
the labour relations regime in Alberta.
Omnibus Bill C - 4, which just received Royal Assent, guts a 50 - year - old
labour relations regime.
Not exact matches
The industrial
relations regime could be dramatically redrawn this year with a potential relaxation of independent contractor laws that would further erode union control over the
labour market.
-- A discrete and special administrative
regime in which the decision maker has special expertise (
labour relations for instance).
In the first case, Mounted Police Association of Ontario v. Canada, a 6 - 1 majority struck down provisions that excluded RCMP officers from the Public Service
Labour Relations Act, which in effect imposed a management - controlled labour - relations regime on RCMP off
Labour Relations Act, which in effect imposed a management - controlled labour - relations regime on RCMP
Relations Act, which in effect imposed a management - controlled
labour - relations regime on RCMP off
labour -
relations regime on RCMP
relations regime on RCMP officers.
Under this new
regime the role of the [Ontario
Labour Relations] Board has been eliminated.