Sentences with phrase «potential labour dispute»

The Canadian government is set to pass back to work legislation for certain categories of Air Canada employees to prevent any major disruption of air travel by a potential labour dispute following difficult and unsuccessful collective bargaining (see here).

Not exact matches

Faced with a potential strike by the airline's machinists union and a lockout of its pilots, federal Labour Minister Lisa Raitt referred both disputes to the CIRB on March 8, then introduced back - to - work legislation four days later.

Once (or should I say if) this pension / labour dispute is put to rest, I'd actually expect a rapid & substantial improvement in shareholder value — this might be a substantial return of capital or a tender offer (to distribute surplus cash), and / or a potential new partnership or even a takeover offer..?!

Epstein, and other panelists who work in the labour and commercial fields, said the challenge is to balance the parties» expectations that the mediator will give them a full and frank assessment of the dispute, including the merits of their positions and the potential outcome if they do not settle, against the risk that comments on the merits of the case will be seen as pre-judging it.

A judge who had been a labour lawyer once remarked in my presence (so this is the only citation you get)-- in exactly this context of the potential threat to lawyers» practices from ADR in civil litigation — that the practice of labour law showed how lawyers could make a good living resolving a lot of disputes quickly, rather than through the traditional civil litigation model of mining a few cases deeply over a long period.