The 2009 Annotated Canada Labour Code

Description:

• A current consolidation of the Canada Labour Code, the Canada Industrial Relations Board Regulations, 2001, plus 11 other ancillary enactments
• Thousands of case law digests, covering both reported and unreported decisions of the Board and the courts, fully annotating the Code and the Board Regulations, including many new cases considering the substantive amendments made to Parts I and II of the Code
• Exhaustive cross-referencing to related provisions.

• newly revised standards of judicial review of Board and adjudication decisions;
• Part I considers the Board's ability to look beyond the Code to address questions of law and its ability to invalidate legislation based on Charter scrutiny;
• the scope of an employer's obligation to release to the union personal information of bargaining unit members who are not union members and whether employees’ refusal to complete personal information forms can give rise to a concerted work refusal;
• Part II provides insight to the Board's jurisdiction over the administration and enforcement of the provisions relating to the operation of health and safety committees and whether an appeals officer is precluded from dealing with the same parties on the same issues previously dealt with by that appeals officer; and
• In Part III, the Federal Court confirms if the Code distinguishes between administrative and disciplinary dismissals, whether an arbitrator can excuse himself for bias where a matter is remitted back to him for a re-hearing and an elucidation of employer obligations before terminating employees for incompetence.