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Why Do Workers Support Policies To Weaken Labour Rights?

Why Do Workers Support Policies To Weaken Labour Rights?

My colleague here at the School of HRM at York, Tony Fang, found a while back that the union wage premium in Canada is about 7.7% (see page…

Upcoming Work Law Conferences

Upcoming Work Law Conferences

It’s a busy time for labour and employment law academics. I, like many other scholars in work law and industrial relations, am bogged down right now in preparing…

Employment Law

The Two Sides of the Minimum Wage Debate: Friedman v. Kennedy

The Two Sides of the Minimum Wage Debate: Friedman v. Kennedy

The Ontario Budget came down yesterday, and includes a continued freeze of the base minimum…

Watch What Happens When Monkeys’ Paid Unequally

Watch What Happens When Monkeys’ Paid Unequally

Here’s a nice introduction to our class conversations about equal pay. Watch how the perception…

New Book Explores the Future of Work Regulation

New Book Explores the Future of Work Regulation

Harry Arthurs sends along notice of an important new book entitled Rethinking Workplace Regulation:  Beyond…

The Conservative Temporary Foreign Labour Program Fiasco

The Conservative Temporary Foreign Labour Program Fiasco

This story just gets weirder, and more troubling every day. Check out this list of…

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Does this CBC Ad Violate Human Rights, Labour Laws?

Does this CBC Ad Violate Human Rights, Labour Laws?

Wanted:  Male, 23-35, Any race except Caucasion, Non-union.  Send photo and audition tape to the CBC. So, employment law students, how many violations of the law do you…

Discriminating Employer Pays a Decade Later: Reinstated, Decade of Back Wages Ordered

Discriminating Employer Pays a Decade Later: Reinstated, Decade of Back Wages Ordered

Last winter, the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal issued a decision finding that an employer School Board had violated the Code by failing to accommodate an employee with a…

The Complex Relationship Between Discrimination Grievances and Human Rights Complaints

The Complex Relationship Between Discrimination Grievances and Human Rights Complaints

As we learn in Employment Law courses, work law is complicated by overlapping legal regimes.  For example, a single decision by an employer to dismiss an employee can…

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