The Supreme Court of Canada will be issuing its long-awaited decision in Fraser v. Ontario later this morning.
I will be at Labour Arbitration conference at the ROM this morning when it is released, along with Professors Bernie Adell, Kevin Banks, Brian Etherington, and others and many from the labour law bar.
The case is expected to further explain the developing scope of Section 2(d) Freedom of Association in the Charter. The case involves the exclusion of agricultural workers from the Labour Relations Act, and the scope of the Agricultural Employees Protection Act, 2002, which granted some rights to those workers, but not the full arsenal of rights available to most other Ontario workers. Word on the street is that this decision took so very long to be written–it was argued in December 2009–has been a source of considerable tension among the Supreme Court justices. The entire international labour law community is interested in this case.
I have done numerous blog entries on this case already, plus some guest blogs from Professor Roy Adams. Here’s the links:
Real Pleadings: Fraser v. Ontario
Fraser v. Ontario: Court of Appeal Finds Ontario Violated Right to Collective Bargaining
Leave Granted in Fraser v. Ontario
Watch the SCC Hearing in Fraser v. Ontario
Ontario Violates International Human Rights Laws…. Again (discussing the ILO’s finding that the Agricultural Employees Protection Act is inconsistent with ILO principles of freedom of association)
Roy Adams on the Fraser Case and International Labour Standards
Roy Adams on the Fraser Case and the Recent ILO Decision
Newsflash: SCC to Release Fraser v. Ontario Today!
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