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Court of Appeal confirms s. 133 of the LRA does not allow OLRB to relieve against untimely referral of construction industry grievance to arbitration

Two days ago, the Court of Appeal for Ontario released its decision in Greater Essex County District School Board, confirming the Divisional Court’s quashing a decision of the Ontario Labour Relations Board to hear an untimely construction industry grievance. The proceedings originated in a construction industry grievance, which was filed in July 2004 by the United Association of…

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Video: Contingency planning for safety incidents in the workplace

Heenan Blaikie’s Jeremy Warning recently spoke at the Construction Labour Relations Conference in Toronto, hosted by Insight Information. During the session “Preparing for the Worst: How to Respond to a High Risk Incident” Jeremy provided advice on contingency planning for safety incidents in the workplace. This is the fourth and last video from Jeremy’s presentation….

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Video: How to react to an injury in the workplace

Heenan Blaikie’s Jeremy Warning recently spoke at the Construction Labour Relations Conference in Toronto, hosted by Insight Information. During the session “Preparing for the Worst: How to Respond to a High Risk Incident” Jeremy provided advice to construction managers on what to do if there is an injury at the workplace. This is the third…

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Video: Drafting a Workplace Safety Incident Response Plan

Heenan Blaikie’s Jeremy Warning recently spoke at the Construction Labour Relations Conference in Toronto, hosted by Insight Information. During the session “Preparing for the Worst: How to Respond to a High Risk Incident” Jeremy gave advice to construction managers on how to effectively draft an incident response plan. This is the second video from a…

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Union “Salting” under attack in US Congress

A Bill has been introduced into the US Congress that would amend the National Labor Relations Act to allow employers to deny employment to undercover union organizers, often known as “salts”.