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Employer Liability Issues Unions Holidays

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A Labor Christmas Carol: A Cautionary Tale of Excluding Unionized Employees from Holiday Perks

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Employers should be wary of the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come (and/or the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)) before excluding unionized workers from holiday parties and similar perks given to nonunionized employees....more

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Ontario, Canada Appellate Court Finds National Day of Mourning to Honour Memory of Queen Elizabeth II Not a Paid Holiday under...

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In Ottawa Police Services Bd. v. Ottawa Police Assn., 2023 ONSC 6225, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice (Divisional Court) (Ont. SCJ (Div. Ct.)) quashed an arbitrator’s decision allowing two grievances that claimed...more

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Ontario, Canada Arbitrator Finds Employer Did Not Violate Collective Agreements by Not Recognizing National Day of Mourning as...

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In a recent decision under the Labor Relations Act, 1995, Arbitrator Adam Beatty dismissed four union grievances concerning the National Day of Mourning, which was declared following the death of Queen Elizabeth. The grievors...more

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Unions Mourn British Columbia Arbitrator’s Decision That Queen’s National Day of Mourning Was Not a Statutory Holiday

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A Labour Arbitrator decided that the National Day of Mourning for Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II was not a statutory holiday under five private sector collective agreements in British Columbia. In Construction Labour...more

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Employer Did Not Violate Duty To Bargain Over Change To Christmas Gift Policy, NLRB Rules

What would the holiday season be without a Christmas gift case?  A perennial problem for labor relations personnel is whether the yearly Christmas turkey given to employees is something that an employer must bargain over...more

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