LABOUR ARBITRATION IN CANADA
Third Edition
Morton Mitchnick
and
Brian Etherington
with the assistance of
Boris Bohuslawsky
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Lancaster House 2018
Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Mitchnick, M. G., author
Labour arbitration in Canada/Morton Mitchnick and Brian Etherington; with the assistance of Boris Bohuslawsky. Third edition.
Includes index.
Issued also in electronic formats.
ISBN: 978-0-920450-66-6 (softcover).ISBN 978-0-920450-67-3 (EPUB)
1. Arbitration, IndustrialLaw and legislationCanada. I. Etherington, Brian, author II. Bohuslawsky, Boris, editor III. Title.
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ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Mort Mitchnick, a graduate of McMaster University and the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, is a senior arbitrator and mediator. Formerly Chair of the Ontario Labour Relations Board, as well as national counsel to the law firm Borden Ladner Gervais, he lectures and writes extensively on labour law and labour arbitration. His writings include Union Security and the Charter, and Recent Developments in Compulsory Unionism, published in the International Labour Review.
Brian Etherington, a graduate of McMaster University, Queens University and Yale, is an arbitrator and mediator. A professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Windsor until his retirement in 2016, he taught labour arbitration, labour law, individual employment law and criminal law. Professor Etherington has frequently written about, and acted as a consultant on, administrative, constitutional, criminal and trade law, as well as labour and employment law. Editor-in-chief of the Canadian Labour and Employment Law Journal between 1995 and 2004, he is co-author of Labour Law in Canada, a division of the International Encyclopedia of Labour Law, and a member of the Canadian Labour Law Casebook Group.
Boris Bohuslawsky is a graduate of the University of Toronto, Queens University, and Osgoode Hall Law School. A member of the Bar of Ontario, he practised labour law for over 15 years, appearing before numerous boards of arbitration and other tribunals. He is a co-author of Leading Cases on Labour Arbitration, Collective Agreements in Canada, and Lancasters Collective Bargaining Series, and has been managing editor of the Canadian Labour and Employment Law Journal since 2003.
CITATIONS AND ABBREVIATIONS
ILLUSTRATION OF STATUTORY CITATION
ILLUSTRATIONS OF CANLII CASE CITATIONS
CanLII is a non-profit organization, engaged by the law societies of Canada that are members of the Federation of Law Societies of Canada, to establish, operate, maintain and provide a website dedicated to providing continuous access to a virtual library of Canadian legal information. CanLIIs goal is to make Canadian law accessible on the Internet. The present website (http://canlii.org) provides access to court judgments, tribunal decisions, statutes and regulations from all Canadian jurisdictions.
ILLUSTRATIONS OF QUICKLAW (QL) CASE CITATIONS
ILLUSTRATION OF PRINT REPORTER CASE CITATION
STATUTES
C.Q.L.R. | Consolidated Statutes of Quebec |
Reg./R.R. | Regulation/Revised Regulations |
S.A./R.S.A. | Statutes/Revised Statutes of Alberta |
S.B.C./R.S.B.C. | Statutes/Revised Statutes of British Columbia |
S.C./R.S.C. | Statutes/Revised Statutes of Canada |
S.M./C.C.S.M. | Statutes/Continuing Consolidation of the Statutes of Manitoba |
S.N.B./R.S.N.B. | Statutes/Revised Statutes of New Brunswick |
S.N.L./R.S.N.L. | Statutes/Revised Statutes of Newfoundland and Labrador |
S.N.S./R.S.N.S. | Statutes/Revised Statutes of Nova Scotia |
S.Nu. | Statutes of Nunavut |
S.N.W.T./R.S.N.W.T. | Statutes/Revised Statutes of the Northwest Territories |
S.O./R.S.O. | Statutes/Revised Statutes of Ontario |
S.P.E.I./R.S.P.E.I. | Statutes/Revised Statutes of Prince Edward Island |
S.S./R.S.S. | Statutes/Revised Statutes of Saskatchewan |
S.Y./R.S.Y. | Statutes/Revised Statutes of Yukon |
COURTS AND TRIBUNALS
A.D. | Appellate Division |
Alta. P.S.E.R.B. | Alberta Public Service Employee Relations Board |
B.C.C.H.R. | British Columbia Council of Human Rights |
Bd. of Inquiry | Board of Inquiry |
C.A. | Court of Appeal |
Co. Ct. | County Court |
C.R.O.A. | Canadian Railway Office of Arbitration |
C.S. | Cour suprieure |
Dist. Ct. | District Court |
Div. Ct. | Divisional Court |
F.C. | Federal Court |
F.C.A. | Federal Court of Appeal |
Gen. Div. | General Division |
H.C.J. | High Court of Justice |
H.R. Trib. | Human Rights Tribunal |
I.R.B. | Industrial Relations Board |
I.R.C. | Industrial Relations Council |
K.B. | Court of Kings Bench |
L.R.B. | Labour Relations Board |
N.B.L.E.B. | New Brunswick Labour and Employment Board |