On November 9, 2023 the Minister of Labour introduced legislation to ban the use of replacement workers by federally regulated employers during labour disputes. A replacement worker is a person who does the work of a unionized worker who is on strike or locked out.
Currently, Part I of the Canada Labour Code only prohibits employers from using replacement workers if they are ...
One of the vexing issues that employers face in dealing with poor performers in the non-union context is whether it is more cost effective to terminate the employee’s employment without cause or to put the employee on a performance improvement plan (“PIP”), with the goal of establishing termination for just cause when the employee fails to meet the performance ...
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