The absence of any kind of balance and any attempt to achieve mutual acceptability and consensus is corrosive of good labour relations and is likely to lead to substantial labour relations workplace instability. We know from bitter experience that employees who believe that they are working under unfair and arbitrary rules for determining their employment conditions will inevitably find ways to express their displeasure and unhappiness, resulting in low morale and lost productivity.
The proposed legislation stacks the deck in favour of the employer and does so in many ways. I want to focus quickly on three of the most important.
First, it stacks the deck by providing for unreviewable designation of essential service work.