With this amendment, it would be a broadening of the reinstatement provision found at clause 7. That would amend section 87.6 of the code.
What it would essentially provide now, as amended, is that when striking or locked-out workers return to their jobs after the strike or lockout ends, they have preferential reinstatement over any other person who may have been performing any kind of work for the employer during the strike or lockout.
As section 87.6 had been written, there was a small chance that if the employer brought in new employees during a strike or lockout under those exception conditions that we have in the bill in proposed subsection 94(7), then they wouldn't be captured by that reinstatement. Thus, returning workers wouldn't necessarily be given preferential treatment over them.
This would be broader and capture those people as well. That's the change this amendment would make.