Human Resources committee  It's a matter that's already being dealt with. Privacy law is applied to us as a fiduciary duty, the internal working of unions. If somebody wants to talk out of school, they're not going to be an officer too long. These are things that we deal with today. These are conflicts t

Human Resources committee  Yes. You have our document. If you look at subsection 19.1(1) of Occupational Health and Safety Regulations, we would add “and mental health” in the workplace, so that it becomes part of the workplace committees. It's a matter of getting it into the hopper, where it isn't just so

Human Resources committee  The workplace committee is made up of two parties. Clearly, we have good and bad employers, and those who are in-between. This is a workplace issue. In work there are two parties—three parties, I guess. There is the employer, the union, and, of course, the worker. Being in the wo

Human Resources committee  What do unions do? We're sort of creating an artificial line here on a workplace committee. When a worker has a grievance, there are different routes they can take, but one of course is to go to the health and safety committee, if not to a job steward for a different process. At

Human Resources committee  As somebody who has kicked this around a bit, I think there's a big difference between legislation and regulations. Over the past three decades that I've been doing this, more and more people are saying that they'll deal with it in regulations. Fact: what you say here, what your

Human Resources committee  Thank you very much, Madame Trudel, and a big shout-out to Sheri Benson for helping us in a lot of her work. When we viewed it, there were many different ways to take it. This definition is actually quite soft. In other words, it doesn't put out a lot of details. That's left fo

Human Resources committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair, and I thank the committee for having us before it. My name is Phil Benson. I'm a lobbyist for Teamsters Canada. With me is brother Cody Woodcock. Teamsters Canada supports Bill C-65 and endorses the Canadian Labour Congress submission. Today we will not