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Finance committee Right, and there are provinces that have provincial legislation stipulating wage rates in particular industries.
May 17th, 2012Committee meeting
Lenore Duff
Finance committee I think the primary rationale for eliminating this is that it's duplicative. There is provincial and territorial labour standards legislation applied to these workers. In this instance, it's a federal standard that was established in the 1930s at a time when provincial labour leg
May 17th, 2012Committee meeting
Lenore Duff
Finance committee Bell Canada is a federally regulated industry, yes.
May 17th, 2012Committee meeting
Lenore Duff
Finance committee Well, in this instance, this only applies to the construction sector, so typically it wouldn't apply to communications workers.
May 17th, 2012Committee meeting
Lenore Duff
Finance committee There was always a requirement to file collective agreements, so the rationale for this was simply to try to encourage compliance with the measure. In the past, there have been some difficulties obtaining collective agreements from particular organizations. There is a service at
May 17th, 2012Committee meeting
Lenore Duff
Finance committee Sorry, perhaps I should clarify that. This is a DRAP-related measure, a deficit reduction action plan related measure. Currently, someone is responsible in the labour program for making certain that the collective agreements that haven't been filed are tracked down, because it's
May 17th, 2012Committee meeting
Lenore Duff
Finance committee I have a couple more.
May 17th, 2012Committee meeting
Lenore Duff
Finance committee There's another part to division 22—and then I'm here for division 23, as well.
May 17th, 2012Committee meeting
Lenore Duff
Finance committee The other part of division 22 is another amendment to the Canada Labour Code, unrelated to the first one. This amends part III of the Canada Labour Code to require federally regulated employers to insure, on a go-forward basis, any long-term disability plans they may offer to the
May 17th, 2012Committee meeting
Lenore Duff
Finance committee Yes. Division 23 in the part IV of the bill repeals the Fair Wages and Hours of Labour Act, which was enacted in 1935. It stipulates that all persons employed by a contractor doing work on a federal government contract for construction, remodelling, repair, or demolition of any
May 17th, 2012Committee meeting
Lenore Duff
Finance committee Division 22 contains two elements. The first one consists of clauses 432 and 433, which amend section 115 of the Canada Labour Code, which in turn requires that unions and employers to file their collective agreements with the Minister of Labour. There is currently no mechanism
May 17th, 2012Committee meeting
Lenore Duff
Finance committee They are occupied. They work only on appeals, but not only on hearing appeals; they do background research and investigation as well.
May 5th, 2010Committee meeting
Lenore Duff
Finance committee Yes, they are fully occupied in the appeals process.
May 5th, 2010Committee meeting
Lenore Duff
Finance committee When I said that they would be kept within the public service, I mean that they would fill positions that are vacant or positions from which people retire. They wouldn't be leaving the public service. It would be by attrition. We would be filling other positions that become vacan
May 5th, 2010Committee meeting
Lenore Duff
Finance committee As I said, our expectation is that the 90-day timeline is a reasonable limit and that the appeals will be heard and processed in that period of time.
May 5th, 2010Committee meeting
Lenore Duff