Human Resources committee  That's part of an established long-term disability plan. If you get to a point where an illness or injury is such that it's determined that the individual cannot continue to work for an extended period, then the employee can be placed on that until they can at least return to wor

Human Resources committee  The right to strike certainly does. What the essential services provisions do is to allow those areas—and certainly even the Supreme Court contemplates this—so that the safety and security interests of the public can be protected in this way. However, it's the balance that you

Human Resources committee  We believe so. After reviewing the Supreme Court decision in the Saskatchewan Federation of Labour case, we did take a very close look at our current legislation, and in the process of looking at essentially returning to the previous regime, we've addressed some of the core issue

Human Resources committee  You're correct. The changes to this particular act under discussion today, the PSLRA, were all made at the same time in the original bill. However, this particular bill does not deal with those particular changes or amendments. They're part of the Canada Labour Code and the respo