The United States and Canada are each other's most important trading partner. With more than two billion dollars in goods and services crossing the U.S.-Canada border every day, our economies and our labor forces are becoming increasingly intertwined. Understanding each other's employment climate and workplace rights is becoming a necessity. Canadian labor law occupies a prominent place in the Canadian economy. Approximately 30 percent of the Canadian workforce is unionized, including many important national industries such as mining, aeronautics, broadcasting, transportation, construction, telecommunications, heavy manufacturing, and the public sector. Collective agreements in these industries set the trends for wage and benefit levels right across the economy.Labor law in Canada was deeply inspired by the American Wagner Act, and closely mirrored it for many decades. Since the 1970s, however, Canadian labor laws have been regularly amended, and differ in many significant ways from the U.S.s National Labor Relations Act. Understanding these differences is key to understanding the industrial relations culture in Canada.Join Dr. Michael Lynk, Associate Dean, Academic and Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, at the University of Western Ontario. Dr. Lynk has taught labor, human rights, constitutional, and administrative law at Western Law since 1999. In addition, he has also taught labor law at the University of Ottawa and Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand). He is a graduate of Dalhousie University (LL.B.) and Queens University (LL.M.). Before becoming an academic, he practiced labor law in Ottawa and Toronto for a decade.
Key Issues that Dr. Lynk will be address during the Webinar include:
Dr. Michael Lynk, Associate Dean, Academic and Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, the University of Western Ontario