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Board grants consent request to add and correct responding party names and orders notice posting.
The applicants sought to add and correct the names of the responding parties in multiple applications before the Ontario Labour Relations Board.
The responding parties consented to the additions and name changes.
The Board ordered the responding parties to post a notice to millwright employees affected by the application and adjourned the matters to be scheduled by the Registrar.
Employer ordered to pay damages for failing to hire union members in undefended grievance arbitration.
The applicant union referred a grievance to arbitration under section 133 of the Labour Relations Act, 1995, alleging the responding party failed to hire three union members referred to a job, contrary to the collective agreement.
The responding party did not file a response or attend the hearing.
The Board accepted the union's uncontested evidence, found the responding party bound by the collective agreement, and ordered it to pay $10,852.28 in damages and filing fees for the breach.
Unfair labour practice complaint and grievance referral deferred pending resolution of underlying jurisdictional dispute.
The applicant union filed a grievance referral and an unfair labour practice complaint against the employer and a rival union.
The responding union raised a preliminary objection, arguing the matter was essentially a jurisdictional dispute over work assignment that should be dealt with under section 99 of the Labour Relations Act, 1995.
The Board agreed and deferred the applications pending the filing and disposition of a section 99 application.
The Board also addressed a request to add two individuals as responding parties, declining to add them at this time due to lack of service, but dismissing the responding union's objection to their addition.
Inspector's order requiring electrician certification for hanger installation rescinded following parties' settlement.
The applicant appealed an order made by an Occupational Health and Safety Inspector which required workers installing hangers and brackets on a casino construction project to hold a certificate of qualification as an Electrician Branch 1.
The order had resulted in the applicant's members being removed from the job and replaced by electricians.
On the fourth day of the hearing, the parties reached a resolution.
Pursuant to their memorandum of agreement, the Board rescinded the Inspector's order and noted the Ministry of Labour's policies regarding jurisdictional disputes and compulsory trades.
Subcontractor, not general contractor, is the 'employer' assigning work in a jurisdictional dispute; assignment upheld.
The Iron Workers filed a jurisdictional dispute regarding the assignment of window and curtain wall installation work at a nursing home project.
The general contractor, PCL, subcontracted the work to AGS, who assigned it to members of the Glaziers union.
The Iron Workers argued that PCL was the 'employer' assigning the work and was bound by a subcontracting clause in their collective agreement.
The Board held that the subcontractor, AGS, was the 'employer' for the purposes of section 99(1)(b) of the Labour Relations Act, 1995.
Considering employer and area practice, the Board upheld AGS's assignment of the work to the Glaziers and dismissed the application.
Board orders two non-teaching bargaining units following school board amalgamation.
In the context of a school board amalgamation, the applicant union applied for a single 'all employee' non-teaching bargaining unit.
The responding employer and two other unions proposed two bargaining units: one for maintenance/service and one for office/clerical/teaching assistants.
The Ontario Labour Relations Board determined that two bargaining units were appropriate, noting the history of a successful two-unit structure at one of the predecessor boards and the substantial size of each proposed unit.
Employer breached duty to bargain in good faith by refusing to provide union with individual employee salary data.
The complainant union filed an unfair labour practice complaint alleging that the respondent employer violated the Labour Relations Act by refusing to provide the salaries paid to each named individual in the bargaining unit prior to collective bargaining.
The employer argued that individual employees might not want their salaries disclosed.
The Ontario Labour Relations Board held that the employer's refusal constituted a breach of the duty to make every reasonable effort to conclude a collective agreement under section 15 of the Act, as the union required the information to formulate proposals and administer the collective agreement.
The Board directed the employer to provide the requested salary information.
