2986-99-U My Building Corporation, Deerfield-Schickedanz and Kansun Homes Limited and B.G. Schickedanz Homes Inc., Applicants v. Labourers’ International Union of North America Local 183, Responding Party.
BEFORE: John Morgan Lewis, Vice-Chair.
DECISION OF THE BOARD; June 15, 2000
1This is a Request for Reconsideration of the Board’s decision dated April 20, 2000.
2Pursuant to section 114(1) of the Labour Relations Act, 1995 (the “Act”), the Board has a broad discretion to reconsider any decision or order made by it and to vary or revoke any such decision or order. However, the Board has repeatedly indicated that it will not reconsider its earlier decisions unless there are good and valid reasons for doing so. Circumstances in which the Board has been prepared to reconsider an earlier decision or order include those in which the decision contains an obvious error; where the request raises important policy issues which have not been adequately addressed; where new evidence is sought to be presented which could not, with the exercise of due diligence, have been obtained and presented previously and which could, if accepted, make a difference to the decision; and where representations are sought to be made which the party seeking reconsideration had no previous opportunity to make.
3The basis for this reconsideration does not fall within any of these grounds.
4Without suggesting that all of the legal and factual assertions contained in the request were made at the hearing, the essence of the request is an attempt to reargue the case.
5There is no basis for reconsidering the Board’s April 20, 2000 decision.
“John Morgan Lewis”
for the Board