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Clean Slate and the Wagner Model: Comparative Labor Law and a New Plurality
Description: Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3560993 Abstract: Ever since Canada imported the basic features of the U.S. Wagner Act in the 1940s there has been a natural tendency for academics and […]
Back to the Future of Canadian Labour Law
Description: Available at SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3576016 Abstract The invitation to present the H.D. Woods Lecture came with a proposed subject: the future of labour law. That future won’t come by means […]
David Beatty’s Redemption (And Other Thoughts on the Future of Labour Law)
Description: Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3536540 Abstract: The future of Canadian labor law won’t come by means of a sudden legislative tsunami that sweeps in broad-based sectoral collective bargaining or some […]
Lost in Translation: Rana Plaza, Loblaw, and the Disconnect Between Legal Formality and Corporate Social Responsibility
Description: SSRN download: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3265826 Abstract: Canada’s largest retailer was a major buyer from factories in Bangladesh’s Rana Plaza when the building collapsed in 2013 killing 1,130 people. Most of the […]
Just Transitions Law: Putting Labour Law To Work On Climate Change
Description: Forthcoming in “Canadian Journal of Environmental Law and Policy”