Labour and Employment

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Articles

  • LegalTrac provides indexing and selective full-text for major law reviews, legal newspapers, bar association journals, and international legal journals.
  • K3.A4882
    This journal provides in-depth analysis of key issues in labour and employment law. It also provides commentary on major legislative and case law developments.
  • Contains more than 1,000 law and law_related periodicals. Coverage is from the first issue published for all periodicals and goes through the most_currently published issues allowed based on contracts with publishers. Searching can be done by title or author name, as well as full_text searching of the collection or select periodicals. The Law Journal Library in HeinOnline includes a collection of Criminal Justice journals. HeinOnline has also added to its database the English Reports, Full Reprint.
  • K12.A2467
    This resource contains articles on current and controversial issues in arbitration. It includes insights from trade unionists, management and arbitrators.
  • KE3206.A48L576
    This newsletter is published 6 times per year and provides coverage of arbitration awards, court cases and legislation involving collective agreement interpretation.
  • KE173.C664
    The Index to Canadian Legal Literature is a bibliographic index to Canadian law journals and public legal education materials, books reviews, and cases cited in journal articles. The print set is kept in the law library and electronic versions are found in Quicklaw and in WestlaweCarswell.

Databases

  • Labour Spectrum (previously the Canadian Labour Law Library) includes volumes of labour law decisions and commentary covering decades of court decisions. The product features: Canadian Labour Arbitration, Fourth Edition (CLA), [Brown & Beatty] Labour Arbitration Cases (LAC), Series 1-4 Canadian Labour Arbitration Summaries (CLAS).


  • LexisNexis Canada launched its new version of the LexisNexis® QuicklawTM online legal research service in 2006. The database is now a combination of Quicklaw and Lexis.com. Second and Third-year students,as well as Faculty who still have a Lexis.com account will be able to continue using that service until all the Lexis features (Shepard's) have been moved over to the new platform.

    All Law students receive their own personal password for the LexisNexis Quicklaw service for use during the three years of law school. As part of first-year orientation, library staff arrange for lab sessions to take students through the steps of getting a LexisNexis Quicklaw password. Training is also provided as part of LRWA. If you do not have a password, please speak to a lab supervisor or Elizabeth Bruton (219-F).

    URL: http://www.lexisnexis.com/ca/legal
    ACCESS: Your personal password will give you access from home as well.
    Group source – Labour and Employment Law
  • All Law students receive their own personal password for the WestlaweCanada service for use during the three years of law school. As part of first-year orientation, library staff arrange for lab sessions to take students through the steps of getting a WestlaweCanada password. Training is also provided as part of LRWA. If you do not have a password, please speak to a lab supervisor or Elizabeth Bruton (219-F).

    URL: http://www.westlawecarswell.com/lawschool/
    ACCESS: Your personal password will give you access from home as well.
    • Canadian Labour and Employment Case Law (CANLAB-CS)
    • Canadian Cases on Employment Law (articles) (CCEL-ART)

Texts and Treatises

  • KF3424.M583 2002
    This publication is divided into three volumes: evidence and procedure; discharge and discipline and; contract interpretation. It includes key passages from leading cases; case summaries; recent cases and awards and decisions of arbitrators and courts.
  • KF3471.B873
    A practical annotated guide to employment relationships and terminations.
  • KF3320.ZB3P374
    This publication includes the full text of the Act and all regulations; It includes a collection of digests and commentary on : application, administration and enforcement of the Act; payment of wages, overtime and holiday and vacation pay; hours of work and overtime; record keeping; equal pay for equal work; various kinds of leaves; termination and severance of employment; offences and penalties.
  • KF3408.S332
    This publication includes chapters on : organization of the Board and practice; certification and termination of bargaining rights; unfair labour practices; sale of a business and related employers; jurisdictional disputes; construction industry labour law; first contract arbitration; appointment of conciliation officers and arbitrators; proceedings under other statutes; judicial review of decisions; the impact of the Charter.
  • KF3457.S67
    This publication includes information on wrongful dismissal and also includes an examination of discriminatory practices under the Ontario Human Rights code and offences under the Employment Standards Act, 2000. It further includes practical insights into hiring and firing practices; precedents; forms of employment contracts; warning letters and; termination letters.
  • KF3319.A332
    This publication includes labour relations statutes, labour board decisions and judicial cases from all jurisdictions on a variety of topics including: bargaining rights; the collective agreement; unfair labour practice proceedings; the construction industry; regulation of industrial conflict; the impact of the Charter; internal affairs of trade unions and; the effect of judicial review on board decisions.
  • KF3457.B34
    This publication includes a complete range of employment law in Canada including: wrongful dismissal; fiduciary obligations; tort law and vicarious liability; remedies; constitutional issues; occupational health and safety; employment contracts and; duty of good faith and human rights.
  • KF3544.G678 1991
    This publication provides coverage of all procedural and evidentiary issues that relate to labour arbitration in Canada.
  • KF3471.H379
    This comprehensive legal reference provides in-depth treatment of wrongful dismissal law and includes awards for mental distress; constructive dismissal; punitive and aggravated damages; just cause for dismissal; impact of employment contracts; Crown employees’ special status; tax considerations; settlement negotiations.
  • KF3471.L48 2003
    This publication summarizes all significant cases before the Canadian courts in the area of dismissal law. It includes reasonable notice charts , checklists, summaries of significant decisions and analysis and commentary on landmark cases.

Web Sites

  • e-Laws is a database of Ontario's statutes and regulations, both consolidated and source law.
  • The Ontario Labour Relations Board is an independent, quasi-judicial tribunal mandated to mediate and adjudicate a variety of employment and labour relations-related matters under a number of Ontario statutes.
  • The Canada Industrial Relations Board is an independent, representational, quasi-judicial tribunal responsible for the interpretation and administration of Part I (Industrial Relations), and certain provisions of Part II (Occupational Health and Safety) of the Canada Labour Code.