B.C. NDP government adjusts labour code, tipping balance in workers’ favour GlobeBC
After the changes were introduced in the legislature Tuesday morning, Labour Minister Harry Bains, seen here in June, 2017, told reporters his government is committed to adopting all 29 recommendations from a three-member panel appointed in February, 2018, to complete the first comprehensive public review of the provincial labour code since 1992.
The amendments will retain secret ballot votes for union certifications but will give the Labour Relations Board broader discretion to impose union certification if an employer is found to have interfered in the process. The changes will also extend the successorship protection that union contracts enjoy to service contracts re-tendered by employers in janitorial, security, transportation, food and non-clinical health services. Mr. Bains said this would stop the “contract flipping” in these sectors, which often sees workers, many of whom are racialized women, having to reapply for the same jobs with a new company that does not offer the same benefits and pay.Jock Finlayson, executive vice-president of the B.C.
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