Unions are watching to see if remote work would be built into a collective bargaining agreement. Read more at straitstimes.com.
reached its seventh day on Tuesday as public and private unions watched to see if remote working would be built into the collective bargaining agreement.However this is the first new contract to be negotiated since the Covid-19 pandemic hit, which forced millions to work remotely and has given the union an additional negotiating point.
“If they do get the remote work language in the collective agreement, then others will be inspired to do the same.” While the union acknowledges that not every job can be done remotely, it says it wants to stick up for those that can. If made a part of the new agreement, “the onus would be on the manager to say ‘No’, and the employee could launch a grievance and these issues would enter the world of labour relations,” Prof Wernick said. “Management doesn’t want to go there.”It said in a statement to Reuters that it “cannot agree” enshrining remote work into collective agreements because it would restrict “managers’ ability to manage their teams”, undermining services and team-building.
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