Employee and Labour Relations: Legislation and Benefits of Unionization in Canada

EMPLOYEE AND
LABOUR
RELATIONS

Table of Content
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
PART A...........................................................................................................................................1
Labour Relation Act.....................................................................................................................1
Employment Standards Legislation.............................................................................................1
Human Rights Legislation...........................................................................................................1
Occupational Health and Safety Legislation................................................................................2
Worker's Compensation legislation.............................................................................................2
PART B............................................................................................................................................2
Characteristics of Unionized Workforce in Canada....................................................................2
Benefits of Unionization to Workers...........................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................3
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................4

INTRODUCTION
This essay portrays legislation which is regulated in Canada for labour relations.
Unionization In Canada is discussed in brief as it changed the economic activities effectively in
country. Furthermore, essay highlights the importance and benefits of unionization to employees
with brief explanation of function and roles and union plays in Canada.
PART A
Labour Relation Act
The labour relation Act support the benefit and regulates to support labours in Canada
from Private organization to reduce exploitation and discrimination. This law helps to provide
rights and protection to labours in business organization (Gomez & Gunderson, 2016). Act
provides in integrated bargaining power to labour with employers which help labours to take
decision freely. Act helps to provide responsibilities to employees and employers to make
effective decision and be in legal boundaries to be more effective. For example, Amberber vs
IBM Canada Ltd is a case which portrays that as the employees was dismissed from his job he
has the right to fight in court for his unfair dismissal.
Employment Standards Legislation
This legislation helps the employees to provide minimum standards with rights and
responsibilities of employees in Canada. This legislation also considers greater rights of
employees as benefits of employee to protect them with their employers and improve the quality
of standard of living. Payment of wages, overtime pay, personal emergency leave all the covered
in this legislation. For example, Canada provide pension plans for employees to ensure their
minimum wages and employment standards.
Human Rights Legislation
Human rights legislation of Canada provides equal opportunity to all the citizens of the
country which are discriminated on religion, sex, nationality, colour, age. This is a federal
legislation of Canada and it is applied to every province and region according to orientation of
citizens in the area (Rose, 2019). The legislation also protects victims by communicating with
the hate messages. In the case of terry grismer vs superintendent if motor vehicles who
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