The Annotated Ontario Labour Relations Act is your key to understanding the ever-changing labour relations regime in Ontario. A quick and portable reference tool, this publication reproduces a fully annotated version of the Labour Relations Act, as well as up-to-date consolidations of Regulations under the Act, and the Ontario Labour Relations Board's (OLRB) current Rules of Procedure, forms, and information bulletins.

The 2021 edition incorporates case digests from the latest key OLRB and court decision and is current to June 2020. Of note, it includes many of the cases that address the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Board’s administration and procedure, including cases dealing with adjournments, production, and the scheduling of videoconference hearings.

What’s inside:

• The full text of the Ontario Labour Relations Act, as amended
• Section-by-section annotations
• Labour Relations Act regulations
• The Ontario Labour Relations Board’s Rules of Procedure
• Information on the process for resolving applications before the Ontario Labour Relations Board
• Selected notices and information bulletins of the Ontario Labour Relations Board, including those related to COVID-19
• Additional relevant legislation, including an annotated version of the Hospital Labour Disputes Arbitration Act

Highlights for this edition:

Updated caselaw, including:

• A decision of the OLRB (while sitting as a Board of Arbitration) on post-incident drug and alcohol testing
• OLRB decisions related to the Board’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic with respect to adjournments, videoconference hearings, the calling of viva voce evidence over a videoconference platform, and holding of electronic representation votes
• OLRB notices to the community about COVID-19