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Submissions

• Guidelines and Instructions for Submissions
• Template for Submissions
• List of Submissions
  • Formal Brief: Canadian Labour Congress
  • Formal Brief: Association of Canadian Search, Employment & Staffing Services
  • Formal Brief: Félix Quinet
  • Formal Brief: Dr. Gerald Filson, Bahá'í Community of Canada
  • Formal Brief: National Anti-Poverty Organization
  • Formal Brief: Michael Hennessy, Canadian Cable Telecommunications Association
  • Formal Brief: Beverley Smith
  • Formal Brief: Saskatoon Caregiver Action Committee
  • Formal Brief: Canadian Chamber of Commerce
  • Formal Brief: Breastfeeding Committee for Canada
  • Formal Brief: Vanier Institute of the Family (PDF format)
  • Formal Brief: Campaign 2000; Laurel Rothman
  • Formal Brief: Canadian Council on Social Development
  • Formal Brief: Moms for Milk Breastfeeding Network; Janice Reynolds
  • Formal Brief: Balancing Work and Family Alliance; Johanne Brassard and Johanna Bergerman, co-chairs
  • Formal Brief: International Longshore and Warehouse Union - Canada, Grain Services Union (ILWU - Canada); Tom Dufresne, President; Hugh Wagner, General Secretary
  • Formal Brief: Income Security Advocacy Centre
  • Formal Brief: Amalgamated Transit Union - Canadian Council
  • Formal Brief: KAIROS; Michael Polanyi, Coordinator
  • Formal Brief: Collective of the Canadian Working Poor; Steven Kaasgaard, Bobby Sain
  • Formal Brief: Canadian Federation of Independent Business; Lucie Charron, Policy Analyst, André Piché, Director, National Affairs
  • Formal Brief: WestJet Airlines
  • Formal Brief: University of Manitoba; John Godard
  • Formal Brief: Work and Family Unit Saskatchewan Labour; Dr. Judith Martin, Executive Director
  • Formal Brief: Manitoba Federation of Labour
  • Formal Brief: United Food and Commercial Workers International Union; Brian B. McArthur, Special Assistant to the National Director
  • Formal Brief: Canadian Restaurant and Foodservices Association
  • Formal Brief: Canadian Auto Workers (CAW-Canada)
  • Formal Brief: Canadian Professional Drivers Association
  • Formal Brief: Women's Network PEI; Laurie Ann McCardle, Executive Director
  • Formal Brief: SaskTel; Robert Watson, President & CEO
  • Formal Brief: United Steel, Paper and Forestry, Rubber, Manufacturing, Energy, Allied Industrial and Service Workers International Union; Ken Neumann, National Director
  • Formal Brief: Saskatchewan Joint Board, Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (ILWU - CLC); Larry Kowalchuk, General Counsel
  • Formal Brief: Syndicat des communications de Radio-Canada (FNC-CSN)
  • Formal Brief: Work Less Party of BC; Tom Walker, Policy Coordinator
  • Formal Brief: Congress of Aboriginal Peoples; Audrey Lawrence
  • Formal Brief: Women's Network PEI; Michelle Ridgway, Project Coordinator Women's Network
  • Formal Brief: Fédération des travailleurs et travailleuses du Québec
  • Formal Brief: Conseil du patronat du Québec (CPQ) (PDF format)
  • Formal Brief: Saskatachewan Legislative Board of the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (PDF format)
  • Formal Brief: Force Jeunesse (PDF format)
  • Formal Brief: Federally Regulated Employers - Transportation and Communications (FETCO)
  • Formal Brief: Fédération canadienne de l'entreprise indépendante (FCEI); André Lavoie, analyste principal des politiques; Richard Fahey, vice-président, Québec (PDF format)
  • Formal Brief: Breastfeeding Coalition of Newfoundland and Labrador
  • Formal Brief: Breastfeeding Coalition of Newfoundland and Labrador
  • Formal Brief: National Academy Of Arbitrators (Region 7)
  • Formal Brief: SuccessBy6® Saskatoon
  • Formal Brief: Reproductive Health Program, Peterborough County-City Health Unit
  • Formal Brief: The Best Start Resource Centre
  • Formal Brief: Cultural Human Resources Council (CHRC)
  • Formal Brief: Au bas de l’échelle (PDF format)
  • Formal Brief: Confédération des syndicats nationaux (CSN)
  • Formal Brief: Canadian Teachers' Federation (PDF format)
  • Formal Brief: Canadian Association of Food Banks (PDF format)
  • Formal Brief: Canadian Bar Association (PDF format)
  • Formal Brief: Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) - New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia (PDF format)
  • Formal Brief: Public Service Alliance of Canada
  • Formal Brief: Newfoundland and Labrador Employers' Council
  • Formal Brief: Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) - Newfoundland and Labrador (PDF format)
  • Formal Brief: St. John's Board of Trade (PDF format)
  • Formal Brief: Manitoba Chambers of Commerce
  • Formal Brief: Air Line Pilots Association, International (ALPA) (PDF format)
  • Formal Brief: Calgary Chamber of Commerce
  • Formal Brief: FEED NOVA SCOTIA
  • Formal Brief: Canadian Trucking Alliance (PDF format)
  • Formal Brief: Canadian Bankers Association
  • Formal Brief: Newfoundland and Labrador Federation of Labour
  • Formal Brief: Workers Action Centre and Employment Standards Work Group
  • Formal Brief: Women's Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF) (PDF format)
  • Formal Brief: Workers' Organizing Resource Centre
  • Formal Brief: Women's Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF)), LEAF-Edmonton (PDF format)
  • Formal Brief: Nova Scotia Advisory Council on the Status of Women (PDF format)
  • Formal Brief: Native Women’s Association of Canada
  • Formal Brief: Canadian Media Guild
  • Formal Brief: Canadian Association of Counsel to Employers
  • Formal Brief: Airline Division of CUPE
  • Formal Brief: Teamsters Canada
  • Letter: Kristen Dietrich
  • Letter: Name withheld (individual)
  • Letter: Richard Pereira
  • Letter: Carol Swick
  • Letter: Jeremy Price
  • Letter: Darryl Amirault, Premiere Van Lines
  • Letter: Name withheld (Transport company)
  • Letter: Kathy Crawford
  • Letter: Chief Fabian Batise, Matachewan First Nation
  • Letter: Name withheld (employer)
  • Letter: Dave Kovach
  • Letter: Alan Black
  • Letter: Name withheld (Transport company)
  • Letter: Name withheld (Transport company)
  • Letter: Bill Gault
  • Letter: John McDougall, Atlantic Turbines International Inc.
  • Letter: Ontario Milk Transport Association
  • Letter: Name withheld (individual)
  • Letter: Name withheld (individual)

Public Consultations

• Public Consultations Process
• Schedule and Locations
  Participants and Agenda for the Public Consultations Hearings in:
  • Whitehorse, Yukon
  • Ottawa, Ontario
  • Toronto, Ontario
  • Regina, Saskatchewan
  • Winnipeg, Manitoba
  • Vancouver, British Columbia
  • Edmonton, Alberta
  • Calgary, Alberta
  • Montreal, Quebec
  • Moncton, New Brunswick
  • Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island
  • Halifax, Nova Scotia
  • St. John's, Newfoundland
• Registration | (PDF format)
• Consultation Paper | (PDF format)

Commission Research Program

• Executive Summary: New Compliance Strategies: Review of Enforcement Procedures - Paul Gallina
• Executive Summary: Conceptual Approach to Identifying Workers Most in Need of Labour Standards Protection - Stéphanie Bernstein
• Executive Summary: Social and Economic Impact of Labour Standards - Morley Gunderson
• Executive Summary: Canadian Workers Most in Need of Labour Standards Protection: A Review of the Nature and Extent of Vulnerability In the Canadian Labour Market and Federal Jurisdiction - Richard Chaykowski
• Executive Summary: Validation Study: Employment Conditions and Work Arrangements in Federal Jurisdiction Industries - Richard Chaykowski
• Executive Summary: Comparing Labour Standards Across Jurisdictions - Richard Block
• Executive Summary: The Scope of Federal Labour Standards and Non-Traditional Employment Relationships - Jean Bernier
• Executive Summary: Social Protection for Non-traditional Workers Outside the Employment Relationship - Jean Bernier
• Executive Summary: Wage Protection and Recovery - Roderick J. Wood
• Executive Summary: New Labour Standards Compliance Strategies: Corporate Codes of Conduct and Social Labeling Programs - Patrick Macklem and Michael Trebilcock
• Executive Summary: Setting and Administration of Sectoral Employment Standards - Mark Thompson
• Executive Summary: Does One Size Fit All? Employment Standards and Special Treatment - Ron Saunders
• Executive Summary: Control Over Time and Work-Life Balance: An Empirical Analysis - Graham Lowe
• Executive Summary: Control Over Working Time and Work-Life Balance: A Detailed Analysis of the Canada Labour Code, Part III - Judy Fudge
• Executive Summary: Work-Life Balance - Sandra Fredman
• Executive Summary: Unjust Dismissal and Other Termination-Related Provisions - Geoffrey England
• Executive Summary: Labour Standard Issues in the Interprovincial Canadian Trucking Industry - Garland Chow
• Executive Summary: Miminum Wages in Canada: Theory, Evidence and Policy - Morley Gunderson
• Executive Summary: The Contribution of Labour Standards to a Strategy for Human Capital - Jean Charest
• Executive Summary: Rights, Respect and Dignity in the Workplace: Interface between Labour Standards and Human Rights Legislation - Colleen Sheppard
• Executive Summary: The Role of Employee Voice in Obtaining Better Labour Standards - Anil Verma

About Us

• Biographies
• Terms of Reference
  • Harry Arthurs
  • Daphne Taras, Gilles Trudeau and Sherry Liang

Media Room

• News Releases
  • Minister Fontana announces appointment to lead review of federal labour standards
  • The Federal Labour Standards Review Commission will be holding a public hearing in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

• Radio Interviews
  • Improving The Workplace

Resources

• Backgrounders
  • The Changing Face of Canadian Workplaces
  • Part III (Labour Standards) Canada Labour Code
  • Overview of Part III of the Canada Labour Code (Labour Standards)
• Links to other sources