( Disponible en anglais seulement )
Advising ETFO Members Not to Participate in Extra-Curricular Activities Constitutes A Strike
The long awaited Ontario Labour Relations Board (“OLRB”) decision with respect to the application by the Upper Canada District School Board and Trillium Lakelands District School Board alleging that the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario (“ETFO”) acted unlawfully when it...
( Disponible en anglais seulement )
Teacher Awarded $20K in Damages for Harassment by Principal and Board Staff
A long service teacher who required accommodations for disability needs was assigned and subsequently disciplined as a result of a variety of concerns. She grieved and was found to have suffered harassment within the meaning of the Ontario Human Rights...
( Disponible en anglais seulement )
Interim Orders by the HRTO Might be the New Reality for Student Matters
The HRTO has recently issued two interim orders in the education sector of particular note because the interim orders require the implementation of measures similar or identical to the final measures sought by the applicants. The first case required the...
( Disponible en anglais seulement )
Access Denied to Parent without Legal Rights
The Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario (“IPC”) recently resolved an issue of access to school records that has concerned school boards for years. Do parents who have neither custody nor access of their child have rights to review their...
( Disponible en anglais seulement )
Appropriate for Board to Rely on Offences Committed Twenty Years Earlier
The Grievor, a bus driver/custodian, pleaded guilty to sexual offences involving minors some twenty years earlier and was convicted. The events giving rise to the conviction occurred prior to the Grievor commencing employment with the school board. One of the...
( Disponible en anglais seulement )
Advising ETFO Members Not To Participate in Extra-Curricular Activities Constitutes A Strike
On Thursday, April 11, 2013 the Ontario Labour Relations Board (“OLRB”) released its much anticipated decision with respect to the application by the Upper Canada District School Board and Trillium Lakelands District School Board (the “school boards”) alleging that the...
( Disponible en anglais seulement )
Early Bell Ringing Did Not Result in Increased Instruction Time
The school bells at twelve Ottawa area elementary schools were sounding between three and ten minutes prior to the published start times of the schools. The Union filed a grievance alleging a violation of the instructional minutes maximum enshrined in...
( Disponible en anglais seulement )
Psychological Health and Safety
The Canadian Standards Association (CSA) in partnership with several other organizations recently released a standard for psychological health and safety in the workplace. In recent years, law makers have recognized the need to improve psychological health. For example, Bill 168...
( Disponible en anglais seulement )
Reasonableness “Invited”, but not “Required” under terms of Collective Agreement
The Ontario Divisional Court just released its decision in Grand Erie District School Board v. Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation, District 23 in which it dismissed an application for judicial review of an arbitrator’s finding that the duty of a...
( Disponible en anglais seulement )
No Discrimination Based on Disability or Family Status
The Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario recently decided a case regarding discrimination based on disability and family status. Two cases; one brought on behalf of a student, by the student’s father, and the other case brought by the student’s mother...
