Collective Bargaining and Part-Time Work in Ontario

Wendy Weeks
1978 Relations Industrielles - Industrial Relations  
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more » ... it.org/fr/usagers/politique-dutilisation/ This paper examines the situation of part time workers in Ontario and the attitude the Ontario Labour Relations Board has developed towards the m. Ontario Labour Relations practice has considered part time workers to be those employed for less than 24 hours a week. Part time workers are usually linked with summer student employées in collective agreements, and it is the Ontario practice to certify separate agreements for part time and full time workers. Unionised part timers are a small minority. Part time workers are mentioned in only one in five Ontario agreements and 1.5% of ail contracts are for part time workers only. l Part timers are difficult to organise, hâve lower priority than full time workers in the view of unions, and the business practice of keeping long lists of «call-in» part time staff exacerbâtes the problem. However, I suggest that the Ontario Board practice encourages, albeit unintentionally, the limited unionisation of part time workers and reinforces their peripheral employment status.
doi:10.7202/028845ar fatcat:exii4lyjzbb2nmo36p2ylazzwe