Canadian labour and employment law for the U.S. practitioner

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"The Third Edition of this treatise from BNA Books offers a concise explanation of Canada’s workplace laws from a U.S. perspective and highlights the key distinctions between Canadian and U.S. labour and employment law. U.S. companies with Canadian subsidiaries in particular will find this treatise extremely helpful in navigating the risks and enjoying the opportunities of operating in Canada. This edition also provides incredibly helpful summaries of Canadian Supreme Court decisions relating to labour and employment law and reviews developments in the law involving data management, surveillance, workplace harassment, and bullying."--Publisher's website. "The purpose of Canadian Labour and Employment Law for the U.S.Practitioner is to provide the U.S. reader with a comparative insight into Canada’s laws of the workplace. The book explains Canada’s labour and employment laws from a U.S. point of reference highlighting the distinctions in Canada’s laws of the workplace. The goal is to provide U.S. attorneys and human resource practitioners with information to assist in both avoiding the liabilities and taking advantage of the opportunities associated with doing business in Canada. This new edition is not intended to be encyclopedic but rather takes a generalized approach to Canadian labour and employment law. The decisions and statutory amendments reviewed in this supplement have been selected for the purpose of explaining basic themes in Canadian labour and employment law. As in the second edition, Ontario, Canada’s largest province in terms of population and size of economy, generally serves as the representative jurisdiction for the purpose of illustrating principles of Canadian law. Significant differences in the laws of the provinces are addressed in the text itself and in comparative charts found in appendices to the supplement. There have been important developments in Canadian labour and employment law since the release of the last edition, including increased recognition of collective bargaining as a constitutional right; elaboration of privacy rights;developments in the law of compensating dismissed employees; and the growing influence of global norms and international events on our law. These major trends are reviewed in this edition together with relevant changes in the case law and statute law across Canada."--Preface.