Research Guides: Organizational Behaviour & Human Resources: Employment & Labour Law Sources

Employment and Labour Law: Cases and Decisions

EmploymentSource
- An extensive collection of authored treaties by Canada's foremost employment and occupation health & safety law experts.
- Permitted Uses
LabourSource
LawSource
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Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario Decisions (via CanLII)
Contains the full text of HRTO decisions from 2000 to the present.
Ontario Labour Arbitration Awards (via CanLii)
Contains the fulltext of OLAA decisions from 2004 to the present
Ontario Labour Relations Board decisions (via CanLii)
Contains the fulltext of OLRB decisions from 2000 to the present.

Negotiating teams may wish to examine collective agreements from other locals of the same union, or for unions in similar industries.
Consult the following sources to view current and historical collective agreements, as well as to read about current trends and highlights from recent negotiations.

Collective Agreements e-Library Portal (Ontario Ministry of Labour)
Includes public and private sector collective agreements in Ontario. Search options include: by employer, by union, by location, or by industry. You can also search across all collective agreements by keyword.
Negotech Database (Government of Canada Labour Program)
Contains the full text of current and historical collective agreements from across Canada. It is searchable by a variety of criteria (employer name, union name, jurisdiction, industry, occupation,etc.) as well as by topic (keywords or phrases) to help locate specific contract language.

LabourSource
The LabourSource Library database includes a collection of over 6,400 editorially written summaries of collective agreements.

Collective Bargaining Ontario: Interactive Analytics (Ontario Ministry of Labour)
An interactive data hub with reports on:
- Ontario Collective Bargaining Highlights
- Ontario Collective Bargaining Expires

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Collective Bargaining Information (Government of Canada Labour Program)
- Tracks key negotiations in Federal and Provincial Jurisdictions.
- Provides current data on ratified settlements, wage settlements, and work stoppages

Conference Board of Canada e-Library
- Industrial Relations Outlook is an annual comprehensive overview of issues influencing labour relations in Canada for unions, management, and policy makers.
- Compensation Planning Outlook reports annually on the results of a survey of 411 organizations and identifies human resource management and collective bargaining issues.