Research Guides: Organizational Behaviour & Human Resources: Legal Sources

Library Databases

Below is a list of library databases that are recommended for finding legal information related to labour, employment, and occupational health and safety.

EmploymentSource
- An extensive collection of authored treaties by Canada's foremost employment and occupation health & safety law experts.
- Permitted Uses
LabourSource
- Includes commentaries, collective bargaining materials and summaries, case law, and legislation pertaining to labour in Canada.
- Permitted Uses
- Includes access to Labour Arbitration Cases (1948 - ), Canadian Labour Arbitration Summaries (1986 -), complete coverage of labour-related court decisions published in Carswell and Canada Law Book law reports, unreported court decisions (1977 - ), labour-related board decisions from across Canada, labour and employment legislation from all jurisdictions in Canada, and commentary from Canadian Labour Arbitration, Fourth Edition (Brown & Beatty), Canadian Labour Law, Second Edition (Adams), Willis & Winkler on Leading Labour Cases, Collective Bargaining & Agreement (Corry), Collective Agreement Handbook, Third Edition (Saxe & McLean)
- Coverage: 1982 - Present
Nexis Uni
- International news, business, and legal sources
- Includes Company Dossier module for detailed company information and Shepard's Citations for federal and state court cases back to 1789
- Permitted Uses

Key Websites

Below is a list of legal websites that are key for finding legislation, legal cases, and commentary.

CanLii
- A non-profit organization managed by the Federation of Law Societies of Canada to make Canadian law accessible for free on the Internet.
- Terms of Use from Publisher Site

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.