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Help for laid-off workers and response to job loss (download PDF)
Facing Layoffs? Downsizing? Expecting a closure or merger? When your workplace is changing, unions must act quickly and effectively. Together with the affiliates and the CLC, the OFL has developed materials to help.
Fact Sheets (English) (French)
Training Manual
Sexual Harassment in the Workplace (download PDF)
BLACK HISTORY MONTH - FEBRUARY 2010 (download PDF)
Next month’s budget must be ‘good jobs’ budget:submission to Standing Committee on Finance and Economic Affairs (download PDF)
OFL VIDEO RELEASED DECEMBER 2009 Climb the Hill: Sexual Harassment in the Workplace (download PDF)
APPRENTICESHIP: Fact Sheets (download PDF)
Apprentissage: Feuillets d’infos (download PDF)
Apprenticeship & Trades: Bill 183 submission, September 2009 (download PDF) (read online)
We are concerned that the structures envisioned by Bill 183 as drafted will be top-heavy and top-down; unaccountable; lacking a sufficient degree of expertise in the skilled trades; immediately mired in jurisdictional disputes; and bogged down in bureaucracy.
Occupational Exposure Limits: OFL’s 2009 submission to Ministry of Labour (download PDF)
We support the MOL's proposed reductions to the substances under review for 2009. Two substances are of particular concern for us. These are beryllium and sulphur dioxide.
Submission to The Ministry of Labour (download PDF) (read online)
Consultation on Foreign and Resident Employment Recruitment in Ontario by the Ontario Federation of Labour and the Canadian Labour Congress
August 21, 2009
Presentation to The Standing Committee on The Legislative Assembly on Bill 139, an Act to Amend the Employment Standards Act, 2000 in relation to Temporary Help Agencies (download PDF)
Together it Works (download PDF)
An Economic Plan that Works for Everyone
Submission to The Ministry of Finance (download PDF)
Responding to the Report of the Expert Commission on Pensions
OFL Presentation to The Standing Committee on Government Agencies of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario (download PDF) (read online)
Examining the Operation of the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario
February, 2009
Increasing Access to Unionization, Poverty Reduction and Women’s Equality (download PDF)
To be effective, Ontario’s poverty reduction strategy must address labour market poverty and women’s inequality.
OFL Submission to The Standing Committee on Finance and Economic Affairs (download PDF)
Pre-Budget Consultations
December 11, 2008
Speaking Notes for Oral Presentation to The Standing committee on Finance and Economic Affairs (download PDF) (read online)
Pre-Budget Consultations by Irene Harris, Secretary-Treasurer, Ontario Federation of Labour
December 11, 2008
Why Do I need a Union? (download PDF)
Canada’s Workers at Risk: Precarious Employment (download PDF)
Unions: Working Towards Women-Friendly Workplaces (download PDF)
Union Advantage by the Numbers (download PDF)
Want the Straight goods on Unions? Check the Facts: Uncovering Union Myths (download PDF)
Women and Unions: The Benefits (Hint: It’s not just wages!) (download PDF)
CREATING ONTARIO’S TOXICS REDUCTION STRATEGY (download PDF)
OFL Submission to the Ministry of the Environment
October 2008
Consultation paper on Workplace Violence and Prevention - OFL Submission to the Ministry of Labour - October 2008 (download PDF)
This is an issue that has been a priority for the OFL and its affiliates for many years. Labour has written and raised the issue with every Minister of Labour for a decade or more. We have called upon them to introduce legislation. We have raised concerns over the Ministry interpretation that while workplace violence is a hazard covered under the Occupational Health and Safety Act that employers must address; it is not a condition of the workplace that allows workers to exercise their right to refuse. The MOL would treat any refusals as complaints. Four years ago, we told the Ministry that this was not only wrong but unethical and immoral.
OFL Submission to the Ministry of Labour - Occupational Exposure Limits September 2008 (download PDF)
If we are to prevent future occupational disease, we must aim now, to reduce the use of existing toxic substances or processes and provide the framework for development of new, non-toxic substances and processes in production.
OFL Presentation to The Standing Committee on Government Agencies (download PDF)
Infrastructure Ontario
Agency Review
September 17, 2008
Infrastructure Ontario has responsibility for the Province’s program of P3 investments in public infrastructure.
Open letter on Canadian Federal Government’s June 11th, 2008 Apology to First Nations, Métis and Inuit on residential schools by Tim Brown, Ontario Federation of Labour Vice-President representing Aboriginal Persons (download PDF) (read online)
Accommodating Workers With Mental Health Issues (French) (download PDF)
Presentation to OFL Conference
Accommodation: Disabilities Rights and Union Responsibility
June 2008
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The Duty to Accommodate in the Canadian Workplace: Leading Principles and Recent Cases (download PDF)
By Michael Lynk, Faculty of Law, The University of Western Ontario
92 pages
