Exam 7: The Collective Agreement

Collective agreements must comply with human rights, employment standards, and labour relations legislation.

Super-seniority is a collective agreement term providing that union officers cannot be laid off.

A collective agreement may contain a provision relating to the arbitration of disputes that flow from the administration of the agreement.

A collective agreement term that requires all employees who voluntarily join the union to retain their union membership is known as a union shop.

Explain the provisions of labour relations legislation in your province regarding the deduction of union dues and union membership in a collective agreement.

Explain the nature of two mandatory terms in a collective agreement and three other terms that are commonly found in a collective agreement.

Distinguish between a relative ability and a sufficient ability seniority provision in a collective agreement.Include the preferences of unions and employers.

Federally regulated employees who have been employed for at least three months are entitled to:

Employment standards legislation requires collective agreements to contain provisions for paid bereavement leave.

Overtime provisions in the collective agreement could include a requirement that the overtime be equally distributed among employees.

Super-seniority is a provision in the collective agreement providing that:

Which of the following terms is the least likely to be included as part of the collective agreement:

Explain the meaning and importance of contracting out.Describe the relevant labour law relating to this issue and its implications for unions and employers negotiating a collective agreement.

A collective agreement could contain a sunset clause that requires the employer to impose any discipline within a specified time limit.

Recently the trend has been for collective agreements to have longer terms.

A provision in a collective agreement that requires newly hired employees to become union members within a specified time is known as:

The collective agreement could provide that seniority is calculated in different ways for different applications of seniority.

The recall period in a collective agreement refers to:

Collective agreements commonly provide that seniority is lost:

All employees in the bargaining unit, both union members and those who are not union members, are covered by the terms of the collective agreement.