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Re Int'l Moulders Union And Jamaica Mfg (Canada) Ltd, Innis Christie, D Wren, S H. Hartt

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The facts essential to the settlement of this grievance do not appear to be in dispute. Employees of the company are paid an hourly base rate, as set out in the schedule to the collective agreement, plus incentive pay. The incentive system operates. wholly outside the agreement except for references in art. 10 (c), which is quoted below, and upon which this grievance is based. There are several indirect references to the incentive scheme in the "Wage Schedule and Classifications" appended to the agreement. The references in the schedule do no more than testify to the existence of the incentive …

Re United Cork Linoleum & Plastic Workers, Local 380, And Union Carbide Canada Ltd, Innis Christie, G Brooks, C W. Vanwinsen

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Employee Grievance claiming improper application of seniority provisions.

The issues in this case are therefore:

Where the company has the right under the collective agreement to deny promotion to the grievor, who is the senior man, on the ground that he does not satisfy educational qualifications unilaterally prescribed by the company.

If the company is successful in issue, can it be said that the grievor does not in fact have the qualifications prescribed by the company in this case.

The Worker And The Law, Innis Christie

Innis Christie Collection

Professor Wedderburn's addition to the Pelican Law Series is, in keeping with the best of that series, an excellent introduction to the industrial law of the United Kingdom. Like its predecessors this book is written "both for the general reader and for the student of our social and legal system". However, general readers will have to be rather sophisticated in the law to stay with Professor Wedderburn from "The Foundations of Labour Law", through five chapters on the "law of industrial peace" and four on the "law of industrial conflict", to his conclusion.