Download or read book Time to Tweak Or Re boot Assessing the Interest Arbitration Process in Canadian Industrial Relations written by and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moreover, the share of arbitrated to the stakeholders in the industrial relations system, governments should support a review of settlements and the percentage of employees the competencies and skills that mediators and affected by arbitration in Ontario over the 2001-17 interest arbitrators need, with a view to setting period are quite higher in the (broader) public competency standards and devel [...] In the private sector, the It is instructive to examine the experience of costs of a strike are primarily borne by the parties Ontario, the Canadian jurisdiction with the largest to the dispute. [...] Even the threat of a strike might warrant the prohibition of strikes in the public 6 sector?2 With regard to the first concern, there are questions as to the severity of harm that is Table 1: Proportion of Settlements Determined inflicted on the public through public-sector by Interest Arbitration, and Employees Covered, strikes, particularly depending on the type of in Ontario, 2001-2017, by Sect [...] In the private sector, the two the process is perceived to be either biased in favour of one side or unable to produce suitable main stakeholders are the employer and the union, outcomes (Adell, Grant, and Ponak 2001; and arbitration is required to ensure the interests Rose 2015). [...] The arbitration.16 The expectation is that the uncertainty neutral chair of the board is selected by mutual surrounding the outcome of arbitration, if agreement of the parties, or by the minister of mediation fails, will facilitate the mediation stage labour or the Labour Relations Board in the event of this process.