Thursday, November 5, 2009
EFCA and Canada
This Forbes.com piece does a good job of pointing out the differences between Canadian labor laws and ours. Canada's federal labor law applies to federal employees and certain national industries (i.e. banking) - about 10% of the workforce. Canada leaves the regulation of the other 90% to her provincial governments. In 1975, all of them used something like the original EFCA's card check provisions, but today 6 of the Canada's 10 provinces provide for secret ballot elections. We have previously written about Canadian labor law here and here.