Morning Recess Education Law Newsletter

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April 2013

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Advising ETFO Members Not To Participate in Extra-Curricular Activities Constitutes A Strike

Nadya Tymochenko

On Thursday, April 11, 2013 the Ontario Labour Relations Board (“OLRB”) released its much anticipated decision with respect to the application by the Upper Canada District School Board and Trillium Lakelands District School Board (the “school boards”) alleging that the...

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Early Bell Ringing Did Not Result in Increased Instruction Time

Dirk L. Van de Kamer

The school bells at twelve Ottawa area elementary schools were sounding between three and ten minutes prior to the published start times of the schools. The Union filed a grievance alleging a violation of the instructional minutes maximum enshrined in...

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Appropriate for Board to Rely on Offences Committed Twenty Years Earlier

Dirk L. Van de Kamer

The Grievor, a bus driver/custodian, pleaded guilty to sexual offences involving minors some twenty years earlier and was convicted. The events giving rise to the conviction occurred prior to the Grievor commencing employment with the school board. One of the...

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