Legal Decisions

An arbitrator determined that under the applicable collective agreement stagehands called in for an opera changeover who stayed (after a

A group of transportation employees performed work starting at 2:00am on the sixth day and the employer refused to pay

An arbitrator interpreted a houseperson’s guarantee of hours in a stagehand collective agreement to require the employer to provide the

The employer grieved that the local had improperly manipulated the hiring hall mechanism in order to generate premium pay for

The issue raised by the grievance was whether the employer violated the collective agreement by failing to pay the double

Appeal of a lower court decision which held that the arbitrator’s decision respecting holiday was patently unreasonable.  The Court upheld

The grievance raised two main issues: (i) whether technicians working at the IMAX theatres were “projectionists” and thus covered by

The local grieved that employees should have received holiday pay for Christmas, Boxing Day, and New Year’s during a temporary

Grievance over whether employees of the local received proper payment of wages with respect to the production of Beauty and

The issue raised by the grievance was whether the employer violated the collective agreement by failing to pay the double