By: Jennifer Koshan PDF Version: Another Workplace Death Illustrates the Need for More Enhanced Protections for Farm Workers Matter Commented On: Report to the Minister of Justice and Solicitor General of a Public Fatality Inquiry into the Death of Stephen Murray Gibson On June 29, 2017 the Alberta government released the report of Judge Anne Brown […]
By: Jennifer Koshan PDF Version: Protection for the Rights of Farm Workers Finally Proposed in Alberta Legislation Commented On: Bill 6, Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Workers Act On November 17, 2015 the Minister of Jobs, Skills, Training and Labour Lori Sigurdson introduced Bill 6 in the Alberta Legislature. She described the Enhanced Protection […]
By: Jennifer Koshan PDF Version: The Supreme Court’s New Constitutional Decisions and the Rights of Farm Workers in Alberta Cases Commented On: Mounted Police Association of Ontario v Canada (Attorney General), 2015 SCC 1 (CanLII); Meredith v Canada (Attorney General), 2015 SCC 2 (CanLII); Saskatchewan Federation of Labour v Saskatchewan, 2015 SCC 4 (CanLII); Carter […]
By: Brynna Takasugi, Delna Contractor, and Paul Kennett PDF Version: The Statutory Exclusion of Farm Workers from the Alberta Labour Relations Code Legislation Commented On: Labour Relations Code, RSA 2000, c L-1 Editor’s Note This is the second in the series of four posts written by students in Law 696: Constitutional Clinical in the winter […]
By: Jennifer Koshan PDF Version: Bill 26 and the Rights of Farm and Ranch Workers in Alberta Bill Commented On: Bill 26, Farm Freedom and Safety Act, 2019 (First Session, 30th Legislature) As promised in its election platform, the UCP government has taken steps to repeal parts of Bill 6, the Enhanced Protection for Farm […]
