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 term of 2014 (for the first post in this series see here). This post focuses on the exclusion of farm workers from Alberta’s Labour Relations Code, RSA 2000, c L-1, (LRC), and is being published to coincide with May Day and International Workers’ Day (May 1), as it concerns the inability of farm workers to unionize and collectively protect their interests. The following is a summary of the students’ primary arguments regarding the unconstitutionality of the LRC’s exclusion of farm workers.