Canada Labour Code (R.S.C., 1985, c. L-2)

Act current to 2013-04-29 and last amended on 2013-01-01. Previous Versions

Marginal note:Applicable provisions

225. Sections 58 and 66 apply, with such modifications as the circumstances require, in respect of a decision of an arbitrator under section 224 as though it were a decision referred to in those sections.

  • 1980-81-82-83, c. 89, s. 32.
Marginal note:Implementation of adjustment program

226. On completion of the development of an adjustment program, the employer shall implement the program and the joint planning committee and any trade union or redundant employees who appointed the members of the committee shall cooperate with and assist the employer in implementing the program.

  • 1980-81-82-83, c. 89, s. 32.
Marginal note:Regulations

227. The Governor in Council may make regulations for carrying out the purposes and provisions of this Division and, without restricting the generality of the foregoing, may make regulations

  • (a) exempting employers from the application of this Division in respect of the termination of employment of employees employed on a seasonal or irregular basis;

  • (b) requiring employers employing employees in a particular occupational classification, in a particular industry or in an industrial establishment that is within an area or region described in the regulations, to comply with the provisions of this Division in respect of terminations of employment of groups of employees numbering less than fifty but greater than a number prescribed in the regulations;

  • (c) prescribing information to be set out in a notice referred to in subsection 212(1); and

  • (d) prescribing circumstances in which a lay-off of an employee shall not be deemed to be a termination of his employment by his employer.

  • R.S., c. 17(2nd Supp.), s. 16.
Marginal note:Waiver of application of Division

228. On the submission of any person, the Minister may, by order and subject to any terms or conditions specified in the order, waive the application of this Division, or any provision thereof, in respect of any industrial establishment or of any class of employees therein specified in the order if it is shown to the satisfaction of the Minister that the application of this Division, or any provision thereof, as the case may be, in respect of any industrial establishment

  • (a) would be or is unduly prejudicial to the interests of the employees therein or to any class of employees therein;

  • (b) would be or is unduly prejudicial to the interests of the employer of those employees;

  • (c) would be or is seriously detrimental to the operation of the industrial establishment; or

  • (d) is not necessary, because measures for the assistance of redundant employees at that establishment that are substantially the same or to the same effect as the measures established by this Division or that provision, as the case may be, have been established by collective agreement or otherwise.

  • R.S., c. 17(2nd Supp.), s. 16;
  • 1980-81-82-83, c. 89, s. 33.