Interest arbitration, or third-party arbitration, is an essential element of the Canadian industrial relations system, with considerable impact on the public interest, particularly in relation to public-sector industries. As an instrument of labour relations policy, interest arbitration has...

Immigration and labor law can be uncomfortable bedfellows. The Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) of requires employers on pain of sanctions to check employees' work papers. At the same time, labor and employment laws give workers the right to be free from intimidation and retaliation...

Implementation of workplace policies--whether through enforcement of laws or administration of programs--raises the question of the interaction between institutions created to carry out laws and the activities of workplace based agents that directly (e.g. unions) or indirectly (e.g. insurance...