Employer Policies & Labour Law
9:30 AM - 4:00 PM PST Maritime Labour Centre 111 Victoria Drive Vancouver, BC V5L 4C4
IN PERSON – at the Maritime Labour Centre
This course will lay the foundation for your understanding of employer policies and their relationship to labour law. We will look at when employer policies are permitted and when they are not, when policies should be challenged, and what legal tests a policy will need to pass in order to hold up in arbitration. We will learn the “KVP test”, utilized by arbitrators and look at more recent developments in case law.
Facilitator: Melissa VanderHouwen, BCGEU
Melissa VanderHouwen (she/her) is Associate General Counsel at the BC General Employees’ Union. She has spent over a decade practicing union-side labour law, advocating for unions on a wide variety of labour matters including discipline and discharge, collective agreement interpretation, policy grievances, organizing efforts, and unfair labour practice disputes. She has appeared before the BC Supreme Court and Court of Appeal, the BC Human Rights tribunal, the Canadian Humans Rights Commission, the BC Labour Relations Board, and in the federal and provincial grievance arbitrations.