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| 6 May 2010 • International Seminar Regulating Decent Work for Domestic Workers On March 29th 2010, an international seminar on decent work for domestic workers took place at McGill University. CRIMT (which co-organized the event with the LLDRL) is happy to announce the launch of a dedicated Website which features the summary and audio recording of all seminar presentations. The installation of Quicktime Player is required to listen to the audio clips. |
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16-18 June 2010 • International Conference
Employee Representation in the New World of Work: The Dynamics of Rights, Voice, Performance and Power 47th CIRA Meeting/International CRIMT Conference Université Laval, Quebec, Canada Registration is now open! - Program and details at www.crimt.org/cira-crimt2010.html. The era of globalization and new information technologies has brought about significant changes in workplace configuration, workforce composition and expectations, and in the management of human resources as firms seek competitive advantage in an increasingly competitive environment. These changes pose considerable challenges to the traditional notions of employee representation, the core tenets of which were inspired in Canada under the Wagner Act exactly 75 years ago. The nature of these challenges will be fully explored and debated at an international conference to be held from 16th to 18th June 2010 at Laval University in Quebec City. The conference is a special collaboration between the Interuniversity Research Centre on Globalization and Work (CRIMT) and the Canadian Industrial Relations Association (CIRA-ACRI) and will focus on a number of key issues relating to employee representation in the new world of work, including: the relevance in today’s workplace of the founding principles of different representative systems; how different types of employee representation regimes deal with issues facing the contemporary worker; the emerging models and actors for employee rights and representation; the kinds of public policy, actors, strategies, capabilities and research that are necessary to rethink employee representation in the contemporary workplace. The conference is highly international in scope, attracting over 300 participants from more than thirty countries. Participants, who will be involved in four plenary sessions and more than 60 workshops, include internationally renowned specialist researchers and leading practitioners in the area of work and employment. As a special event, the conference will host a lecture featuring the Honourable Mr. Justice Louis LeBel of the Supreme Court of Canada. This is a bilingual conference, with simultaneous translation services in French and English available for multiple streams of the conference. |
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| 29 October 2009 • CRIMT Seminar Les relations industrielles en Europe Centro-Orientale: fin ou extension du modèle social européen ? Guglielmo MEARDI Warwick Business School University of Warwick Banque Scotia Room, at 12:15 HEC Montréal 3000 chemin de la Côte-Sainte-Catherine Given its lack of own traditions in legitimate industrial relations structures, and its dependence on foreign direct investment, Central Eastern Europe has emerged as a crucial testing bed and battlefield for change in European industrial relations, whether through multinational companies ‘coercive comparisons’ and ‘best practice’ dissemination, or through political reforms. The EU accession of 100m citizens with different labour and social standards modifies the industrial relations balance for the whole of the EU and has raised questions on the enduring suitability of the so-called ‘European social model’, the new member states having the potential of being ‘Trojan horses’ for the ‘Americanisation’ of European industrial relations. The share of inhabitants from low-wage countries is now the same for EU and NAFTA, and the wage ratio between Romania and Germany is the same as between Mexico and USA. The presentation (in macaroni French) will outline the main points of an in-progress book (Where Workers Vote with Their Feet), which elaborates ideas first presented in some earlier articles, based on a decade of fieldwork in Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovenia. It will first describe the emergence of a new Central Eastern European ‘model’ of industrial relations, combining relatively high degrees of state regulation with disorganized industrial relations, and then discussed the implications of EU accession, in terms of regulations, ‘social dumping’, transnational effects and consequences for the EU as a whole. It will conclude with an argument as to whether a system so far based on marketisation and employee ‘exit’ logic (migration, absenteeism, organisational disloyalty) can develop new forms of employee ‘voice’. Open to all. Bring your lunch. |
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| 5 November 2009 • CRIMT Seminar Constitutionalizing Labour Rights in Canada and Beyond Judy FUDGE Faculty of Law University of Victoria Salon des professeurs (A-3464), at 12:15 Law Faculty, Pavillon Maximilien-Caron Université de Montréal 3101, chemin de la tour In 2007, in Health Services and Support – Facilities Subsector Bargaining Association v. British Columbia, the Supreme Court of Canada expressly overruled twenty years of jurisprudence that interpreted the freedom of association as excluding collective bargaining. In 2008, in Demir and Baykara v Turkey, the European Court of Human Rights followed suit and overruled its earlier decisions on the matter to hold that the right to freedom of association in the European Convention on Human Rights includes collective bargaining. The recent successes before courts have led some observers to suggest that it may now be a propitious time for a co-ordinated and proactive litigation strategy to vindicate labour’s collective rights. In this presentation, I consider what gave rise to these remarkable decisions and what they portend for the role of the courts in labour relations in Canada and beyond. Open to all. Bring your lunch. |
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Struggles on the Frontier of Control over Professional Identity: Leading Cases from Canada Larry HAIVEN Professor Management Saint Mary's University Poster  Click on the link below to see the video recording off this seminar. Please note that clips appear in the order of presentation. Clip : Larry Haiven's conference Support : PowerPoint presentation Viewing the video clips requires a broadband Internet connexion (DSL, Cable-Modem or LAN) and the QuickTime Player  installed (for Windows XP or Vista users, the player can be downloaded for free at www.apple.com/quicktime/download/). Note: for faster viewing, tick the 'Play movies automatically' option in your QuickTime preference panel. |
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| 18 September 2009 • Book Vocational Training: International Perspectives Gerhard BOSCH Université de Duisburg-Essen et Institut Arbeit und Qualifikation - IAQ, Allemagne Jean CHAREST Université de Montréal Routledge, 2009 The last decade has given rise to a strong public discourse in most highly industrialized economies about the importance of a skilled workforce as a key response to the competitive dynamic fostered by economic globalisation. The challenge for different training regimes is twofold: attracting young people into the vocational training system while continuing to train workers already in employment. Yet, on the whole, most countries and their training systems have failed to reach those goals. How can we explain this contradiction? Why is vocational training seen to be an "old" institution? Why does vocational training not seem to be easily adapted to the realities of the 21st century? This book seeks to respond to these important questions. It does so through an in-depth comparative analysis of the vocational training systems in ten different countries: Australia, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Korea, Mexico, Morocco, the United Kingdom and the USA. |
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| 17 August 2009 • Call for papers Special Issue of the Canadian Journal of Law and Society (CJLS) on Legal Pluralism as a Paradigm for Legal Science. Around the Works of Jean-Guy Belley Since his doctoral thesis completed in Paris (1977) under the supervision of Jean Carbonnier, first as a Professor of contract law and legal sociology at the Faculty of Law of Université Laval (Québec), then as William C. Macdonald Chair at McGill Law Faculty, Professor Jean-Guy Belley has developed a rigorous approach of legal pluralism as a fundamental paradigm for legal science. This highly learned and original appropriation of legal pluralism was first conceived of in the field of sociology of law and contract law, then extended to the vast domain of Jurisprudence, a legal pluralistic approach of law being thought of as necessary now for a proper understanding of legal norms and rulings. These efforts culminated, as regards legal sociology, in the publishing of the book Le contrat entre droit, économie et société [The Contract between Law, Economy and Society]. As regards Jurisprudence, a major contribution is certainly the 2002 paper on « Le pluralisme juridique comme doctrine de la science du droit » [Legal Pluralism as a Doctrine of Legal Science]. An academic path as rich as Jean-Guy Belley’s one, his brilliant and critical dialogue with authors as important as Georges Gurvitch, Ian MacNeil, Eugen Ehrlich, Max Weber and now Gunther Teubner, plainly justify the Canadian Journal of Law and Society/Revue canadienne Droit et Société publishing a special issue on this important thinker. Moreover, a lesser degree of knowledge about Belley’s work in the English-speaking world when compared with its impact in the Francophonie, as well as its crucial meaning for critical thinking about legal pluralism, render the publishing of such an issue of the outmost importance in our view. Two kinds of papers are invited here and will be equally considered: - Studies dealing centrally with Jean-Guy Belley’s thought about legal pluralism; - Studies dealing more generally with the legal pluralistic paradigm, but making some significant links with Jean-Guy Belley’s ideas. Guest Editors: Michel Coutu Full Professor School of Industrial Relations Université de Montréal Pierre Guibentif Professor of sociology Coordinator of CR3 (AISLF) ISCTE – Instituto Superior de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa Lisbon PAPERS DEADLINE : May 1st 2010 Call for papers  With the support of the Interuniversity Research Centre on Globalisation and Work (CRIMT), McGill Law Faculty, Canadian Law and Society Association(CLSA), SSHRC and CR3 (Sociologie du droit) of the Association internationale des sociologues de langue française (AISLF). |
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| 21 August 2009 • Outreach Seminar The future of trade unions 12.30 pm - 2.00 pm (Light refreshments available) Victorian Trades Hall New Council Chamber (Corner Victoria & Lygon Streets, Carlton South) Australia Four internationally renowned academics share their thoughts about the future of trade unions. This seminar will ask two questions: What problems do unions face in an era of global change and development? What can unions do to address these problems? The presenters come from Canada, South Africa and Australia. They have a long experience working with unions and presenting on the challenges facing unions. Professor Gregor Murray - CRIMT & University of Montreal, Canada Professor David Peetz - CRIMT & Griffith University, Australia Professor Charlotte Yates - CRIMT & McMaster University, Canada Professor Eddie Webster - Professor Emeritus, University of Witswaterand, South Africa The presentations will be commented on by: Michelle Bissett (ACTU) Brian Boyd (VTHC). This event is supported by RMIT University, CRIMT, and the Victorian Trades Hall Council. |
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| 20 May 2009 • Call for papers Special Issue of the Canadian Journal of Women and the Law (CJWL) on Decent Work for Domestic Workers More than forty years after recognizing the urgency to address domestic workers’ employment conditions, the International Labour Organization (ILO) is now moving forward to adopt an international treaty (convention) on decent work for domestic workers by 2011. Yet despite an abundance of crucial literature on the structural inequality faced by domestic workers, there is a dearth of scholarly reflection on the role of law. The special issue seeks to contribute to the existing literature by reflecting on the facets of the care economy and the governance of paid work in the home. Some of the thematic concerns include intersectionality and social location (race, caste, nationality, social status) in the regulation of domestic work; legal pluralism and the law of the home workplace; the regulatory continuity between valuing unpaid care work and equitably remuneration of care work in the home; social dialogue and citizenship and work as vehicles to promote domestic workers’ agency; and lessons from the regulation of domestic work for regulating the informal economy. The special issue also has a three-fold spatial scope. First, it seeks to contribute to the important scholarship already underway on legal regulation in the Canadian context. Second, it seeks to offer insights from comparative law, by considering regulatory challenges and innovations in other jurisdictions including but not limited to Australia, Brazil, China (Hong Kong), France, Ghana, India, Ireland, Italy, Lebanon, Norway, the Philippines, South Africa, the United Kingdom and Uruguay. Third, it seeks to offer reflections on the value-added of international regulation, including insights into the future of the ILO’s focus on decent work for all as a basis for standard setting at the international level. In light of the theme, we encourage interdisciplinary scholarship and contributions adopting diverse methodological approaches. Completed papers must be submitted by 30 September 2009. We anticipate that submissions will be approximately 8 000 words, but will consider contributions that are longer or shorter. Papers will be submitted to independent peer reviewers for publication consideration in volume 22:2 of the CJWL. Contributions in French or English are encouraged. Questions are happily taken and early expressions of interest welcomed. Adelle Blackett CRIMT Coresearcher William Dawson Scholar Faculty of Law, McGill University, 3644 Peel Street, Montreal, Quebec H3A 1W9 E-mail: adelle.blackett@mcgill.ca Telephone: 514-398-5096 Skype: adelle40 |
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25-26 March 2009 • Outreach Seminar
Crisis in the Manufacturing Sector: The Canadian Experience in North American Perspective HEC Montréal - Main Building 3000 chemin de la Côte-Sainte-Catherine IBM Amphitheatre A great opportunity for actors and la bour markets experts to assess the situation of the manufacturing sector crisis in Canada and north america. The Inter-University Research Centre on Globalization and Work (CRIMT) is organizing an outreach seminar on the theme: Crisis in the Manufacturing Sector: The Canadian Experience in North American Perspective. The seminar will bring together academics and labour market partners to discuss the current situation and the challenges imposed by the crisis in the manufacturing sector in Canada, the United States, and Mexico. In addition to discussing the causes and major trends, the seminar will tackle the question of restructuring processes and the impacts on labour relations in key segments of the manufacturing sector such as the auto, aerospace, pulp and paper, and steel industries. The seminar, to be conducted in simultaneous translation, will take place in Montreal on Wednesday, March 25th, from 7 pm to 9h30 pm and Thursday, March 26th, from 9 am to 5 pm. Please find enclosed information about the seminar and registration details. For more details, please contact : Patrice JALETTE, Université de Montréal Étienne CANTIN, Université Laval Robert HICKEY, Queen's University Program Leaflet & Registration |
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| 3-4 April 2009 • International Seminar Justice and Globalization in Labour Law Series De l’intervention judiciaire aux réglements alternatifs des conflits University Paris I André Tunc Institute 4 rue Valette, Paris, France Seminar organized by the European University Institute, the Interuniversity Research Centre on Globalization and Work (CRIMT) and the University Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne. Programme (French) |
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| 8-10 May 2009 • Project Meeting MAGOG IV 1st CRIMT SSHRC-MCRI II Project Conference Manoir des sables, Magog-Orford Canada |
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| 6 October 2009 • CRIMT Seminar Struggles on the Frontier of Control over Professional Identity: Leading Cases from Canada Larry HAIVEN Associate Professor Management Sobey School of Business Saint Mary’s University |
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| 10 March 2009 • International Seminar Ethics and the Social Regulation of the Firm Ethics and the Social Regulation of the Firm Series Room A-3464 Law Faculty Pavillon Maximilien-Caron University of Montreal The Interuniversity Research Centre on Globalization and Work (CRIMT) and the Centre de recherche en éthique de l’Université de Montréal (CREUM), in collaboration with the Social Responsibility and Sustainable Development Research Chair at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), organized an international seminar on Ethics and the Social Regulation of the Firm. Program (parts in French) |
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| 19 February 2009 • Multimedia Ethics and the Social Regulation of the Firm Corporate Social Responsibility and the role of the state: the case of tax competition Poster Accompanying Document (ENG - PowerPoint  )Click on the links below to see the video recording off this seminar (English and French). Please note that clips appear in the order of presentation. Conference Peter DIETSCH Professor, Department of philosophy, University of Montreal (CREUM) Clip 1: Peter Dietsch's Conference (English) Comment Stéphane ROUSSEAU Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Montreal Director, Centre for the Law of Business and International Trade Recipient, Chair in Business Law and International Trade, University of Montreal Jean CHAREST Professor, School of Industrial Relations, University of Montreal (CRIMT) Clip 2: Comments (French) Questions Clip 3: Questions (French) Viewing the video clips requires a broadband Internet connexion (DSL, Cable-Modem or LAN) and the QuickTime Player installed (for Windows XP or Vista users, the player can be downloaded for free at www.apple.com/quicktime/download/). Note: for faster viewing, tick the 'Play movies automatically' option in your QuickTime preference panel. |
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| 15 January 2009 • Multimedia Ethics and the Social Regulation of the Firm L’entreprise comme vecteur du progrès social : la fin ou le début d’une époque? Poster Accompanying Document (FR - PowerPoint )Click on the links below to see the video recording off this seminar (French). Please note that clips appear in the order of presentation. Conference Corinne GENDRON Professor, Département de stratégie, responsabilité sociale et environnementale, UQAM Recipient, Social Responsibility and Sustainable Development Research Chair, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) Invited Researcher at the Interuniversity Research Centre on Globalizationa and Work (CRIMT) Clip 1: Corinne Gendron's Conference (French) Commentaires Renée-Claude DROUIN Professeure, Faculté de droit, Université de Montréal (CRIMT) Daniel WEINSTOCK Professeur, Département de Philosophie, Université de Montréal Directeur, Centre de recherche en éthique de l'Université de Montréal (CREUM) Clip 2: Comments (French) Questions Clip 3: Questions (French) Viewing the video clips requires a broadband Internet connexion (DSL, Cable-Modem or LAN) and the QuickTime Player installed (for Windows XP or Vista users, the player can be downloaded for free at www.apple.com/quicktime/download/). Note: for faster viewing, tick the 'Play movies automatically' option in your QuickTime preference panel. |
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| 21-22 November 2008 • International Seminar Justice and Globalization in Labour Law Series The Function of the Judge in Social Transnational Disputes: Originality of Cases and Actual or Potential Place of the Judge as Actor in International Social Regulation European University Institute Villa La Fonte, Italy Seminar organized by the European University Institute, the Interuniversity Research Centre on Globalization and Work (CRIMT) and the University Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne. Program |
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| 17-19 October 2008 • International Seminar Globalization and the Service Workplace Organizers Danielle van JAARSVELD Daniyal ZUBERI This international seminar on globalization and the service workplace is cosponsored by CRIMT and the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of British Columbia. Its goal is threefold: the first is to develop a deeper understanding of how global competition is re-organizing different types of service work and in turn, the effects on job quality by generating debate across national boundaries, disciplinary lines, and industries within the service sector. Second, we will consider the ability of employment, labour and social policies to regulate service work and shape outcomes for the service workforce. Third, we will evaluate how traditional forms of collective representation (e.g. unions) are responding to globalization. Further details and registration info. available at www.globalwork.pwias.ubc.ca |
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| 17 October 2008 • Multimedia Employee Voice in Multinational Companies: do Country of Origin Effects Matter? Paul MARGINSON University of Warwick, United-Kingdom Poster Accompanying Document (ENG - PowerPoint )Click on the links below to see the video recording off this seminar (in French). Please note that clips appear in the order of presentation. Clip 1: Paul Marginson's presentation Clip 2: Questions Viewing the video clips requires a broadband Internet connexion (DSL, Cable-Modem or LAN) and the QuickTime Player installed (for Windows XP or Vista users, the player can be downloaded for free at www.apple.com/quicktime/download/). Note: for faster viewing, tick the 'Play movies automatically' option in your QuickTime preference panel. |
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| 7 October 2008 • Seminar Employee Voice in Multinational Companies: do Country of Origin Effects Matter? Paul MARGINSON University of Warwick, United-Kingdom 14h00, 420-14 Room (CETASE) 3744 Jean-Brillant Building University of Montreal Multinational companies from different countries of origin are often held to have distinct preferences regarding employee voice arrangements: union representation or non-union representation or no representation; direct and/or indirect (representative-based) mechanisms of employee communication and consultation. These preferences are said to derive from the national nidustrial relations models which prevail in the different countries in which multinationals are headquartered. Yet some recent studies point to the role of other factors in shaping mulitnationals' perferences, including sector, age of subsidiary and company strategy. Paul Marginson will draw on findings from a large-scale survey of the operations of multinational companies in the UK to examine the relative strength of country-of-origin effects on companies' employee voice practices. As a liberal market economy with rather permissive industrial relations institutions, the UK constitutes an environment in which there is considerable scope for multinationals to implement preferences. The findings suggest, however, that country-of-origin effects are attenuated by other factors. Also that there has been significant recent innovation in multinationals' employee voice practices. The UK survey parallels CRIMT's own survey into the employment practice of multinationals operating in Canada, and further surveys being undertaken by research teams in Ireland, Spain and Mexico. Taken together, the findings from these surveys offer rich potential for comparative analysis on employee voice and a range of other employment relations themes. Accompanying Document |
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| 30 September 2008 • Multimedia Vers une nouvelle façon d'aborder les restructurations à l'échelle européenne Marie-Ange MOREAU European University Institute, Italy Accompanying Document (ENG - PowerPoint )AgirE Project Website Click on the links below to see the video recording off this seminar (in French). Please note that clips appear in the order of presentation. Clip 1: Marie-Ange Moreau's presentation Clip 2: Questions Viewing the video clips requires a broadband Internet connexion (DSL, Cable-Modem or LAN) and the QuickTime Player installed (for Windows XP or Vista users, the player can be downloaded for free at www.apple.com/quicktime/download/). Note: for faster viewing, tick the 'Play movies automatically' option in your QuickTime preference panel. |
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| 22 September 2008 • Student funding CRIMT is pleased to announce the launch of its 2008B student funding initiatives, which aim at supporting graduate students who are producing an essay or a thesis under the supervision of a CRIMT coresearcher. Students’ applications and assessments by research supervisors must be mailed or delivered in person at the latest on October 29th 2008, date on which competition entry closes. Program 1. Studentship Program 2. International Exchange Fund Program 3. Dissemination Fund Accompanying Document. MCRI II Matrix Students who are interested are invited to contact Nicolas Roby or their supervisor for more information on these initiatives. |
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| 18 September 2008 • Seminar Vers une nouvelle façon d'aborder les restructurations à l'échelle européenne Marie-Ange MOREAU European University Institute, Italy 13h15, Room Béton Grill HEC Montreal, 3000 Côte-Sainte-Catherine |
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| 4 June 2008 • Honour ILO Decent Work Research Prize to CRIMT Coresearcher Along with Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz, Professor Harry ARTHURS, former Dean of Osgoode Hall Law School at York University in Toronto, Canada and former President of the University, was cited for a major specific contribution to the understanding of socio-economic relationships and policy instruments for the advancement of decent work. Professor Arthurs, Canada’s leading labour law academic, said that “for a labour law scholar, this is truly the most coveted prize”. He is also the author of a report to the Canadian government on Fairness at Work. Federal Labour Standards for the 21st Century submitted in 2006. |
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| 8 May 2008 • Seminar Quelle est la place des réseaux sociaux dans les activités d’innovation ? Réflexions à partir de deux enquêtes récentes Michel GROSSETTI Research Director at CNRS LISST University of Toulouse le Mirail Poster Click on the links below to see the video recording off this seminar (in French). Please note that clips appear in the order of presentation. Clip 1: Michel Grossetti's presentation Clip 2: Questions Viewing the video clips requires a broadband Internet connexion (DSL, Cable-Modem or LAN) and the QuickTime Player installed (for Windows XP or Vista users, the player can be downloaded for free at www.apple.com/quicktime/download/). Note: for faster viewing, tick the 'Play movies automatically' option in your QuickTime preference panel. |
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| 10 April 2008 • Seminar Does China Have a Labour Movement? Prospects for Industrial Relations Reform in China Bill TAYLOR Associate Professor Department of Public and Social Administration City University of Hong Kong Poster Accompanying Document (University Access) Click on the links below to see the video recording off this seminar. Please note that clips appear in the order of presentation. Clip 1: Bill Taylor's presentation Clip 2: Questions Viewing the video clips requires a broadband Internet connexion (DSL, Cable-Modem or LAN) and the QuickTime Player installed (for Windows XP or Vista users, the player can be downloaded for free at www.apple.com/quicktime/download/). Note: for faster viewing, tick the 'Play movies automatically' option in your QuickTime preference panel. |
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| 9 April 2008 • Round-table Major Challenges for European Unions: Local, National, Regional and/or Global? Philippe POCHET General Director, European Trade Union Institute - ETUI-REHS George ROSS Morris Hillquit Professor in Labor and Social Thought, Brandeis University & Professeur associé à la Chaire Jean-Monnet en Intégration européenne, University of Montreal Christian LÉVESQUE Professor, HEC Montréal & CRIMT Co-director Gregor MURRAY Canada Research Chair on Globalization and Work, University of Montreal & CRIMT Director This CRIMT activity was organized in collaboration with the Institute for European studies, the Chaire Jean-Monnet en intégration européenne and the European Union Center of Excellence. Poster Click on the links below to see the video recording off this round table (in French). Please note that clips appear in the order of presentation. Clip 1: Round table Clip 2: Questions Viewing the video clips requires a broadband Internet connexion (DSL, Cable-Modem or LAN) and the QuickTime Player installed (for Windows XP or Vista users, the player can be downloaded for free at www.apple.com/quicktime/download/). Note: for faster viewing, tick the 'Play movies automatically' option in your QuickTime preference panel. |
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| 4 April 2008 • Seminar Pluralisme juridique et droit du travail Jean-Guy BELLEY William C. Macdonald Chair Faculty of Law McGill University Guy ROCHER Centre de recherche en droit public University of Montreal Poster Accompanying Document Click on the links below to see the video recording off this seminar (in French). Please note that clips appear in the order of presentation. Clip 1: Guy Rocher's presentation Clip 2: Jean-Guy Belley's presentation Clip 3: Questions Viewing the video clips requires a broadband Internet connexion (DSL, Cable-Modem or LAN) and the QuickTime Player installed (for Windows XP or Vista users, the player can be downloaded for free at www.apple.com/quicktime/download/). Note: for faster viewing, tick the 'Play movies automatically' option in your QuickTime preference panel. |
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| 3 April 2008 • Seminar The Nature of International Integration and HR Policies in Multinational Companies Tony EDWARDS Senior Lecturer Department of Management King’s College London Poster Power Point presentation Accompanying Document Click on the links below to see the video recording off this seminar. Please note that clips appear in the order of presentation. Clip 1: Reconciling competing perspectives on MNCs Clip 2: Emerging findings from data survey Clip 3: Questions Viewing the video clips requires a broadband Internet connexion (DSL, Cable-Modem or LAN) and the QuickTime Player installed (for Windows XP or Vista users, the player can be downloaded for free at www.apple.com/quicktime/download/). Note: for faster viewing, tick the 'Play movies automatically' option in your QuickTime preference panel. |
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| 25 February 2008 • Student Funding Given the importance of disseminating the work of its PhD students, CRIMT is pleased to announce that it will offer travel grants to high profile conferences so that its most advanced students can present research results generated in the context of the SSHRC-MCRI project. As part of a pilot project, CRIMT is now considering applications for travel support from students who have submitted a proposal to the Canadian Industrial Relations Association annual conference (Vancouver, June 4-6, 2008) or the annual meeting of the Canadian Law and Society Association (Montreal, May 29th to June 1st, 2008). Dissemination Fund Eligibility Form (fill-in Word document )Students who are interested are invited to contact Nicolas Roby or their supervisor for more information on this new program. |
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| 14 February 2008 • Seminar Vers des relations industrielles supranationales ? Le cas du dialogue social sectoriel européen Evelyne LÉONARD Professor, Louvain School of Management President, Institut des Sciences du Travail Université catholique de Louvain Will start at 15:15 Marie-Husny room 3000, Côte-Sainte-Catherine Road HEC Montreal Free and open to all Affiche |
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| 24 January 2008 • Student funding CRIMT is pleased to announce the launch of its 2008A student funding initiatives, which aim at supporting graduate students who are producing an essay or a thesis under the supervision of a CRIMT coresearcher. Students’ applications and assessments by research supervisors must be mailed or delivered in person at the latest on (new date : February 20th 2008), date on which competition entry closes. 1. Studentship 2. International Exchange Fund Students who are interested are invited to contact Nicolas Roby or their supervisor for more information on these initiatives. |
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| 30 November 2007 • Seminar Workers' Rights as Human Rights:The Perspectives of US Courts,Labor Arbitrators and Human Resources Departments James A. GROSS ILR School, Cornell University Fulbright-McGill University Visiting Research Chair Poster Starting this Autumn, CRIMT will make available the video capture of all of its master classes and seminars, the first of which being that of Professor James Gross, from Cornell University. Please note that clips appear in the order of presentation. Clip 1: Workers' Rights as Human Rights Clip 2: The Perspectives of US Courts Clip 3: The Perspectives of Labor Arbitrators Clip 4: The Perspectives of HR Departments Clip 5: Questions Viewing the video clips requires a broadband Internet connexion (DSL, Cable-Modem or LAN) and the QuickTime Player installed (for Windows XP or Vista users, the player can be downloaded for free at www.apple.com/quicktime/download/). Note: for faster viewing, tick the 'Play movies automatically' option in your QuickTime preference panel. |
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| 17 August 2007 • Book Within the framework of its SSHRM-MCRI project Rethinking Institutions for Work and Employment in a Global Era, the CRIMT announces the publication of the book… Droit administratif du travail: Tribunaux et organismes spécialisés du domaine du travail Michel COUTU Georges MARCEAU With the collaboration of Annie Pelletier and Karine Pelletier 2007, Éditions Yvon Blais (published in French) Understanding the dynamic and the stakes Since the Second World War, administrative labour law is in constant evolution. Nevertheless, it is the coming into force of the Canadian Charter of rights and freedom, in 1982, that is certainly one of the most significant contemporary influences on the evolution of the administrative labour law. Its direct repercussions are numerous: new role of the upper courts, union freedom, private life, right to equality… Applying the foundation and the principals This important work gives a systematic presentation of the foundation and the principals of administrative labour law by bringing them back to the characteristic situations of labour and by taking into account, frequent situation in this field, the possibility of an administrative or judicial control. The book analyses the administrative tribunals by specialized branches of labour law: collective labour relations, labour norms, health and safety at the work and human rights. Raising decisive questions This colossal work gives a systematic presentation of the foundation and the principals of administrative labour law by bringing them back to the characteristic situations of labour and by taking into account, frequent situation in this field, the possibility of an administrative or judicial control. The book analyses the administrative tribunals by specialized branches of labour law: collective labour relations, labour norms, health and safety at the work and human rights. |
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| 22 June 2007 • Conference Papers and Summaries Selected papers and summaries of presentations delivered at the International Conference on What Public Policies for Work in a Global Era are now available at > Workshop Papers Please note that next Autumn, CRIMT will launch a dedicated Website featuring over 160 audio and video clips from the Conference (amounting to about 60 hours of multimedia material!) as part of its training and knowledge transfer initiatives (developed under the auspices of its SSHRC-MCRI Project – Rethinking Institutions for Work and Employment in a Global Era). Make sure to come back often! |
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| June 2007 • Thematic Issue As part of its SSHRC-MCRI Project on Rethinking Institutions for Work and Employment in a Global Era, CRIMT announces the publication of a special issue of Les Cahiers de droit (mostly French, with some articles in English) on the constitutionalisation of labour law. It is edited by Christian BRUNELLE, CRIMT coresearcher and professor at the Faculty of Law, Université Laval. Les Cahiers de droit La constitutionnalisation du droit du travail June 2007, Vol.48, No.1-2 Guest Editor Christian BRUNELLE Table of Contents Introduction Christian BRUNELLE Article 1 La constitutionnalisation du droit du travail : un nouveau paradigme Christian BRUNELLE, Michel COUTU & Gilles TRUDEAU Article 2 Labour and the « Real » Constitution H.W. ARTHURS Article 3 La loi et l’accès à la syndicalisation de certains travailleurs (ses) non salariés vulnérables : une relation pathologique ? Urwana COIQUAUD Article 4 La « constitutionnalisation rampante » du droit du travail français Antoine JEAMMAUD Article 5 La répartition constitutionnelle des compétences entre la loi et les accords collectifs de travail en droit français Bertrand MATHIEU Article 6 A Struggle for Democracy in the Workplace : The Possibilities and Limits of the Constitutionalization of Labour and Employment Law in Brazil Maximiliano NAGL GARCEZ Article 7 La constitutionnalisation du droit du travail : une menace ou une opportunité pour les rapports collectifs de travail ? Guylaine VALLÉE & Dalia GESUALDI-FECTEAU Article 8 Le droit de congédier un employé physiquement ou psychologiquement inapte : revu et corrigé par le droit à l’égalité et le droit au travail Dominic ROUX & Anne-Marie LAFLAMME Article 9 Le droit de retour au travail et l’obligation d’accommodement : la Commission de la santé et de la sécurité du travail peut-elle résister à l’envahisseur ? Anne-Marie LAFLAMME Article 10 La promotion des droits de la personne influe-t-elle sur l’évolution des plaintes portant sur le devoir syndical de juste représentation au Québec ? (1978-2005) Marie-Josée LEGAULT & Philippe BERGERON Article 11 La liberté d’expression au travail et l’obligation de loyauté du salarié : étude empirique de l’incidence des chartes Mélanie SAMSON & Christian BRUNELLE Article 12 Épilogue : La « constitutionnalisation » du droit du travail : perte ou salut de son âme? Pierre VERGE Summary of articles (Mostly in French) |
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| April 2007 • Research Report La formation de la main-d’œuvre dans une perspective de développement économique régional. Examen du rôle des politiques publiques, des ressources de soutien, du partenariat et des entreprises dans cinq régions du Québec Jean CHAREST (director) Martine POULIN |
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| March 2007 • Thematic Issue CRIMT announces the publication of a special issue of Relations industrielles/ Industrial Relations on the theme of union renewal. Drawing on the CRIMT International Colloquium on Union Renewal (November 2004), this issue is co-edited by Larry HAIVEN, Christian LÉVESQUE & Nicolas ROBY, CRIMT Coresearch and Domain Coordinator, CRIMT Coresearch and Codirector and CRIMT Scientific Coordinator, respectively. Relations industrielles/ Industrial Relations Paths to Union Renewal: Challenges and Issues 2006, Vol.61, No.4 Guest Editors Larry HAIVEN, Christian LÉVESQUE & Nicolas ROBY Table of contents Introduction Pistes de renouveau syndical : Défis et enjeux Paths to Union Renewal: Challenges and Issues Larry HAIVEN, Christian LÉVESQUE & Nicolas ROBY Article 1 Powerful Cummunity Relationship and Union Renewal in Australia Amanda TATTERSALL Article 2 Still “Regime Competition”? Trade Unions and Multinational Restructuring in Europe Valeria PULIGNANO Article 3 When Corporations Substitute for Adversarial Unions: Labour Markets and Human Resource Management at Magna Wayne LEWCHUK & Don WELLS Article 4 Building Democracy for Women and Sexual Minorities: Union Embrace of Diversity Gerald HUNT & Judy HAIVEN Article 5 Syndicalisme critique et défi institutionnel: vers l’individualisation du militantisme? Ivan SAINSAULIEU Article 6 Renouveau syndical au Mexique sous le premier gouvernement de transition Graciela BENSUSÁN
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| October 2006 • Seminar papers Papers presented at the Seminar on Regional Integration (organized under the auspices of CRIMT's SSHRC-MCRI Project Rethinking Institutions for Work and Employment in a Global Era, with the financial contribution of Human Resources and Social Development Canada) are now available for download.
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| September 2006 • Research Report Employment Practices in Multinational Companies in Canada: Building Organizational Capabilities and Institutions for Innovation Jacques BÉLANGER Pierre-Antoine HARVEY Patrice JALETTE Christian LÉVESQUE Gregor MURRAY This study of the activities of multinational companies (MNCs) in Canada results from a unique collaboration between a CRIMT research team, the Conference Board of Canada’s Canada Project and a special funding initiative from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Based on a survey of the most senior HR manager in Canadian- and foreign-controlled MNCs in Canada, it seeks to understand the changing role of Canadian operations of MNCS within their global firms, their innovations in employment policies and work organization, and the influence of public policy on their practices and policies. The great variety of MNC activity in Canada highlights the importance of constructing intra-firm relationships and making the case for the Canadian operations within the worldwide company. Managers and employees in Canada have a fair degree of autonomy to develop new products and processes and employment policies and practices, although less so in U.S.-based firms. Since the autonomy to innovate in employment practices appears to be underutilized, a key conclusion is the importance of fostering specific Canadian capabilities in these practices. Among key policy conclusions, corporate intermediary structures and greater investment in Canadian networks and institutions help Canadian MNC operations to play a more significant role within their worldwide companies. Moreover, public policy and engagement with “local” institutions are important resources in helping to develop firm-specific capabilities and reinforcing the role of Canadian operations within their worldwide companies. Report |
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| September 2006 • New publication CRIMT announces the publication of two new books realized within the framework of its SSHRC-MCRI Project on Rethinking Institutions for Work and Employment in a Global Era |
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| Normes sociales, droit du travail et mondialisation. Confrontations et mutations Marie-Ange MOREAU 2006, Éditions Dalloz (published in French) The phenomenon of globalization hits labour laws head-on and forces a re-evaluation of social norms at a national, a regional (particularly as part of the European Union and NAFTA) and an international level. New techniques of social regulation appear in the middle of economic, political, juridical debates: they show the importance of the legal regulation of globalization. This work explains the confrontations which have taken place for these last fifteen years and puts in perspective through compared analyses the mutations which they procreate. In the European Union as in North America or an international level, appears the necessity to take into consideration the transnational character of the work relationships which transforms the normative constructions and the strategies of the actors. Table of Contents |
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| Le droit du travail par ses sources Pierre VERGE, Gilles TRUDEAU & Guylaine VALLÉE 2006, Les Éditions Thémis (published in French) The book offers a synthesis of the legal rules applicable to paid work in Quebec. This summary is focused on the contribution and the interrelation between the different sources that contributed to build this field of law. This highly evolutionary field of law in fact has a unique place in the larger legal domain because of the very diversity of rules from which it is constituted. Some come from public, national and international sources. They are sometimes specific to work, sometimes more general, such as those affirming fundamental human rights. Other rules emanate from private sources, for example the parties to work relations, and can be found in collective bargaining agreements, work contracts or the policies of firms. The first part of this book presents different sources of labour law, the principles informing their interrelations, as well as the important role of jurisdictions in their application and interpretation. The second part illustrates how these sources combine today, at the federal as well as provincial (Quebec) level, to regulate in an original manner every step of the wage relationship, with or without a collective bargaining agreement, from its inception to to its termination, as well as the human resource and business management modes, in a context of unionization as well as non-unionization. Table of Contents |
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