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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 round table (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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| Research Exchange Activities
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| Conference 8 November 2007 Université Laval Rapports hiérarchiques ou anarchiques des règles de droit : chartes, normes d’ordre public, convention collective, contrat de travail, etc.  |
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| SSHRC-MCRI Meeting Magog III 12-14 October 2007 Hôtel Chéribourg Rethinking Institutions for Work and employment in a Global Era |
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| International Seminar 11 October 2007 HEC Montreal Knowledge Workers |
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| CRIMT Summer School 4-7 June 2007 HEC Montréal McGill University How to structure the thesis, present in conferences and insure a maximum impact with labour market partners |
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| International Conference 24-26 May 2007 HEC Montreal What Public Policies for Work in a Global Era? |
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| Séminaire international 4-5 avril 2007 HEC Montréal Enjeux et transformations de la négociation sociale |
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| International Seminar 29-30 September 2006 Mapping the Social in Regional Integration : Rethinking Labour Regulation |
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| International Conference 20-21 September 2006 Human Resource Management in Multinational Companies: Global Value Chains, Employment Practices and Public Policy |
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| International Seminar 8-9 June 2006 Les restructurations d'entreprise : Nouvelles logiques, stratégies d'acteurs et modes d'intervention |
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| CRIMT Summer School 31 May - 4 June 2006 Collecting, Comparing, Writing: Theory, Skills & Technics |
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| ACFAS Congress 15-16 May 2006 Enjeux et acteurs de la régulation dans une économie mondialisée |
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| CRIMT Seminar 8 May 2008 Michel Grossetti Quelle est la place des réseaux sociaux dans les activités d’innovation ? Réflexions à partir de deux enquêtes récentes |
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| CRIMT Seminar 10 April 2008 Bill Taylor Does China Have a Labour Movement? Prospects for Industrial Relations Reform in China |
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| CRIMT Round-table 9 April 2008 Philippe Pochet George Ross Christian Lévesque Gregor Murray Major Challenges for European Unions: Local, National, Regional and/or Global? |
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| CRIMT Seminar 4 April 2008 Jean-Guy Belley Guy Rocher Pluralisme juridique et droit du travail |
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| CRIMT Seminar 3 April 2008 Tony Edwards The Nature of Interational Integration and HR Policies in Multinational Companies |
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| CRIMT Seminar 14 February 2008 Evelyne Léonard Vers des relations industrielles supranationales ? Le cas du dialogue social sectoriel européen |
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| CRIMT Seminar 30 November 2007 James Gross Workers' Rights as Human Rights: The Perspectives of US Courts, Labor Arbitrators and Human Resources Departments |
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| Master Class 14 September 2007 Philippe Bernoux Itinéraire d'un sociologue |
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| CRIMT Seminar 2 April 2007 Sophie Béroud Les rapports entres les syndicats et les mouvements sociaux en France : 1995-2006 |
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| CRIMT Seminar 14 March 2007 Jean Bernier Les jeunes, le travail et les syndicats |
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| CRIMT Seminar/ Master Class 27-28 February 2007 Annette Jobert L'évolution des relations professionnelles en France depuis les années 1970: un parcours de recherche |
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| Seminar 1 February 2007 Han Dongfang À quand des syndicats libres en Chine ? |
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| CRIMT Seminar 15 January 2007 Jean-Claude Javillier Le droit (international) du travail: Quelle effectivité ? Document |
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| CRIMT Seminar 11 December 2006 Paul K. Edwards Industrial Relations as Critical Realism: Beyond a Do-it-Yourself Ontology Working Paper |
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