Wednesday, September 23, 2020

Unions: Do They Actually Have Some Balance - Ultimate Job Security Versus Less Severance Rights?

But then again who is ever fired? 

"...Unionized employees are angry. Not at their employers and not always at their unions, but at their plight. A plight which has led to the blinding realization that they have far fewer rights than their non-unionized peers.

The pandemic has driven that home with intensifying ferocity. Unionized employees have no right to claim wrongful dismissal or constructive dismissal. If they are ultimately terminated, their severance is governed by the minimal provisions of employment standards legislation, a fraction of what a court would provide. Some unions negotiate greater severance but few in this country negotiate anything approximating what their members would have been entitled to if they had not been unionized..."

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