What jurisdiction does an arbitrator have over conditions of employment?

Ontario, Canada


The following excerpt is from County of Brant v. OPSEU, 2013 ONSC 1955 (CanLII):

It is generally accepted that “arbitrators have a broad exclusive jurisdiction over issues relating to conditions of employment, provided that those conditions can be shown to have express or implicit connection to the collective agreement”: Bisaillon v. Concordia University, 2006 SCC 19 (CanLII), [2006] 1 S.C.R. 666, at para. 33.

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