C-302An Act to amend the Canada Labour Code (replacement workers)

What it does

• Adds a rule that lets the Canada Industrial Relations Board settle a new collective agreement after 90 days of a strike or lockout, if the parties have bargained in good faith for at least 30 days and still have no agreement.
• Requires employers to reinstate employees in the bargaining unit when a strike or lockout ends, ahead of other people.
• Bars employers from using people hired during the notice-to-bargain period, contractors, other employees, or other outside help to do strikers' or locked-out workers' duties, except in limited cases.
• Allows replacement workers only when needed to prevent danger to life, health or safety, major damage to equipment or premises, or serious environmental damage, and only for conservation purposes.
• Lets the Minister appoint an investigator to check compliance, require assistance at the workplace, and order a report to the Minister and the parties.
• Makes a person who breaks the replacement-worker rule guilty of an offence and liable to a fine of up to $100,000 for each day the offence continues.