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Thursday, 25 March 2010
28th Annual Sefton Memorial Lecture
Presented by CIRHR and Woodsworth College
Speaker: Don Drummond:
Senior Vice President and Chief Economist
TD Bank Financial Group
Topic: The Changing Canadian Workplace
Time: 7:00 pm
Location: Krugal Hall, Woodsworth College
The evening will also include presentations of the Morley Gunderson Prize and the Sefton Award for Contributions to Industrial Relations.

Sefton Award
Winner

Bob Baldwin
Pension specialist and former Research Director of the Canadian Labour Congress
Morley Gunderson
Prize Winner
David Doorey
Professor of Employment and Labour Law, School of Human Resource Management, York University
 
Wednesday, 3 February 2010
SEMINAR - Empirical Findings on the Meaning of Work and Work Centrality
Presented by Itzhak Harpaz, Director, Center for the Study of Organizations and Human Resource Management, and Professor, Graduate School of Management, University of Haifa
Click here (pdf) for more details.

Work Centrality and Post-Award Work Behavior of Lottery Winners (pdf, 17p.), by Richard D. Harvey, Itzhak Harpaz and Hui Liao.

The Meaning of Work, Employment Relations, and Strategic Human Resources Management in Israel (pdf, 12 p.), by Itzhak Harpaz, Ilan Meshoulam.

 
Monday, 7 December 2009
SEMINAR - Patterns of Unionization in the U.S.: Who is Unionized and When?
Presented by John W. Budd, Land Grant Professor, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota
Click here (pdf) for more details.

Never Say Never?: Uncovering the Never-Unionized in the United States (pdf, 46p.), by Jonathan E. Booth, John W. Budd and Kristen M. Munday.

First-Timers And Late-Bloomers: Youth-Adult Unionization Differences in a Cohort of the U.S. Labor Force (pdf, 39 p., Oct. 2009), by Jonathan E. Booth, John W. Budd and Kristen M. Munday.

 
Monday, 9 November 2009
SEMINAR - Fairness at work : what we can learn from innovations in the Fair Work Act 2009 (Australia)
Presented by Prof. Anthony Forsyth, Associate Professor, Business and Law, Monash University, Australia
Click here (pdf) for more details.
"Exit Stage Left", now "Centre Stage" [pdf] : Collective Bargaining under Work Choices and Fair Work, by Forsyth, from Fair Work: the New Workplace Laws and the Work Choices Legacy, 2009
Good Faith Bargaining: Australian, United States and Canadian Comparisons, speech by Forsyth
 
Wednesday, 21 October 2009
SEMINAR - Hotel workers: can they aspire to live the Canadian dream?
Presented by Paul Clifford, President, UNITE-HERE Local 75, and Janet Dasinger, Training Coordinator, UNITE-HERE Local 75
Click here (pdf) for more details.
 
Lancaster House Conferences - Toronto
See the website for upcoming Conferences.
Presented by Lancaster House and CIRHR.
  • Human Rights and Accommodation, 20-21 April 2010
  • Labour Arbitration 17 December 2009
  • Bargaining in the Broader Public Sector, 16 December 2009
  • Workplace Safety and Insurance, November 2009
  • Health and Safety, November 2009
  • Canadian Labour Board, October 2009
 

 


 




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