June 5, 2019 by
Anonymous
CIRA’s 2019 conference starts today! CIRHR students, faculty and alumni are at UBC sharing their research – here is where to find them:
Wednesday, June 5th, 2019
10:45 – 12:00
Panel: Women in Academia
- Dionne Pohler, Assistant Professor, Center for Industrial Relations and Human Resources, University of Toronto; Sima Sajjadiani, Assistant Professor, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia; Johanna Weststar, Associate Professor, DAN Department of Management & Organizational Studies, Western University; Brenda Lautsch, Associate Dean, Faculty, Associate Professor, Beedie School of Business, Simon Fraser University
7:00 – 18:45
Opening Plenary: Nelson Lichtenstein (University of California, Santa Barbara) - “Can Sectorial Bargaining Save the American Labor Movement?”
- Panelists: Sara Slinn (York University); Alexander J. S. Colvin (Cornell University)
Thursday, June 6th, 2019
8:30-10:00
Employability and Recruitment in the 21st Century
- Yao Yao (University of Toronto) - “Uberizing The Legal Profession: Lowered Lawyer Autonomy and Status in The Digital Legal Market” *Winner of Allen Ponak Best Student Paper Award
The Impact of Stress & Work-Family Conflict on Employee Mental Health
- Elham Marzi (University of Toronto) - “Empowerment at work: A resource for mitigation of job demands”
10:30-12:00
Union Renewal: Social Media, and the Platform Economy
- Chair: Johanna Weststar (Western University)
- Lorenzo Frangi (Université du Québec à Montréal); Tingting Zhang (Western New England University) - “Uphill and downhill on Twitter: Union Centricity and Network changes through major FF$15 events”
Regulating the Employment Relationship
- Chair: Scott Walsworth (University of Saskatchewan)
- Jennifer Harmer (University of Toronto); Qian Zhang (University of Toronto); Allen Ponak (University of Calgary); Piers Steel (University of Calgary); Daphne Taras (Ryerson University) - “Do arbitrators procrastinate?”
- Robert Hebdon (McGill University) - “Freedom of Association and the Limits on Government - the Cases of Back-to-work and Wage Control laws”
Advances in Collective Bargaining: Employee Ownership, Workplace Democracy, and Conflict
- Alexander J. S. Colvin (Cornell University); John Budd (University of Minnesota); Dionne Pohler (University of Toronto) - “Understanding the structural, cognitive, and psychogenic sources of conflict: toward an integrated framework”
1:30-3:00
HR Policies, Compensation, and Employee Behavior
- John Budd (University of Minnesota); Dionne Pohler (University of Toronto); Wei Huang (Renmin University) - “When HR Policies Cause Conflict: The Importance of (Mis)Matched Cognitive Frames”
3:30-5:00
Living Wage Campaigns & the low wage workforce
- Anil Verma (University of Toronto) - “Low Wage Workers in Canada: Recent Evidence from a Survey & Implications for Policy”
Friday, June 7th, 2019
8:30-10:00
Advances in HR policies & practices
- Scott Walsworth (University of Saskatchewan) - Not Even on Vacation?: Evaluating the Legal Case for Cannabis Abstinence Workplace Policy
Labour Market Policies and Outcomes
- Dionne Pohler & Kourtney Koebel (University of Toronto) - “Expanding the Canada Workers Benefit to Design a Guaranteed Basic Income”
10:30-12:00
Engaging with IR Scholars and Other Constituents: The promises and pitfalls of social media, online tools, and open access
- Kourtney Koebel & Dionne Pohler (University of Toronto); John Budd (University of Minnesota); Nicholas Roby (CRIMT/ Université de Montréal)
1:30-3:00
Working in the care sector
- Chair: Chris Riddell (University of Waterloo)
Fighting Precarious Work: A Critical Assessment of Union Models, Strategies, and the State
- Marie-Josée Legault (Université Téluq); Johanna Weststar (Western University) - “Towards new collective action models for the international video game industry”
- Sara Slinn (York University) - “Broader-Based and Sectoral Bargaining: A Typology and Framework for Reform”
15:00 – 15:30
Final Plenary
- “Setting the Stage for ILERA 2020” - Lorenzo Frangi (Université du Québec à Montréal) & Johanna Weststar (Western University)