MHR 523 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Human Resource Management, Canadian Human Rights Commission, War Measures Act

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Lecture 4 notes chapter 2_part 1 (legal part of strategic human resource management) Origins of canadian legislation: industrial disputes investigations act(1907): The canada labour code is an act of parliament of the canadian government to consolidate certain statutes respecting labour. The objective of the code is to facilitate production by controlling strikes & lockouts, occupational safety and health, and some employment standards: the wagner act (usa) (1935): Wagner act, officially national labor relations act (1935), single most- important piece of labour legislation enacted in the united states in the 20th century. Its main purpose was to establish the legal right of most workers (notably excepting agricultural and domestic workers) to organize or join labour unions and to bargain collectively with their employers: wartime labour relations regulations (1944): The wartime labour relations regulations,[1] adopted by order in council p. c. 1003 on 17 february 1944, was a wartime measure introduced during world.