The Business Council submitted a supplemental, responsive submission to the Section 3 Labour Relations Code Review Panel which covers:

1.      The economic context in which B.C. businesses are currently operating as it pertains to the Panel’s s.3 review and the impact of changes proposed by labour groups within that context.

2.      Comments on changes proposed by labour groups:

·         recognition of so-called “virtual picketing”;

·         mandatory production of employee lists to unions establishing only 20% threshold support;

·         expanded application of legislated “deemed” successorship in the context of competitive service contract retendering; and

·         sectoral bargaining.

3.      Comments on the recent amendments to the definition of “strike” (Bill 9) that has occurred without the benefit of review by the Panel.