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:This course will study a number of specific issues in labour and employment law and will introduce students to some of the key challenges of regulating the contemporary workplace. It will provide a conceptual and empirical introduction to these issues and examine how the changing workplace has undermined aspects of our existing labour law regime. The course will consider the role and potential of labour law reform and Charter litigation in this context and explore a number of issues of particular interest to the future of labour law.

Topics to be covered by the course include: Theoretical Perspectives on Labour Law; The Changing Nature of Work; The Death/Future of Labour Law; Reforming the Wagner Model; Right-to-Work Laws; Workers' Rights and the Charter; Regulating the Gig Economy; Temporary Migrant Workers' Rights; Gender, Pay Equity and Work; Alternative Models of Worker Voice; and Alt-Labour.

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