BILL NO. 140

(as introduced)

1st Session, 59th General Assembly
Nova Scotia
53 Elizabeth II, 2004

Private Member's Bill

Highway Workers Collective Bargaining Act
(amended)

Charlie Parker
Pictou West

First Reading: October 14, 2004

(Explanatory Note)

Second Reading:

Third Reading:

Explanatory Note

This Bill makes all terms and conditions of employment of highway workers subject to arbitration, instead of only those listed in the Schedule to the Highway Workers Collective Bargainng Act.

An Act to Amend Chapter 1
of the Acts of 1997 (Second Session),
the Highway Workers Collective Bargaining Act

Be it enacted by the Governor and Assembly as follows:

1 (1) Subsection 24(1) of Chapter 1 of the Acts of 1997 (Second Session), the Highway Workers Collective Bargaining Act, is amended by striking out "and are arbitral terms and conditions of employment within the Schedule to this Act" in the fifth and sixth lines.

(2) Subsection 24(2) of Chapter 1 is amended by striking out "arbitrable" in the second line of clause (a), in the second line of clause (b) and in the second line of clause (c).

(3) Subsection 24(3) of Chapter 1 is amended by striking out "arbitrable items that are included within the Schedule to this Act and" in the third and fourth lines and substituting "items that are".