4th Session, 42nd Parliament

(2023) FIRST READING

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MR. TREVOR HALFORD

BILL M 225 – 2023

FRASER VALLEY TRANSIT SERVICES ACT, 2023

This Bill terminates the current Fraser Valley Transit Services strike in respect of workers who operate a handyDART vehicle.

HIS MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of British Columbia, enacts as follows:

Definitions

1 In this Act:

"employee" means an employee of an employer;

"employer" means First Transit;

"handyDART vehicle" means a vehicle designed to transport persons with permanent or temporary disabilities;

"trade union" means Canadian Union of Public Employees, Local 561.

Resumption of transit services

2 Immediately after this Act comes into force and despite the Labour Relations Code ,

(

a) an employer must not lock out or declare a lockout of any of its employees who operate a handyDART vehicle and must terminate any lockout,

(

b) a trade union and the employees represented by that trade union who operate a handyDART vehicle must not strike or declare a strike and must terminate any strike,

(

c) every employee who operates a handyDART vehicle must resume their duties and work schedules of employment with the employer,

(

d) any declaration, authorization or direction to go on strike given before or after the coming into force of this Act becomes invalid in respect of an employee who operates a handyDART vehicle,

(

e) an officer or representative of a trade union must not in any manner impede or prevent, or attempt to impede or prevent, any person to whom paragraphs (

a) to (

c) apply from complying with those paragraphs, and

(

f) an employer or a person acting on behalf of an employer must not

(

i) refuse to permit any person to whom paragraphs (

a) to (

c) apply to resume the duties of their employment, or

(ii) discharge or in any other manner discipline such a person by reason of the person having been locked out or on strike before the coming into force of this Act.

Repeal

3 This Act may be repealed by regulation of the Lieutenant Governor in Council.

Commencement

4 This Act comes into force on the date of Royal Assent.

Explanatory Note

This Bill terminates the current Fraser Valley Transit Services strike in respect of workers who operate a handyDART vehicle.

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