Can a slight amount of work be considered “work” under a collective agreement?
Canada (Federal), Canada
The following excerpt is from Trudeau and Milligan v. Treasury Board (Canada Border Services Agency), 2012 PSLRB 72 (CanLII):
29 The union’s representative submitted that the fact that the task being performed was slight or that it might not be “work” in any conventional sense did not mean that it could not be “work” for the purposes of the collective agreement, and quoted the following: “… ‘worked’ may include a period in which no work is actually performed but in which the employee remains under the employer’s direction and control and/or in which the employee’s responsibilities to the employer continue…” from Town of Midland v. O.P.S.E.U., Local 328 (1987), 31 L.A.C. (3d) 251.
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