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43: Employees' attention to be drawn to initiation of bargaining
or “Bosses must tell workers when talks about work rules are starting”
You could also call this:

“This explains when people start talking about making a group work agreement”

When you start bargaining for a collective agreement, it begins on a specific day. If only one notice is needed under section 42, bargaining starts on the day that notice is given. If more than one notice is needed under section 42, bargaining starts on the day the last notice is given.

Sometimes, there’s a special kind of bargaining called consolidated bargaining. This happens when you want to make a single collective agreement under section 50. In this case, the bargaining starts on the day when all the unions agree to the employer’s request to join their bargaining efforts together.

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Next up: 44A: Employer may opt out of bargaining for collective agreement, or for agreement to join collective agreement, involving 2 or more employers

or “Bosses can choose not to join group talks with other bosses about worker agreements.”
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Part 5 Collective bargaining
Bargaining

44When bargaining initiated

  1. Bargaining for a collective agreement is initiated,—

  2. if only 1 notice is required under section 42, on the day on which the notice is given:
    1. if more than 1 notice is required under section 42, on the day on which the last notice is given.

      1. Consolidated bargaining for a single collective agreement under section 50 is initiated on the day by which all the unions concerned agree to the request from the employer to consolidate bargaining initiated by the unions.