Acknowledgments

• Author: Timothy Hadwen - David Strang - Leonard Marvy - Don Eady
• Profession: Director, Legal Services Branch, Ontario Ministry of Labour - Associate Director, Management Board Secretariat - Solicitor, Ontario Labour Relations Board - Partner, Paliare Roland Rosenberg Rothstein LLP
• Pages: 29-30

Acknowledgments

ere is a community of people concerned w ith the employment and labour law

governing Ontario’s public service and desig nated Crown agencies, and it is our

hope that this book w ill be useful to t hem. Quite a number of the members of this

community have contributed in one way or another to th is book, and the authors

are very gratefu l to them.

Several people were prepared to invest some of their considerable expertise

in much appreciated written contribut ions on particular topics: Craig Flood (oc-

cupational health and safety); Murray Gold (OPS pensions); Felix Lau (PSPP);

Gavin Leeb (“reasonable eort s” and interim relief at the GSB); Victoria Reaume

(pay equity); and Cameron Walker (job security under the OPSEU/MBS collec-

tive agreement). A number of people provided constructive comments on all or

part of the manuscript: Richard Blair, Ron Davis, Jim Gilbert, Robin Gordon,

John Hadwen, Gavin Leeb, Lisa McCa skell, Stephen Patterson, Ian Roland, Dean

Samaras, Barry Scanlon, Paul Schabas, Karen Schucher, Susan Stewart, Ken

Swan, Janet Wright, and others. e project was supported by Susan Stewart,

Chair of the GSB; Bil l Kaplan; and Owen Shime. e law rms of Kosk ie Minsky,

Paliare Roland, and Ryder Wright have provided funding and/or person power

whenever requested, and we than k them for being generous benefactors.

Painstaking research, section draing, and cite-checking assistance was

provided by Je Conway, Chris Essert, Emi ly Lawrence, Ariel Liebowitz, Sidney

Peters, Sheila Riddell, Joel Schwart z, Lisa Stam, Maryth Yachnin, and especi ally

Ken Hurlbut. anks also to Caroline Goodwin, Registrar, and the sta at the

GSB for retrieving material from their records. Particular mention should be

made of Alison Colvin, for guiding the legislative history; Annie Keung, OP-

SEU’s librarian, for her many forms of help; and the late George Richards, for

sharing his own book materi al. Administrative assista nce was provided by Cora

Calix terio and Lorraine Dougla s. Lori Dileo put the whole manuscr ipt together,

a complicated and lengthy ta sk, and we thank her for her thoughtfu l and tireless

work. We also wish to than k Je Miller and the team at Ir win Law, and our editor

Janet MacMilla n, for their patience and their care while worki ng to deadline.

e authors engaged in a good deal of healthy debate about some of the con-

tent of this book, but the result is a joint eor t to accurately state the Ontario law

as of June . Tim Hadwen was the origin ator and project manager. He also had

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