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C-284 An Act to amend the Canada Labour Code (replacement workers)

Bans employers from bringing in managers from other workplaces to do the work of striking or locked-out employees.

What Bill C-284 would do

The bill would amend the Canada Labour Code to restrict who can work during a strike or lockout. Employers would not be allowed to use managers or confidential industrial relations staff from another workplace to do the jobs of bargaining unit employees who are on strike or locked out. The published material gives no further detail.

Official text

Official summary

This enactment amends the Canada Labour Code to provide that, during a strike or lockout, an employer cannot use the services of any person who performs management functions or who is employed in a confidential capacity in matters related to industrial relations in another workplace to perform the duties of an employee who is in the bargaining unit on strike or locked out.

The government's summary, printed at the front of the bill as introduced.

Kind
Private member's bill
Sponsor
Don Davies, Member of Parliament (Vancouver Kingsway)
Introduced
in the House of Commons
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Where it stands

  1. ProposedJun 8 Exact stageOutside the Order of Precedence · since June 8, 2026Introduced, but not debated yet.
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  6. First reading in the Senate not yet

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  8. Third reading in the Senate not yet

  9. Royal assent not yet

Exact procedural stages

Officially: Outside the Order of Precedence · since June 8, 2026.

  1. House
  2. Senate
  3. Royal assent

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