Item - 2019.EP6.10

The Board of Governors of Exhibition Place:

1.  Directed that the confidential information contained in Confidential Attachment 1 to the report (September 5, 2019) from the Chief Executive Officer, Exhibition Place remain confidential in its entirety, as it pertains to labour relations and potential litigation that affects Exhibition Place.

This report provides an update of the labour relations environment at Exhibition Place since it became a non-construction employer on July 4, 2019.

In addition to making the decision to become a non-construction employer, the Board also provided the following direction to staff:

"Should the Board of Governors of Exhibition Place become a non-construction employer by operation of the Labour Relations Act, 1995, and through the Restoring Ontario's Competitiveness Act, 2019, Schedule 9, the Board directs the Chief Executive Officer to engage with the Union partners with whom Exhibition Place has local collective agreements to determine what, if any, work opportunities may be affected by becoming a non-construction employer and what, if any, of these work opportunities may be performed by staff effectively under the local collective agreements."