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Dunmore v. Ontario (Attorney General)
Supreme Court of Canada · Canada · 2001-12-20 · National court
Citation: 2001 SCC 94
Type of case: Constitutional and human rights
Outcome: Decided for the migrant side
Question
May farm workers be excluded entirely from the labour relations law that protects union activity?
What the court decided
No. Excluding agricultural workers left them unable to organise and breached freedom of association.
In plain language
Ontario farm workers, many of them seasonal migrants, had no legal protection to form unions. The Supreme Court said total exclusion was unconstitutional.
Dalam bahasa sederhana
Pekerja pertanian Ontario, banyak di antaranya migran musiman, tidak punya perlindungan hukum untuk membentuk serikat. MA menyatakan pengecualian total itu inkonstitusional.
Pertanyaan: Bolehkah pekerja pertanian dikecualikan sepenuhnya dari UU hubungan kerja yang melindungi kegiatan serikat?
What happened afterwards
- 2001-12-20: Judgment.
- 2002: Agricultural Employees Protection Act adopted.
Sources
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Cite as: Institute for Migrant Rights (2026), Migration Jurisprudence from the South, version 0.1, https://theimr.org/court-decisions/d/ca-dunmore-2001/. This page summarizes a court decision for research and advocacy; it is not legal advice.