Dr. Tim Bartkiw
Overview
Timothy Bartkiw is an Associate Professor in the Department of Human Resources and Organizational Behaviour. He holds a Ph.D. in public policy and degrees in economics and law. He is also a qualified lawyer who has practiced labour/employment law for several years. His academic research interests span the fields of labour/employment law and policy, industrial relations, and political economy. He teaches various courses in labour/employment law and industrial relations at Ryerson. His most recent research topics include the regulation of precarious work and triangular employment, worker access to unionization and the erosion of the collective labour relations regulatory framework; and labour law Charter jurisprudence and the increased “legalization” of labour policy via Charter litigation.
In addition to his academic research, Tim has been an active participant in the labour law review and policy development and has served as an advisor to the government in multiple labour law review processes within both provincial and federal jurisdictions pertaining to federal employment standards law and provincial labour relations and collective bargaining models relating to both the public and private sectors. Tim is also a member of the Labour Law Casebook Group and a co-editor of the most recent volume of the labour and employment law textbook that this group co-edits collectively.
Labour and employment law and policy, industrial relations, public policy, and political economy.
| Papers in Refereed Journals |
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| CHUSS (Covid-19 Homeworking by University Staff Survey) Research Group (2022), “Sustained knowledge work and thinking time amongst academics: gender and working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic, Labour and Industry (external link) , 32:1, (2022), 72-92 |
| Bartkiw, Timothy, “Charting a New Course in a Fissured Economy? Employer Concepts and Collective Bargaining in the U.S. and Canada,” International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations 37, no. 4 (2021): 385-416. |
| Bartkiw, T. J. (2020). "Regulating Employment Precarity in Ontario Home Care", Labour / Le Travail, 86, 45–69, DOI: 10.1353/llt.2020.0036. |
| Bartkiw, Timothy J. (2018). "Deepening the Delusion in the Regulation of Temporary Help Agency Employment", 21:1 Canadian Labour and Employment Law Journal, 93-116. |
| Timothy J. Bartkiw, “Regulatory Differentials and Triangular Employment Growth in the U.S. and Canada,” Employee Rights and Employment Policy Journal, vol 19, Issue 1, 2015. |
| Timothy J. Bartkiw, "Labour Law and Triangular Employment Growth: A Theory of Regulatory Differentials", International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations, vol. 30, Issue 4 (2014). |
| Timothy J. Bartkiw, “Unions and Temporary Help Agency Employment in Canada,” Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations Vol 67, Issue 3, Summer 2012, 453-476. |
| Timothy J. Bartkiw, “Proceed with Caution or Stop Wherever Possible? Ongoing Paradoxes in Legalized Labour Politics,” Canadian Labour and Employment Law Journal, Vol. 15, 2010, pp.77-100. |
| Timothy J. Bartkiw, “Baby Steps? Towards the Regulation of Temporary Help Agency Employment in Canada”, Comparative Labor Law and Policy Journal, Vol. 31, issue 1, October 2009, 163-206. |
| Timothy J. Bartkiw, “Manufacturing Descent? Labour Law and Union Organizing in Ontario”, Canadian Public Policy, Vol. 34, No. 1, March 2008, pp. 111-131 |
| Parbudyal Singh, Timothy J. Bartkiw, and Zeljan Suster, “The Yugoslav Experience with Workers’ Councils: A Reexamination”, Labor Studies Journal, Vol. 32, No. 3, pp. 280-297, 2007. |
| Timothy J. Bartkiw and Felice Martinello, “Union Raiding and Organizing in Ontario”, Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 60(2), pp. 273-295, 2005. |
| Gene Swimmer and Tim Bartkiw, “The Future of Public Sector Bargaining in Canada”, Journal of Labor Research, 23(4),pp. 579-595, 2003. |
| Other Publications |
| Bartkiw, Timothy J. "A Review of Closing the Enforcement Gap: Improving Employment Standards Protections for People in Precarious Jobs, by Leah F. Vosko et al." International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations 37, no. 1 (2021): 95–104. |
| Timothy J. Bartkiw, Collective Bargaining, Strikes and Lockouts under the Labour Relations Act, 1995 (Queens Printer for Ontario, 2016)(Expert report commissioned by the Ontario government to support the Changing Workplaces Review labour/employment reform process in Ontario). Available at: https://cirhr.library.utoronto.ca/academic-research-projects. |
| Bartkiw, Timothy, J.. Review of The Fissured Workplace: Why Work Became So Bad For So Many And What Can Be Done To Improve It, by David Weil. Comparative Labor Law and Policy Journal, Vol. 36, issue 2, Winter 2015. |
| Timothy J. Bartkiw, “Temporary Help Agency Employment in the Federal Government”, in Bruce Doern and Chris Stoney, eds., How Ottawa Spends, 2010-2011, (Kingston: McGill-Queens University Press, 2010). |
| Timothy J. Bartkiw and Gene Swimmer, “Federal Public Sector Labour Relations: Business as Usual?” in Bruce Doern, ed., How Ottawa Spends, 2007-2008, (Kingston: McGill-Queens University Press, 2007). |
| Timothy J. Bartkiw and Gene Swimmer, “Provincial Policies Concerning Collective Bargaining”, in Christopher Dunn, ed., Provinces, Canadian Provincial Politics, 2nd Ed. (Peterborough: Broadview Press, 2006). |
| Timothy J. Bartkiw, “Labour Law and Union Certification Success Rates in Ontario,” in K.S. Devine and J.N. Grenier, eds., Selected Papers from the XLIth Annual CIRA Conference. Concord: Captus Press, 2005. |
| Current Undergraduate courses |
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| Advanced Issues in Labour and Employment Law, Ryerson University |
| Industrial Relations, Ryerson University |
| Advanced Industrial Relations, Ryerson University |
| Labour Law, Ryerson University |
| Past Undergraduate courses |
| Advanced Labour Law, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University |
| Employment Law and Industrial Relations, York University |
| Research Methods in Labour Studies, McMaster University |
| Legal Research in a Social Science Context, Carleton University |
| Past Graduate courses |
| Industrial Conflict Law, Osgoode Hall Law School Professional LLM in Labour and Employment Law |
| Law of Labour Relations, Centre for Industrial Relations, University of Toronto |
| Intergovernmental Relations, School of Public Policy and Administration, Carleton University |
| Year | Professional Affiliation |
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| 1996-Present | Barrister and Solicitor, Law Society of Upper Canada |