Dr. Timothy Bartkiw

Biography

Timothy J. Bartkiw is an associate professor in the Lincoln Alexander School of Law at Toronto Metropolitan University and the Department of Human Resources and Organizational Behaviour in the Ted Rogers School of Management. He is a member of the Bar of Ontario, and previously practiced law exclusively in the areas of labour and employment law. Bartkiw’s academic research interests span labour and employment law and policy and industrial relations. He teaches various courses in these areas at Ryerson. His current and past research includes the legal concept of the employer and employee, regulation of precarious work and employment, particularly triangular employment, regulation of collective action and unionization, the collective bargaining framework, and comparative labour and employment law. His research has been published in several international and domestic peer-reviewed academic journals. Bartkiw has also served as an expert academic advisor in labour and employment law review processes and was appointed to provide an expert report on the collective bargaining regime to support the recent Changing Workplaces Review labour law reform process in Ontario. He is a founding member of the Labour Law Casebook Group that co-edits a prominent labour and employment law textbook and serves as the director of the Ryerson Centre for Labour Management Relations.

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