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* Canada - Top court settles pivotal freight forwarding-logistics case
Ottawa,ONT,CAN -Today's Trucking -3 Dec 2009: -- The Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) has finally ruled on a critical case that could change how some freight forwarders, logistics companies, and hybrid highway carriers are governed under provincial and federal law... The Supreme Court effectively reversed a 1994 decision of the Canada Industrial Relations Board, which deemed that freight forwarders fall under federal employment standards if they physically "handle" interprovincial freight, regardless of the localized structure of their networks or whether or not they transport cargo from one jurisdiction to another... Most transport companies -- particularly marine, air, rail and a majority of linehaul carriers -- perform interprovincial transportation and thereby fall under Ottawa’s jurisdiction... The definition of a freight forwarder, though, has been left unsettled until now. As a result, certain firms could be considered provincial if their active role was merely limited to the local organization and distribution of interprovincial freight... (Photo from chslogistics: Freight Forwarding: CHS Logistics)
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