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The New Brunswick government has applied for a judicial review and a stay of a labour board decision ordering the province to rescind layoff notices for library workers in three school districts and reinstate the working hours of school administrative assistants.
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Allyson McCormack · CBC News
· Posted: Aug 22, 2025 3:40 PM EDT | Last Updated: 44 minutes ago
Finance Minister René Legacy says his department has applied for a judicial review and a stay of the labour board’s decision. (Mike Heenan/CBC)
The New Brunswick government has applied for a judicial review and a stay of a labour board decision ordering the province to reinstate library workers in three school districts.
The application was filed on Thursday after the Court of King’s Bench stepped in this week and issued a court order to the province that it follow last month’s ruling by the Labour Board and Employment Board.
In its decision on July 29, the board ordered the government to rescind layoff notices issued to library workers in Anglophone West, Anglophone South and Francophone South school districts.
The province was also ordered to reverse the decision to reduce the working hours of school administrative assistants.
Finance Minister René Legacy said in a statement the government filed the application on Thursday,
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