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Another BC Supreme Court case has awarded punitive damages for the conduct of the employer.

Federally-regulated employers may soon be seeing changes to privacy and human rights laws in relation to genetic information.

So much for the rule of thumb that an employee should receive one month of notice for every year of service.

The Labour Relations Board has upheld BC Arbitrator Stan Lanyon’s decision in Sunrise Poultry Processors Ltd. v. United Food and Commercial Workers.

A discussion on the judicial decision in a recent case, where a BC employer has successfully defended a claim for constructive dismissal despite taking away supervisory duties and moving the employee from an office to a cubicle.

This poster lays out key ESA standards and directs employees how to learn more about their rights.

The Ontario Human Rights Commission published a new comprehensive Policy on preventing discrimination because of Gender Identity and Gender Expression.

Yes, an employee can recover for damage to his reputation caused by the manner of termination of his employment. This is not a surprising outcome based on the principles established by the Wallace decision of the Supreme Court of Canada.

The long-awaited arbitration decision is in, and the result is a loss for random alcohol and drug testing.

Most employees are covered by the Act. There are only limited exclusions of professionals and some employees in job creation or training programs.

On August 15, 2018, the Superior Court of Quebec issued a judgment in which it concluded that the plaintiff, a bus carrier engaged in school and chartered transportation, fell under provincial jurisdiction.

The start of an employment relationship is, in some respects, like the start of a romantic relationship.

In our blog post on June 7, 2023, we outlined Ontario's new licensing regime for temporary help agencies ("THA") and recruiters. Since then, the Government of Ontario created this webpage to help guide...

A judge in BC has ruled that a unilateral change to an employee’s bonus was constructive dismissal: "Piron v. Dominion Masonry".

Bill 229, Working for Workers Six Act, 2024 is now law. The bill, which was introduced on November 27, 2024, received Royal Assent yesterday, December 19, 2024. Bill 229 built on the government's five prior.

We recently came across this new Ontario human rights decision in the course of advising an Alberta employer on an employee child care issue.

On November 6, 2014, Hydro-Québec Distribution ("HQD") publicly opened the sealed bids received in response to its request for proposals launched on December 18, 2013, for the purchase of 450MW of wind power produced in Québec.